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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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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Lupe Vélez (redirect from The Mexican Spitfire)
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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Mexican Spitfire at Sea is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts and Jerry Cady. It is the fourth film...
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Mexican Spitfire's Elephant is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts. It is the sequel to the 1942...
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Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost is a 1942 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts and Monte Brice. It is the sequel...
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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'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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English-language film debut, and written by John Brancato, Josh Olson and Halley Gross. It is produced by Thunder Road Films and Lady Spitfire. It also stars...
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The Mexican Spitfire's Baby is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Charles E. Roberts and Jerome Cady. It is the sequel...
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HMS Spitfire. Since the late 1930s, however, the word has been more famously associated with the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft and the Mexican Spitfire...
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La Zandunga is a 1938 Mexican romantic drama film directed by Fernando de Fuentes and starring the "Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Vélez. In a little town around...
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The Mexican Spitfires were an Australian indie rock–indie pop band formed in 1986. The original lineup consisted of Price Conlan on drums, Stephen McCowage...
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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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Bosley (1942-06-26). "' Ship Ahoy,' a Mild Summer Musical Film, at Capitol -- 'Mexican Spitfire at Sea,' at the Palace". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331...
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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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Marion Martin (category American film actresses)
by Clark Gable. She played secondary roles in three Lupe Vélez "Mexican Spitfire" films in the early 1940s, and was a comic foil for the Marx Brothers...
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as their fight takes its toll on the city. An F/A-18 Hornet piloted by Spitfire assists Red in taking the monster down. Red, however, is arrested for disobeying...
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Leon Errol (category American male film actors)
Errol's next-to-last film, reprised his famous characterization (and some of the gags) introduced in the 1939 feature Mexican Spitfire. Footage from Errol's...
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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 Battle of...
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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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project was first set up in 2004 by Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, partners at Spitfire Pictures. They were inspired by a Frontline documentary about how changes...
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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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Elisabeth Risdon (category English film actresses)
Live on Danger (1942) - Mrs. Morrell Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942) - Aunt Della Lindsay Mexican Spitfire's Elephant (1942) - Aunt Della Lindsay...
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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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Linda Hayes (actress) (category American film actresses)
Pictures. She appeared in the films The Girl from Mexico, The Spellbinder, Conspiracy, Sued for Libel, Mexican Spitfire, Millionaire Playboy, Millionaires...
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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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Charles "Buddy" Rogers (category American male film actors)
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941) - Dennis Lindsay Sing for Your Supper (1941) - Larry Hays Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942) - Dennis Lindsay Mexican Spitfire...
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protocole Vogel p.196-97 Vogel, Michelle. Lupe Velez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's Mexican Spitfire. McFarland, 2012. Juanita at IMDb v t e v t e...
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