Lupe Velez's suicide

Oh, you know, probably over some guy.....

She was pregnant. The babydaddy wouldn't marry her, she thought abortion was long, and an out of wedlock pregnancy would have killed what was left of her career. Plus she was getting too old to be a starlet, soon she'd age out of her job, and would have to face the ordeal of supporting a kid as an unemployed and unemployable has-been.

Any other questions?

The "babydaddy" as you call him had agreed to marry her for proprietys sake. She was well acustomed to being past the starlet stage. She lived passionately. She died on her own terms.

She was funny in Mexican Spitfire.

I really don't understand why she didn't do more Mexican cinema. Dolores Del Rio had a great career in Mexico after leaving Hollywood.

I read she was a bitch did she ever meet fellow bitch Miss Lessuer?

Was the babydaddy the Tidy-Bowl man?

She was probably borderline. A lot of actresses are. Hello Angelina! You take care now...

Not only will around 70 percent of those diagnosed with BPD attempt suicide, but around 8 percent to 10 percent will succeed in taking their own lives.

I thought she did great in Zandunga opposite hottie Arturo De Cordova. I love the Southern Mexican culture which most Americans don't know about. I know this is an insult to Lupe, but she reminds me of Eva Longoria. lol

Zandunga, don't tell me she doesn't look like Longoria....

She slept around a lot and got pregnant and none of the potential fathers wanted to hook up with her the long term. She was seen just as a good lay, party girl. They’re no fun pregnant and growing old.

Were there actresses who didn't sleep around? Marjorie Main?

Marie Dressier: NYMPHO

She was also age 36 and had been making films for about two decades.

It was unlikely her star was going to climb higher. She was on her way down, and hadn't risen that far to begin with.

Murder, most foul.

Bitch was always envious of my career.

Was she the one that drowned vomiting in the toilet?

r9 are you kidding? She looks nothing like Eva. She's pale with angular features. Eva's tan with more rounded features.

She looks like Eva to me.

Errol Flynn fucked her. But then so did most the Hollywood studs of the day .

Lupe wasn’t exactly marriage material. So any baby she shad would be doomed to be a bastard.

I can't remember a single film she was in.

Little Latin Lupe Lu. There was a pic of the baby daddy, Harold Ramond, in one of the Hollywood Babylon books. He was standing in front of her coffin looking downcast. (and relieved.) A very handsome boy toy type.

Found it!

I think younger generations became acquainted with her and the toilet-related suicide through Frasier. At least I did.

Or "The Simpsons"

Got to 2:23 for the Lupe Velez reference in the above video.

Good Lord! I just took a look at her Wiki page and the woman was voracious and volatile. She had just about every notable man of the era, including the author All Quiet on the Western Front. And poor Gary Cooper. Wasn't he known as a mild mannered guy?

[quote]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. While he was boarding the train, Vélez showed up at the train station and fired a pistol at him.[33]

^I should have said notable men in Hollywood.

This is the one that actually drowned.

R6, fuck you're old! Even I had to look that one up! Hopefully all your junk still works and your toes haven't shifted like tectonic plates.

The drowned-in-the-toilet story is a Kenneth Anger fabrication. He made up a lot of stuff in that lurid Hollywood Babylon book.

R28, not R6, but since that commercial was in the late 70's, that means R6 may only be in his 40's. Is that "old"?

R28 is 13 years old.