#Mexican Hollywood

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Mexican actress Lupe Velez in a promotional portrait for Where East Is East, directed by Tod Browning, 1929.

[diana-andraste]

Dolores del Río, George Hoyningen-Huene, 1930

[thegothicalice]

Cozy spooky vibes in black & grey 🪦 Cardigan (Hot Topic) and dress gifted, boots off Amazon, cemetery gate necklace off Vampire Freaks, scythe earrings by The Deadly Stake, Mexican Black Kingsnake’s name is Havelock and he’s a very good sport about being an accessory for pictures.

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Maria Guadalupe known as Lupe Vélez

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Lupe Vélez

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Silvia Pinal, the legendary Mexican actress passed away today at the age of 93, bequeathing a career that can be summed up in one word: ART.

In the vast library of Latin American culture, Silvia Pinal is not just a chapter or an encyclopaedia: she is an entire bookshelf. Few figures have been so versatile, managing to cover every corner of culture: cinema, theatre, television, cabaret, painting, politics, music, dance... the list is endless.

Silvia Pinal was born on September 12, 1931, on the eve of the celebration of Mexican Independence Day, a direct descendant of father founder priest Hidalgo, her destiny was marked to become an icon of the country.

As a child she studied opera and acting at Bellas Artes. Before she was 18, she had already participated in a beauty pageant, acted in radio soap operas, dabbled in experimental theatre and played minor roles in films.

In the 1950s, she established herself as a central figure in our cinema. Her theatrical training allowed her to shine in dramatic roles, comedies and musicals. Between 1949 and 1959 she filmed 50 movies. In that period she won three Ariel awards and appeared on a hundred magazine covers. Diego Rivera immortalised her in a famous life-size portrait, a gift from the painter to the diva.

Silvia rejected Hollywood and went to Europe. In 1961 she starred in Luis Buñuel’s ‘Viridiana’. Her performance was awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes, but in Spain, the Franco dictatorship considered it blasphemous and ordered the film to be destroyed. The film survives to this day thanks to the fact that Silvia hid a copy in the lining of her coat.

A visionary, Silvia revolutionized theatre: ‘Mame’, ‘Hello Dolly!’, ‘Gypsy’... she brought the best Broadway musicals to Mexico. In 1988 she opened her first theatre: Teatro Silvia Pinal, and went on to have three more.

She had already done it all, but cabaret was still missing. In 1981 she debuted as a showgirl at the El Patio nightclub, where stars such as Judy Garland and Edith Piaf shone. Her show, directed by Sergio Japino, Raffaella Carrà’s choreographer, was a resounding success.

Rest in peace, Silvia Pinal Hidalgo (1931-2024). You are and will remain unique.

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Happy 58th Birthday To Stunning Mexican Actress

Salma Hayek (Born 2nd September 1966)

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Pioneering actor, Lupita Tovar (July 27, 1910 November 12, 2016)

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Dolores del Río in Picture Play, January 1930

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Raquel Welch (1968)

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Melissa Barrera is a beautiful new Latina actress. Not much famous latino actors are in Hollywood because whites usually get all or the best roles. POC gets to be sidekicks the best or the dumb and ugly ones. Whatever, that is a long story. This mexican girl lost her job in the scream movies because she did the right thing. Her character in the last scream movie was cool like her. I remember going to the movie theater and watching her movie because it was my birthday. I remember how a mean girl spilled her soda on her shirt and tried to fight with her in the middle of the streets.

Hollywood glamorizes the outcasts, freaks and martyrs. But, they go against everything in real life. Hypocrites. And Pro Israel actors are getting more fame by acting saintly.

we hardly get woc in positive and main female lead roles and this happens. I am sick of seeing women that doesn't look like me be female leads that gets a happy ending or marries the men they love. it makes me insecure. I am not latina. But, she is the closest actress who makes me feel comfortable in my skin. If that makes sense to you

[sunshineandlyrics]

🌮 A fan made Louis laugh with her sign about tacos "Rumours said you eat tacos with fork.. true or clickbait?" (He did look like he was eating tacos with a fork and knife last year) 🌮

FITFWT Hollywood, 13 July 2023 x

[noirgasmweetheart]

Last night for my 36th birthday, my brain gave me an amusing dream.

I dreamed that I was watching a pre-code movie from the early '30s, with Peter Lorre. It had that fuzzy quality of movies from that era. Peter looked like his curly-haired General from "Secret Agent," minus the mustache. (Younger than Joel Cairo though.) He was wearing a plain gray suit and black necktie. And he was heavily pregnant.

The (other) father was a guy who didn't seem to be any actor I recognized, just a generic costar. Thin white guy around the same age as Peter here, a few inches taller, in a gray suit with a fedora.

They were at the hospital because Pete was having contractions. Pete was sitting in some weird proto-motor-chair. Or something. Both men were alight with excitement, showing no concern over where or how the hell this baby was supposed to come out.

Although I've never heard of a movie with this specific plotline, a pregnant man does seem like something a pre-code movie might do for shock value, that the bigoted Hayes Code would forbid. And Peter seems like the type of actor who'd star in something like that.

As for why I would dream this....I've never been pregnant, but I did just moved into a new apartment with a gorgeous film noir look to it, and I'm excited to begin a new phase in my life and start several creative projects. I suppose the dream reflects that excitement.

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Katy Jurado

[jeanharlowshair]

Hollywood Magazine, December 1942.

[mourntomidnight]

I am 100% at the point where idc if trump wins again and idc if that means project 2025 becomes a reality because I’m Mexican I know how this shit goes when reading history and imo thinking about wwii and what I could’ve done in that era I am stating that even if fleeing the country is not feasible I would not want to do it anyway because I am completely emotionally and mentally prepared for joining a resistance group should a second trump term happens and our already fascist government becomes even more so because I truly am committed to fighting for liberation from the bs Christcuck capitalist American empire to enact a return to turtle island.