The Girl from Mexico (1939)

Directed by

Leslie Goodwins

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 11m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A hot-headed Mexican singer goes to New York for a radio job. She then sets her sights on winning over the ad man who hired her.

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What happens

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 eight 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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