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bby holman holman was also irritated by the attention vélez garnered from the show with her impressions of several actresses including gloria swanson katharine hepburn and shirley temple 24 the feud came to a head during a performance in new haven connecticut after vélez punched holman between curtain calls and gave her a black eye the feud effectively ended the show 25 upon her return to mexico city in 1938 to star in her first mexican film vélez was greeted by ten thousand fans the film la zandunga directed by fernando de fuentes co starring mexican actor arturo de córdova was a critical and financial success and vélez was slated to appear in four more mexican films she instead returned to los angeles and went back to work for rko 26 continued success and final roles 1939 44 edit vélez with leon errol in mexican spitfire 1940 in 1939 vélez was cast with leon errol and donald woods in the girl from mexico despite being a low budget b picture it was a hit with audiences and rko re teamed her with errol and woods for the sequel mexican spitfire that film was also a success and led to a series of spitfire films eight in all in the series vélez portrays carmelita lindsay a temperamental yet friendly mexican singer married to dennis denny lindsay woods an elegant american advertising executive the spitfire films rejuvenated vélez s career moreover they were films in which a latina headlined for eight movies straight a true rarity 27 lupe vélez was hollywood s number one latina by this time and producer director mark sandrich asked her to headline a live stage show in ensenada mexico this was in preparation for the hollywood victory caravan tour and the march 22 1942 show featured many of the caravan participants laurel and hardy james cagney desi arnaz lucille ball and joan bennett among others vélez emceed the show as well addressing the audience of 2 500 mexican servicemen in spanish 28 in addition to the mexican spitfire series she was cast in other musical and comedy features for rko universal pictures and columbia pictures some of these films were six lessons from madame la zonga with leon errol 1941 playmates with john barrymore 1941 and redhead from manhattan 1943 the last film has vélez playing the dual role of a broadway star and her visiting twin sister and offers the viewer a rare chance to hear lupe vélez s actual speaking voice she plays the visiting sister with her customary exaggerated mexican accent but plays the actress with her own gently inflected voice betraying only a trace of an accent in 1943 the final film in the spitfire series mexican spitfire s blessed event was released by that time the mistaken identity scripts and situations had been repeating themselves and the novelty of the series had begun to wane 26 but vélez s energy and errol s clowning never flagged vélez co starred with eddie albert in a 1943 romantic comedy ladies day about an actress and a baseball player in 1944 vélez returned to mexico to star in an adaptation of émile zola s novel nana which was well received it would be her final film after filming wrapped vélez returned to los angeles and began preparing for another stage role in new york 26 personal life edit public image and personality edit vélez in mexican spitfire 1940 throughout her career vélez s onscreen persona of a hot tempered lusty wild woman was closely tied to her off screen personality 29 the press often referred to her by such names as the mexican spitfire the mexican it girl and the mexican kitten 26 publicly promoted with the whoopee lupe persona that tried to define her she dismissed the idea that she was uncontrollably wild 27 in an interview she said what i attribute my success i think simply because i m different i m not beautiful but i have beautiful eyes and know exactly what to do with them although the public thinks that i m a very wild girl actually i m not i m just me lupe vélez simple and natural lupe if i m happy i dance and sing and acted like a child and if something irritates me i cry and sob someone called that personality the personality is nothing more than behave with others as you really are if i tried to look and act like norma talmadge the great dramatic actress or like corinne griffith the aristocrat of the movies or like mary pickford the sweet and gentle mary i would be nothing more than an imitation i just want to be myself lupe vélez 30 vélez s off screen behavior blurred the line between her onscreen persona and her real personality after her death journalist bob thomas recalled that vélez was a lively part of the hollywood scene who wore loud clothing and made as much noise as possible 31 she attended boxing matches every friday night at the hollywood legion stadium and would stand on her ringside seat and scream at the fighters 32 vélez s temper and jealousy in her often tempestuous romantic relationships were well documented and became tabloid fodder often overshadowing her career vélez