Hell Harbor is a 1930 film starring Lupe Vélez. Nicknamed "Mexican Spitfire," she had quite a controversial life with many lovers. 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. Her first long-term, high-profile relationship was with Gary Cooper. After her breakup with Cooper, Vélez began a short-lived relationship with actor John Gilbert. She was married to Johnny Weissmuller for about five years. Her name was also linked to author Erich Maria Remarque and boxer Jack Dempsey. She killed herself at the age of 36. She is buried in Mexico City. I watched this movie on YouTube:
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Her short & rather tragic life sounds like a movie script.
ReplyDeleteYes, she seems to've lived a wild life.
Delete...she sure got around.
ReplyDeleteDidn't she!
DeleteShe sounds like quite the starlet. I wonder if she has a biography for those people who love to read about the dirt of others. Happy Monday Nita.
ReplyDeleteSurely there's been at least one bio of her life. She's hardly known now, though.
DeleteIt sounds like she lived a tragic life. It also sounds like she wasn't very happy in or with her life, or she would have been less apt to flit from man to man.
ReplyDeleteIf she'd've been a man her life would've been seen in an entirely different light I imagine.
DeleteI never heard of her, but her life reads a bit like Marilyn Monroe. Sad that these women were used/abused and ended their lives tragically
ReplyDeleteShe had her way through some of it, but in the end it seems she felt she was in a no-win situation
DeleteNever heard of her, will watch the film when I have time!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I saw her in action :) so to speak lol
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