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    Mexican Spitfire refers to a series of eight comedy films released by RKO Pictures between 1940 and 1943 starring Lupe Vélez and Leon Errol. The movies...
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    Mexican Spitfire is a 1940 American comedy film starring Lupe Vélez. She plays a hot-headed, fast-talking Mexican singer taken to New York for a radio...
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  • Roberts and Jerry Cady. It is the fourth film in the Mexican Spitfire series, which began in 1939. The film stars Lupe Vélez, Leon Errol, Charles "Buddy"...
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    Carmelita Fuentes in eight Mexican Spitfire films, a series created to capitalize on her fiery personality. Nicknamed The Mexican Spitfire by the media, Vélez's...
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    associated with the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft and the Mexican Spitfire film series, starring Lupe Vélez. Coote, p.156 Coote, p.157 Coote, p.182 Casa...
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  • Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event is a 1943 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts and Dane Lussier. It is...
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    Mexican Spitfire Out West is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts and Jack Townley. It is the sequel...
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  • Mexican Spitfire The Girl from Mexico (1939) Mexican Spitfire (1940) Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940) Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941) Mexican Spitfire...
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  • Charles E. Roberts (writer) (category Film directors from Ohio)
    film director. He worked on over a hundred short films and feature films. As a writer he is particularly noted for his work on the Mexican Spitfire series...
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    Lupe Vélez filmography (category Mexican filmographies)
    named Mexican Spitfire. The Spitfire films rejuvenated Vélez's career. She also made some films in Mexico. Vélez was one of the first Mexican actresses...
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    Irma Serrano (category Mexican film actresses)
    December 1933 – 1 March 2023) was a Mexican singer, actress and politician. Famous for her "tantalizing" "untamed spitfire" voice, she was one of the most...
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  • "Despite the usual 'Mexican Spitfire' series continues on with Lupe Velcez, but in this one there is no reference to the old 'Spitfire' tag. 'Ladies Day'...
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  • unexpected box-office success resulted in a sequel, Mexican Spitfire, and eventually a film series of seven films all together. All eight were directed by Goodwins...
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  • cockpits for filming in flight. A Yakovlev Yak-52TW was modified to resemble a Supermarine Spitfire, and two Supermarine Spitfire Mark IAs, a Spitfire Mark VB...
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  • 1930s. The later series cannon armed Spitfires used in the film were inaccurate, as the RAF had chiefly machine gun-armed Spitfire Mk I/IIs during the...
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    Leon Errol (category American male film actors)
    Work? (1937) - Brennan The Girl from Mexico (1939) - Uncle Matthew "Matt" Lindsay (first of the Mexican Spitfire series) Career (1939) - Mudcat Dancing Co-Ed...
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  • Leslie Goodwins (category English film directors)
    notably 27 features and shorts with Leon Errol, including the Mexican Spitfire series. His 1936 film Dummy Ache was nominated for an Academy Award in 1936 for...
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  • Triumph Spitfire In Top Gear, TV series, 2002–2015 (Triumph Herald 1200) In Final Destination 3 (2006), Triumph Spitfire In Legend, 2015 film featuring...
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  • following is a list of cast members and characters from the Transformers film series and the tie-in video games. The Autobots are the main protagonists of...
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    myth of the death of Lupe Velez Schroeder, Barbara (May 24, 2013). ""Mexican Spitfire" Mystery Solved After 7 Decades!". Huffington Post. Retrieved June...
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    Donald Woods (actor) (category American male film actors)
    notably the popular Mexican Spitfire series opposite Lupe Velez. He also occasionally played major roles in bigger feature films like A Tale of Two Cities...
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    Walter Reed (actor) (category American male film actors)
    Radio Pictures, including the last two Mexican Spitfire comedies (in which Reed replaced Buddy Rogers as the Spitfire's husband). Perhaps his most memorable...
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    Cecil Kellaway (category South African male film actors)
    David O. Selznick. He later made We Are Not Alone (1939). He was in Mexican Spitfire (1940) at RKO, The Invisible Man Returns (1940) and The House of the...
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  • Cliff Reid (category American film production company founders)
    producer, his last film for them being an installment of the Mexican Spitfire series, Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost. Other notable films on which Reid worked...
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  • March 1934 3 March David Harum 17 March Jimmy the Gent 30 March Riptide Spitfire 31 March Gambling Lady Wonder Bar April 1934 5 April You're Telling Me...
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    Barbara Hale (category Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners)
    dramatic television series Perry Mason (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised the...
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  • List of war films and TV specials List of World War II films List of films set in ancient Rome List of films set in ancient Greece List of films set in ancient...
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  • Lawless: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 30, 2016. "Mexican Spitfire: Detail View". American Film Institute. Retrieved January 30...
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  • Gordon Buford. The film is the first installment in the Herbie film series. The film follows the adventures of a sentient Volkswagen Beetle named Herbie...
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  • feature films or miniseries which feature events of World War II in the narrative. There is a separate list of World War II TV series. The film or miniseries...
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