was straightforward with the press and was regularly contacted by gossip columnists for stories about her romantic exploits 31 33 one such incident included vélez chasing her lover gary cooper around with a knife during an argument and cutting him severely enough to require stitches 34 after their breakup vélez attempted to shoot cooper while he boarded a train 35 during her marriage to actor johnny weissmuller stories of their frequent physical fights were regularly reported in the press vélez reportedly inflicted scratches bruises and love bites on weissmuller during their fights and passionate love making 36 37 vélez often targeted fellow actresses whom she deemed rivals professionally or otherwise a habit which began back in her vaudeville days and continued in films vélez s image was that of a wild highly sexualized woman who spoke her mind and was not considered a lady while fellow mexican actress dolores del río projected herself as sensual but elegant and restrained often hailing from aristocratic roots 29 vélez hated del río and called her a bird of bad omen del río was terrified to meet her in public places when this happened vélez was scathing and aggressive vélez openly mimicked del río ironically making fun of her elegance 38 vélez also disliked marlene dietrich whom she suspected of having an affair with gary cooper while filming morocco in 1930 39 her rivalries with jetta goudal lilyan tashman and libby holman were well documented 40 in retaliation vélez would perform wicked impersonations of the women she disliked at hollywood parties 41 she made these imitations part of her comic repertoire exaggerating the facial and vocal mannerisms of marlene dietrich fanny brice gloria swanson katharine hepburn simone simon and shirley temple relationships and marriage edit lupe vélez was involved in several highly publicized and often stormy relationships upon arriving in los angeles she was linked to actors tom mix charlie chaplin and clark gable 35 her first long term high profile relationship was with gary cooper vélez and cooper met while filming 1929 s wolf song and began a two year relationship that was passionate and often stormy 42 when angered vélez was reported to have physically assaulted cooper cooper eventually ended the relationship in mid 1931 at the behest of his mother alice who after meeting her strongly disapproved of vélez 33 with plans to marry him gone she spoke to the press in 1931 i turned cooper down because his parents didn t want me to marry him and because the studio thought it would injure his career now it s over i m glad i feel so free i must be free i know men too well they are all the same no if you love them they want to be boss i will never have a boss 33 the rocky relationship had taken its toll on cooper who had lost 45 pounds and was suffering from nervous exhaustion paramount pictures ordered him to take a vacation to recuperate and while he was boarding the train vélez showed up at the station and fired a pistol at him 34 after her breakup with cooper vélez began a short lived relationship with actor john gilbert they began dating in late 1931 while gilbert was separated from his third wife ina claire 43 rumors of an engagement were fueled by the couple 44 but gilbert ended the relationship in early 1932 and attempted to reconcile with claire 35 43 vélez and johnny weissmuller photographed shortly after their wedding in october 1933 shortly thereafter vélez met tarzan actor johnny weissmuller while the two were in new york they dated on and off when they returned to los angeles while vélez also dated actor errol flynn 45 on october 8 1933 vélez and weissmuller were married in las vegas 46 there were reports of domestic violence and public fights 31 in july 1934 after ten months of marriage vélez filed for divorce citing cruelty she withdrew the petition a week later after reconciling with weissmuller 47 on january 3 1935 she filed for divorce a second time and was granted an interlocutory decree 48 that decree was dismissed when the couple reconciled a month later in august 1938 vélez filed for divorce for a third time again charging weissmuller with cruelty their divorce was finalized in august 1939 49 after the divorce became final vélez began dating actor polo player guinn big boy williams in late 1940 they got engaged 50 but never married 51 52 in late 1941 she became involved with author erich maria remarque actress luise rainer recalled that remarque told her with the greatest of glee that he found vélez s volatility wonderful when he recounted to her an occasion where vélez became so angry with him that she took her shoe off and hit him with it 53 after dating remarque vélez was linked to boxers jack johnson and jack dempsey 35 in 1943 vélez began an affair with her la zandunga co star arturo de córdova de córdova had recently moved to los angeles after signing with paramount despite the fact that de córdova was married to mexican actress enna arana with whom he had four