Lupita Tovar

Lupita Tovar

Born: July 27, 1910
Died: November 12, 2016
in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico
Guadalupe Natalia Tovar, known as Lupita Tovar (July 27, 1910, Matías Romero Avendaño, Mexico - November 12, 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA), was a Mexican-American actress. Among her most important works as an actress, her participation in the films stands out: "Dracula", which was the Hispanic version of the original film and "Santa", considered the first sound film in Mexico.

Movies for Lupita Tovar...

Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Title: Cinema's Exiles: From Hitler to Hollywood
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Eight hundred German filmmakers (cast and crew) fled the Nazis in the 1930s. The film uses voice-overs, archival footage, and film clips to examine Berlin's vital filmmaking in the 1920s; then it follows a producer, directors, composers, editors, writers, and actors to Hollywood: some succeeded and many found no work. Among those profiled are Erich Pommer, Joseph May, Ernst Lubitsch, Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Peter Lorre. Once in Hollywood, these exiles helped each other, housed new arrivals, and raised money so others could escape. Some worked on anti-Nazi films, like Casablanca. The themes and lighting of German Expressionism gave rise in Hollywood to film noir.
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Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Title: Hedy Lamarr: Secrets of a Hollywood Star
Released: January 21, 2006
Type: Movie
"Secrets of a Hollywood Star" is another documentary made after "Calling Hedy Lamarr" in 2006. It features interviews with Hedy's friends in both Europe and Hollywood and her film/studio partners.
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The Road to 'Dracula'
Title: The Road to 'Dracula'
Character: Self
Released: December 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A documentary from Universal about the movie "Dracula" (1931) starring Bela Lugosi.
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Universal Horror
Title: Universal Horror
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: October 8, 1998
Type: Movie
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Title: Vampires: Thirst for the Truth
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A documentary that explores man's enduring fascination with the vampire legend by examining historical accounts, literary works, and as they are portrayed in film and television.
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The Crime Doctor's Courage
Title: The Crime Doctor's Courage
Character: Dolores Bragga
Released: February 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A criminal psychiatrist investigates the murder of a two-time widower.
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Gun to Gun
Title: Gun to Gun
Character: Dolores Diego
Released: January 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Don Diego is a large ranch owner, the uncle of Dolores and the guardian of a young American, Steve Randall. Steve has just delivered a large herd of cattle to the ranch, where Don Diego has just found out that he must pay the local tax commissioner, Harkness a fine for unpaid taxes on a herd of over one-thousand cattle. Steve offers to drive the cattle to the commissioners office, even though he fells the fine is unjust. Arriving at the office, Steve learns that Harkness (who he has never met), who has a reputation for dishonesty, is out. Dropping by the cantina, Steve gets into a fight with Harkness, and Harkness swears vengeance on Steve, especially after Steve stampedes the cattle through the town.
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Miguel Strogoff
Title: Miguel Strogoff
Character: Nadia Fedorova
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A Russian courier has to deliver a message from the Czar to the Grand Duke across enemy lines .On the way he encounters adventures and colorful characters.
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Two Gun Sheriff
Title: Two Gun Sheriff
Character: Nita
Released: April 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A notorious outlaw is recruited by a cattle buyer, secret boss of a gang of cattle rustlers, to impersonate the town sheriff, who is the outlaw's twin brother; and complications ensue, as the sheriff, now a hostage, is on the eve of his marriage while the outlaw's cantina-dancer girlfriend has followed him to town and is at risk of exposing him.
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The Westerner
Title: The Westerner
Character: Teresita (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it by claiming to be a friend of stage star Lillie Langtry, with whom the judge is obsessed, even though he has never met her. Tensions rise when Harden comes to the defense of a group of struggling homesteaders who Judge Bean is trying to drive away.
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Green Hell
Title: Green Hell
Character: Native Girl
Released: January 26, 1940
Type: Movie
A group of adventurers head deep into South American jungle in search of an ancient Incan treasure.
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South of the Border
Title: South of the Border
Character: Dolores Mendoza
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A federal agent and his partner hang out in Mexico to check a revolution.
