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 ...

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 ...

Carlos Villarías as Dracula, with actress Lupita Tovar, in the Spanish-language 1931 film Drácula. Universal Studios Actress Lupita Tovar, the star of the 1931 Spanish-language version of ...

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 ...

But both the original and the subsequent “talkie” proved very popular. Tovar, who lives in the Los Angeles area, is best known to U.S. film buffs for her role in the Spanish version of ...

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 ...

Lupita Tovar was just a teenager when a Hollywood scout discovered her in Mexico City. Nearly seven decades and one postage stamp later, the star... Mexican screen siren Lupita Tovar was just a ...

LUPITA Tovar, who has died aged 106 ... They returned to America and spent the rest of their lives there. In all, Tovar's career lasted 20 years, but in that time she became known as the ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...