Lupita Tovar(1910-2016)
- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Born in Oaxaca, Mexico, Lupita Tovar appeared first in silent Fox films
before making the move to Universal and co-starring in the
Spanish-language version of 1930's "The Cat Creeps"
(La voluntad del muerto (1930)).
For the same producer, Czech-born
Paul Kohner, she appeared as Eva Seward (the
Spanish-language counterpart of
Helen Chandler's Mina) in
Universal's Spanish Dracula (1931). In
1932, she married Kohner, who later became one of the top agents in
Hollywood. (Their actress-daughter,
Susan Kohner, was Oscar-nominated for her
performance in Universal's 1959
Imitation of Life (1959); their
son, Pancho Kohner, is a producer). Tovar
gave up films in the 1940s and has been widowed since 1988.
