Hollywood Cats
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Lupe Velez, c.1932
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One of only a handful of Mexican actors who achieved real success in Hollywood during the pre-war era, Velez went on to star in a series of hugely successful films. Known as the Mexican spitfire, her personal life was less successful. Sadly she was unable to cope with a series of failed relationships (including a tempestuous marriage to Johnny Weissmuller) and committed suicide in 1944 whilst pregnant
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Carole Lombard, Paramount Pictures, c.1932
Seen here posing with a black cat in a studio publicity shot Photograph by Eugene Robert Richee