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Mexican Spitfire (1940)

Mexican Spitfire poster
Directed by
Leslie Goodwins
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 07m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A fiery Mexican singer moves to New York for a radio job and sets her sights on a man from an ad agency. The movie follows her antics as she pursues him.

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What happens

Mexican Spitfire is a 1940 American comedy film starring Lupe Vélez. She 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. The film was the sequel of the film The Girl from Mexico (1939) and was the first of a film series of seven more films with the same title and main characters. A sneak preview of the film in December 1939 prompted RKO to order three more in the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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