The Girl from Mexico

The Girl from Mexico
The Girl from Mexico
Directed by	Leslie Goodwins
Written by	Lionel Houser; Joseph Fields
Produced by	Robert Sisk
Starring	Lupe Vélez; Donald Woods; Leon Errol; Linda Hayes; Donald MacBride; Edward Raquello
Cinematography	Jack MacKenzie
Edited by	Desmond Marquette
Music by	Albert Hay Malotte; Harry Tierney; Roy Webb
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date	June 2, 1939;
Running time	71 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Girl from Mexico is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Lionel Houser and Joseph Fields. The film stars Lupe Vélez, who plays a hot-headed, fast-talking Mexican singer taken to New York for a radio gig, who decides she wants the ad agency man for herself.

This low-budget film's unexpected box-office success resulted in a sequel, Mexican Spitfire, and eventually a film series of seven films all together. All eight were directed by Goodwins, used venerable comedian Leon Errol as a comic foil, and showcased Vélez's comic persona, indulging in broken-English malapropisms, troublemaking ideas, sudden fits of temper, occasional songs, and bursts of Spanish invective. The film was released June 2, 1939, by RKO Radio Pictures.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Denny Lindsay, a radio man, brings back a singer, Carmelita Fuenes, from Mexico.

Cast

Lupe Vélez as Carmelita Fuentes
Donald Woods as Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay
Leon Errol as Uncle Matthew 'Matt' Lindsay
Linda Hayes as Elizabeth Price
Donald MacBride as L. B. Renner
Edward Raquello as Tony Romano
Elisabeth Risdon as Aunt Della Lindsay
Ward Bond as Mexican Pete, the Wrestler

References

^ "The Girl from Mexico (1939) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-06-12.
^ Nugent, Frank S. (2015). "The-Girl-from-Mexico - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2015-06-12.

External links

The Girl from Mexico at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
The Girl from Mexico at IMDb
The Girl from Mexico at the TCM Movie Database
The Girl from Mexico at AllMovie

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[1] "The Girl from Mexico (1939) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2015-06-12.

[2] Nugent, Frank S. (2015). "The-Girl-from-Mexico - Trailer - Cast - Showtimes". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14. Retrieved 2015-06-12.

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