140: Lupe Velez (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 14)
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Lupe Lupe - A Film Review
Lupe played a wide variety of characters across her few silent films. She had been speaking english since she first went to a convent school in texas at age 12. On screen, she would sometimes sound extra foreign thanks to the pigeon english in which many of her parts were written. Her best films slyly reveal the extent to which this was put on in the precode yarn hell harbor.
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