Paramount Pictures - Filmography. Join IMDb Pro for more details! DRIVE TIME: MILES OF GREAT MUSIC Take some great classical music along on your next road trip with these four new collections from. Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Malibu for sale, Chevrolet Malibu Classifieds, Buy and Sell Chevrolet Malibu, Chevrolet Malibu sales, Chevrolet Malibu dealer. The Dead Rock Stars Club, an extensive list of dead rock stars and people related to rock, when and how they died with links to sites about them - The 1970s. McKinney's Cotton Pickers discography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 1000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of.Starts Thursday! It gives me great pleasure to introduce guest contributor Michelle Vogel who recently published the latest in her long line of Hollywood biographies: Lupe Velez: The Life and Career of Hollywood’s “Mexican Spitfire.” Labeling Michelle as prolific could be the understatement of the century. During my one- year of research and two years of writing, I uncovered the truth, not only about her death, but about her life, too. There was a massive pile of lies to sort through first, and it wasn’t easy, but with the help of Lupe’s second cousin, the right jigsaw pieces came together and the parts that didn’t fit within the puzzle were tossed to the side, where I hope they’ll stay – forever! She was no angel, and she often called herself “a devil,” but there were no evil intentions about her. Quite the contrary, she was kind, generous and loyal. Her off- screen persona was just as exciting as any character she played. The newspapers loved her, and her romances were the talk of tinseltown, and beyond. A long term, tumultuous relationship with Gary Cooper ended after several years (they met on the film Wolf Song), and her only marriage to Johnny “Tarzan” Weissmuller was fraught with problems from the very beginning, and the fact that they made it to their fifth wedding anniversary before divorcing, or killing each other, is a miracle! During her relationship with actor, Harald Ramond, she got pregnant. As she saw it, there were two ways out of her predicament – marriage! Due to Ramond’s reluctance to make an honest woman of her, she chose the latter. Despite the fact that Ramond emphatically claimed that it was all a misunderstanding and that he loved her and he did intend to marry her, it was too little, too late. Lupe Velez was dead, and Harald Ramond was the reason! He returned to Europe and was barely heard from again. Eighty Seconal pills washed down with a glass of brandy took the life of her unborn child. Suddenly, the world knew that the woman who didn’t care what anyone thought of her or her antics had a breaking point. The shame of an unplanned pregnancy, and out of wedlock, was too much for her to bear. Not necessarily commercially available, but easily accessible via collectors and websites that deal in classic films. The eight- film “Mexican Spitfire” series is a great start for anyone unfamiliar with her work. Perfect for the entire family, the entire set is available from TCM and WBShop for less than $4. An absolute bargain! Michelle Vogel is a Hollywood historian and the author of a number of non- fiction books relating to the stars of silent and classic films. Her in- depth research allows her readers to see her subjects as the real people who existed in the . Her blog can be viewed on Wordpress and ordering information for her earlier works on Olive Thomas, Gene Tierny, and others are available from Mc. Farland. Slide image for Wolf Song courtesy of Jessica Rosner. All other slide images courtesy of Matt and Michelle Vogel.
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