![]() She, in fact, had parents who were both mixed with African American and European American descent. Most recognize her in the 1934 version of the film Imitation of Life, playing a mixed race woman struggling to accept her black mother as she tries to pass for white. Fredi Washingtonįredi Washington was an accomplished actress and activist during her time. And she never actually knew who her father was. She had Cherokee, African American, and possibly German descent. If you don’t know her by her 1953 version of the song “Santa Baby,” her song “Where’s My Man,” , her activism, her movies (particularly when she tricked Eddie Murphy into letting her seduce him in her old age in Boomerang ), you may recognize her as the voice of Yzma in The Emperor’s New Groove. We all grew up with Eartha Kitt one way or another. Now that my personal excitement is out of the way, let’s get to it! 1. I have been so excited to create this list, and spent so much time searching for the right women for this list- I’m so ready to share these women with you. But I haven’t come across lists for mixed race women during those times. In 1982, Tovar was honored with a Mexican stamp that bore her image, and in 2001, she received the Life Achievement Award from the Academy of Arts and Sciences in Mexico.I’ve read a lot of “black women from the ’50s,” “Latinas from the ’40s,” types of lists celebrating mono-racial women of color. Ives (1976), Love and Bullets (1979) and Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987). Her son, Pancho Kohner, wrote, directed and produced The Bridge in the Jungle (1971) starring Huston and produced several films toplined by Bronson, including St. She then appeared in several silent films and in The Veiled Woman (1929) opposite Lugosi. Tovar’s father didn’t want her to leave home but changed his mind in part after receiving a letter from the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles saying that it would be a great opportunity for a young woman to come to the U.S. A dark-haired beauty, she excelled at gymnastics and dance in school and was offered a contract at Fox after she was spotted by Hollywood director and producer Robert J. Her father was Mexican and her mother Irish. Tovar was born on July 27, 1910, in the town of Matias Romero in the southern end of Mexico. ![]() She pretty much exited show business in the mid-1940s, preferring to raise a family. Lupita returned to Mexico to great acclaim to star in Santa (1932), her country’s first talking film, and later appeared in The Invader (1936) opposite Buster Keaton, Blockade (1938) with Henry Fonda, South of the Border (1939) with Gene Autry and The Westerner (1940) with Gary Cooper. The National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in December included her Dracula on its list of “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant motion pictures. We left in the morning before the English cast came in.” I would go to work about an hour early and sit there and try to concentrate. Ankerich’s 2011 book The Sound of Silence. It was a complete change because I had to sleep in the daytime,” Tovar said in Michael G. “This was very, very difficult because I always needed my sleep - 10 hours. Tovar played Eva Steward, the daughter of the sanatorium owner, who comes under Dracula’s (Carlos Villar) evil spell. ![]() But when the talkies arrived, many elected to shoot new foreign-language versions.įor the Spanish-language Dracula (produced by Tovar’s future husband), Universal employed a different director, actors and crew to work at night on the same sets (and in the same costumes) that were used during the day for the English version of the Bram Stoker classic that made Lugosi a legend. ![]() 'SNL': Kate McKinnon's Clinton Performs Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"īefore the advent of sound in the movies, studios could just change the language of the intertitles to get their message across to overseas audiences. ![]()
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