María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez, known professionally as Lupe Vélez, was a Mexican actress, dancer, and singer during the "Golden Age" of Hollywood films. Vélez began her career as a performer in Mexican vaudeville in the early 1920s.

Did Lupe Velez shoot Gary Cooper?

Married to the most famous Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, the makeup crew could not hide the bites Velez left on the actor's body. On one occasion, when the actress was engaged to the gallant Gary Cooper, she shot him with a gun to prevent him from leaving her.

Who was the Mexican Spitfire?

The movies featured the character of Carmelita Lindsay (Lupe Vélez), a sympathetic and temperamental Mexican singer who leaves her career and native country to meet Dennis Lindsay (Donald Woods in the first three, Charles "Buddy" Rogers in the next three, and Walter Reed in the final two), an elegant and handsome ...