Lupita Tovar
Guadalupe Natalia "Lupita" Tovar (born July 27, 1910), is a Mexican American actress, best known for her starring role in the 1931 Spanish language version of Drácula, filmed in Los Angeles by Universal Pictures at night using the same sets as the Bela Lugosi version, but with a different cast and director. Tovar also starred in the 1931 film Santa, the first Mexican film to feature sound.
Early life
Tovar was born in Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico, the daughter of Egidio Tovar, who was from Tehuacán, Puebla, Mexico, and Mary Tovar (née Sullivan), who was Irish Mexican, from Matías Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico. Tovar was the oldest of nine children, though many of her siblings did not survive early childhood. Tovar grew up during the time of the Mexican Revolution and was very poor. She was raised in a very religious Catholic upbringing, and went to a school where she was taught by nuns.
In 1918, Tovar's family moved to north to Mexico City where her father worked for the National Railroad of Mexico in an administrative position.
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