
Lupita Tovar
actress, miscellaneous, soundtrack
- Birth name:
- Guadalupe Tovar
- Born:
- 1910-07-27, Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico
- Died:
- 2016-11-12, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Professions:
- actress, miscellaneous, soundtrack
Biography
Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lupita Tovar appeared first in silent Fox films before making the move to Universal and co-starring in the Spanish-language version of 1930's "The Cat Creeps" (La voluntad del muerto (1930)). For the same producer, Czech-born Paul Kohner, she appeared as Eva Seward (the Spanish-language counterpart of Helen Chandler's Mina) in Universal's Spanish Dracula (1931). In 1932, she married Kohner, who later became one of the top agents in Hollywood. (Their actress-daughter, Susan Kohner, was Oscar-nominated for her performance in Universal's 1959 Imitation of Life (1959); their son, Pancho Kohner, is a producer). Tovar gave up films in the 1940s and has been widowed since 1988.
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