Mexican actress Lupe Velez was the victim of one of Anger’s cruelest invented stories. His fabrication of her manner of death lays bare a vicious racism in addition to Hollywood Babylon’s usual sexism. Today we will sort out the fact of Velez’s life from Anger’s fiction and consider the star of the Mexican Spitfire series as a comedienne ahead of her time.
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140: Lupe Velez (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 14) | You Must Remember This podcast - Listen or read transcript on Metacast