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Tropic Fury
Title: Tropic Fury
Character: Maria Scipio
Released: September 1, 1939
Type: Movie
An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation.
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The Fighting Gringo
Title: The Fighting Gringo
Character: Anita del Campo
Released: August 8, 1939
Type: Movie
A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.
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Blockade
Title: Blockade
Character: Palm Reader
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A simple peasant is forced to take up arms to defend his farm during the Spanish Civil War. Along the way he falls in love with a Russian girl whose father is involved in espionage.
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María
Title: María
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The story narrates the idyllic and tragic love between María and her cousin Efraín, both natives of Valle del Cauca. In the middle of a romantic and bucolic landscape, the young characters fall in love with each other but circumstances prevent the full realization of their love.
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Rose Hobart
Title: Rose Hobart
Character: Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 9, 1936
Type: Movie
Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage editing, Hobart becomes a singular object of desire and dread, trapped in an exotic paradise.
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Marihuana El Monstruo Verde
Title: Marihuana El Monstruo Verde
Released: June 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Policeman goes undercover to bust drug-smuggling ring.
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The Invader
Title: The Invader
Character: Lupita Melez
Released: January 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
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Broken Lives
Title: Broken Lives
Character: Marcela
Released: March 25, 1935
Type: Movie
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Santa
Title: Santa
Character: Santa
Released: March 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Santa is a beautiful and very humble young girl living in Chimalistac, a small and quiet spot south of the 1930's Mexico City. After Santa is cheated by arrogant soldier Marcelino, she's rejected by her family and friends and expelled of Chimalistac. Santa finds shelter in a whorehouse and becomes a cinic and bitter woman, mistreated by bullfighter "Jarameno" and silently loved by blind pianist Hipólito.
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Border Law
Title: Border Law
Character: Tonita
Released: October 12, 1931
Type: Movie
When Shag Smith kills Jim's brother Bob, Jim and Thunder quit the rangers so they can cross the border and join Smith's gang. Jim's plan is to get the gang to cross back over the border where the rangers will be waiting.
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East of Borneo
Title: East of Borneo
Character: Neila
Released: August 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Mrs. Linda Randolph treks through darkened jungles to the land of Maradu to find her missing husband Allan, who'd left her years before when he believed she was in love with another. She finds Allan the drunken court physician to a devious prince-- Whose designs on the pair don't include a happy ending.
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Yankee Don
Title: Yankee Don
Character: Juanita
Released: May 17, 1931
Type: Movie
A crook on the run from the law in New York flees to Mexico, where he falls for a beautiful young Mexican girl and tries to help her father save the family estate from a gang of criminals.
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Carne de Cabaret
Title: Carne de Cabaret
Character: Drothy O'Neil
Released: May 8, 1931
Type: Movie
This is the Spanish-language version of Ten Cents a Dance (1931), shot concurrently with a different cast but the same director, Christy Cabanne (as "Wiliam Cabana"), and also Mexican director Eduardo Arozamena.
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Drácula
Title: Drácula
Character: Eva
Released: March 11, 1931
Type: Movie
At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula's castle in the Carpathian Mountains. After signing papers to take over a ruined abbey near London, Dracula drives Renfield mad and commands obedience. Renfield escorts the boxed count on a death ship to London. From there, the Count is introduced into the society of his neighbor, Dr. Seward, who runs an asylum. Dracula makes short work of family friend Lucia Weston, then begins his assault on Eva Seward, the doctor's daughter. A visiting expert in the occult, Van Helsing, recognizes Dracula for who he is, and there begins a battle for Eva's body and soul.
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The Cock-Eyed World
Title: The Cock-Eyed World
Character: Bit Part
Released: October 19, 1929
Type: Movie
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
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The Veiled Woman
Title: The Veiled Woman
Character: Young Girl
Released: April 14, 1929
Type: Movie
A woman tells a girl who's just been rescued from a notorious rake, four stories of men from her own life, one of whom she had to kill to protect herself.