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1943
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Substantially, Lupe Velez' Columbia vehicle Redhead from Manhattan was the same as her previous RKO starrers-boisterous,...
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Rita/Elaine Manners
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1943
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RKO brought its "Mexican Spitfire" saga to a close with the eighth film in the series, Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event. Lupe...
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Carmelita Lindsay
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1943
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Pepita Zorita
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1943
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The first "Mexican Spitfire" entry of 1942, Mexican Spitfire at Sea is set mainly on a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Combining...
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Carmelita Lindsay
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1942
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This raucous series entry reunites Lupe Velez as Carmelita (aka "The Mexican Spitfire") and Leon Errol as Uncle Matt, with...
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Carmelita Lindsay
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1942
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost looks more like a Columbia two-reel comedy than an RKO feature film. Star Lupe Velez, her...
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Carmelita Lindsay
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1942
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Even non-fans of RKO Radio's "Mexican Spitfire" series will garner a few healthy laughs from Mexican Spitfire's Baby. This...
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Carmelita Lindsay
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1941
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The much-maligned Playmates callously offers the appalling spectacle of a thoroughly dissolute John Barrymore in his final...
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Carmen del Torre
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1941
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To those under the age of 60, it should be noted that the title of this lively Universal filler was inspired by a popular...
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Madame La Zonga
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1941
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While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes...
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1941
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In this third of RKO's "Mexican Spitfire" series, star Lupe Velez doesn't get any further west than Reno, Nevada. Lupe feels...
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Carmelita Lindsay
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1940
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The titular girl is Lupe Velez, a tempestuous cabaret entertainer. Donald Woods plays a staid American ad man who hires her...
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Carmelita Lindsay
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1939
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The excellent response to RKO Radio's The Girl from Mexico prompted the studio to fashion an entire series based on the...
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1939
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This British musical comedy boasts one of the most eclectic casts in film history. Brash Wallace Ford and smoothie Ben Lyon...
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Carla de Huleva
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1937
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Juanita Morales
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1937
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The 1937 Spanish-language romantic drama La Zandunga unfolds against the backdrop of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec Fruit Fair,...
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a plucky gypsy travels to London with her lover, a captain of the guard masquerading as a musician....
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Mila
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1936
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In this racy comedy, a harem girl desiring to escape her life, stows away on the boat of a wealthy archaeologist as it sails...
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Carlotta
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1935
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Hollywood Party was planned as a lavish, star-studded MGM musical titled Hollywood Revue of 1933. Under the...
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Herself/Jaguar Woman
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1934
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1934
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There were very few laughs in this phlegmatic film adaptation of the Oliver LaFarge's Pulitzer Prize winning novel Laughing...
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Slim Girl
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1934
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Based on the popular comic strip by Ham Fisher, this fast-paced and funny boxing outing follows the exploits of a boxing...
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Nina Madero
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1934
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Six writers were involved in the RKO Radio musical comedy Strictly Dynamite; ironically, the plot concerns a radio comedian...
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Vera
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1934
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1933
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In this comedy, a pair of ex-Marines team up and get involved in a nightclub.Trouble ensues when they both fall in love with...
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Pepper
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1933
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In this western, a lovely Mexican woman falls in love with the gringo pilot whose plane crashed nearby. Unfortunately, her...
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Lolita
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1932
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A remake of West of Zanibar, this strange, gut-wrenching melodrama set in the African jungles, offers a disturbing portrait...
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Tula
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1932
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Teresita
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1932
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MGM had hopes of turning Metropolitan opera singer Lawrence Tibbett into a movie star, but Cuban Love Song brought this...
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Nanita
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1931
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Katusha Maslova
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1931
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Cecil B. DeMille's third remake of his debut film, this was the first sound version of Edwin Milton Royle's stage western...
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Naturich
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1931
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Even allowing for the comparative freedom of the pre-Production Code years, 1930's Hell Harbor was pretty strong meat for its...
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Anita Morgan
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1930
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Previously filmed in 1916 and 1922, Langdon McCormick's theatrical chestnut Men Without Skirts was pulled out of mothballs...
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Manette Fachard
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1930
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In this romantic adventure, a feisty young woman (Velez) toys with the affections of a railroad worker (Withers) and a...
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Rose
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1930
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In this romance, men board "The Love Boat" (no, not the TV boat) and set sail for China with the hope of buying a Chinese...
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Ming Toy
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1930
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If Hollywood gossip columnists can be believed, Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez were lovers -- and very passionate ones -- when...
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Lola Salazar
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1929
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Star Lon Chaney Sr. and director Tod Browning bade adieu to the silent-movie era with 1929's Where East is East. His face...
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Toyo Haynes
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1929
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Nanon del Rayon
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1929
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Jania
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1928
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Although this is one of the better early films from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, they have obviously not yet teamed up and...
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1927
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The Mountain Girl
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1927
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