Tovar was born on July 27, 1910, in the town of Matias Romero in the southern end of Mexico. Her father was Mexican and her mother Irish. A dark-haired beauty, she excelled at gymnastics and dance ...

Carlos Villarias became Count Dracula and Lupita Tovar — a young actress who’d recently moved from her home in Oaxaca, Mexico, to Hollywood — assumed the role of Mina, the film’s heroine ...

Lupita Tovar became a pioneer of Mexican cinema. Her career began in the silent film era. In 1931, she co-starred in Universal's Spanish-language version of Dracula. The actress Lupita Tovar has ...

Lupita Tovar, who has died aged 106, was thought to be the last surviving actress who starred as an adult in silent movies; she later appeared in Hispanic versions of Hollywood films and became ...

EXCLUSIVE: Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz will co-write and co-direct Spanish Dracula, the true story about how silent film star and Mexican actress Lupita Tovar found a second wind starring in ...

DEL BARCO: Villarias had been a stage actor in Spain, and his resemblance to Bela Lugosi was uncanny, recalled the late actress Lupita Tovar. She was just 20 when she played the lovely Eva ...

CHICAGO_ La actriz Lupita Tovar, una de las primeras mexicanas en actuar en Hollywood, falleció el 12 de noviembre a los 106 años en su casa de Los Ángeles, California. La noticia la dio a ...

Mexican screen siren Lupita Tovar has died at the age of 106. The actress starred in the 1931 Spanish-language version of “Dracula,” which was filmed simultaneously with the popular English ...

Lupita Tovar, the 1930s film actress who starred in the acclaimed Spanish-language version of Dracula and the first Mexican talkie, Santa, has died. She was 106. Born the oldest of nine in a poor ...

Lupita Tovar, the Mexican actress best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Dracula, died this weekend at her Los Angeles home. She was 106. According to the ...

Carlos Villarías and Lupita Tovar starred in the 1931 Spanish language version of Dracula. In 1931, Universal Studios shot its classic horror film Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi as the ...

Lupita Tovar, a Mexican-born actress who played a historic role in the country’s cinema and starred in the Spanish-language version of “Dracula,” died Saturday. She was 106. Her niece ...