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Lupita Tovar: The Sweetheart of Mexico
Lupita Tovar had a short acting career during a long life, one that lasted 106 years. Passing away on the 12th of November 2016, Tovar was one of the surviving links to Old Hollywood.
Between 1929 and 1952, she appeared in many supporting and bit parts.
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Yet Tovar was best known for her role in the Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931) and Santa (1932), one of the first talkies in the burgeoning Mexican cinema. At 5’1”, Tovar was short and sensual. Underneath pencil-thin eyebrows, her eyes were as dark as her wavy black hair, which flowed forth from her head in tight ringlets.
In these two films she exudes a refined elegance and a confident sexuality, a shy naivety and a self-possessed worldliness.
Since its re-release in the 1990s, George Melford’s Dracula has grown in stature. It’s better than Tod Browning’s better-known version, although no one can rival Bela Lugosi, let alone Carlos Villarías, for iconography.
Nevertheless, Melf