children vélez granted an interview to gossip columnist louella parsons in september 1943 and announced that the two were engaged she told parsons that she planned to retire after marrying de córdova to cook and keep house 54 vélez ended the engagement in early 1944 after de córdova s wife refused to give him a divorce vélez then met and began dating a struggling young austrian actor named harald maresch whose stage name was harald ramond in september 1944 she discovered she was pregnant with ramond s child she announced their engagement in late november 1944 55 on december 10 four days before her death vélez announced she had ended the engagement and kicked ramond out of her home 56 death edit on the evening of december 13 1944 vélez dined with two friends the silent film star estelle taylor and venita oakie 57 in the early morning hours of december 14 vélez retired to her bedroom where she consumed 75 seconal pills and a glass of brandy 58 her secretary beulah kinder said that she found the actress s body on her bed later that morning 59 a suicide note addressed to harald ramond was found nearby it read to harald may god forgive you and forgive me too but i prefer to take my life away and our baby s before i bring him with shame or killing him lupe 60 on the back of the note vélez wrote how could you harald fake such a great love for me and our baby when all the time you didn t want us i see no other way out for me so goodbye and good luck to you love lupe 61 the day after vélez s death harald ramond told the press that he was so confused by vélez s suicide and claimed that even though the two had broken up he had agreed to marry vélez 62 he admitted that he once asked vélez to sign an agreement stating that he was only marrying her to give the baby a name but claimed he only did so because he and vélez had had a fight and he was in a terrible temper actress estelle taylor who was with vélez from 9 00 the previous night until 3 30 the morning vélez died told the press that vélez had told her of her pregnancy but said she would rather kill herself than have an abortion 59 63 beulah kinder vélez s secretary later told investigators that after vélez broke off the relationship with ramond she planned to go to mexico to have her baby kinder said vélez soon changed her mind after concluding that ramond faked the relationship and considered having an abortion 64 the day after vélez s death the los angeles county coroner requested that an inquest be opened to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death 64 on december 16 the coroner dropped the request after determining that vélez had written the notes and that she had intended to kill herself 55 on december 22 a funeral for vélez was held at the mortuary at forest lawn memorial park in los angeles 65 among the pallbearers were vélez s ex husband johnny weissmuller and actor gilbert roland 66 after the service vélez s body was sent by train to mexico city where a second service was held on december 27 67 her body was then interred at panteón civil de dolores cemetery 68 alternative theories and urban legend edit publicity image for an argentinean magazine 1933 despite the coroner s ruling that vélez died by suicide to avoid the shame of bearing an illegitimate child some authors have speculated that this was not entirely true in the book from bananas to buttocks the latina body in popular film and culture rosa linda fregoso wrote that vélez was known for her defiance of contemporary moral convention and that it seems unlikely that she could not have reconciled having a child out of wedlock fregoso believes that in the final year of her life vélez exhibited signs of extreme mania and depression fregoso goes on to speculate that vélez s death may have been the result of an untreated mental illness such as bipolar disorder 69 robert slatzer who later claimed to have been secretly married to marilyn monroe 70 claimed that a few weeks before vélez s death he interviewed her at her home and she confided in him that she was pregnant with gary cooper s child by that time cooper was married to socialite veronica rocky balfe 71 72 according to slatzer vélez said that cooper refused to acknowledge the child believing that harald ramond was the father after vélez died slatzer said he asked cooper about the situation and cooper confirmed that it was possible he might have been the father slatzer further claimed that he also interviewed clara bow who had also dated cooper in the 1920s who revealed that shortly before vélez s death cooper called her and screamed that he was going to kill harald ramond for impregnating vélez slatzer claimed that bow told him that she never believed vélez s baby was fathered by ramond and that she was convinced that vélez had attempted to get ramond to marry her to protect cooper s reputation biographer michelle vogel speculated that if cooper was the father his rejection of vélez and their child coupled with the idea of having to raise a child alone may...