Lupe Velez

Her suicide has gathered a cruel but grimly amusing story, made into a film by Andy Warhol in 1965 as Lupe. It was laid on February 9, 1960. The drug did not work, instead upsetting her stomach; she actually was found dead in her bathroom, having drowned in the toilet. She is the first performer to have a star on the Walk of Fame. Lupe Vélez committed suicide with Seconal in Beverly Hills, California after the end of her relationship with Harold Raymond, whose child she was carrying. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Blvd. In 1943 she returned to Mexico and starred in Nana (1944), well received she returned to Hollywood. Woodward is artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse.

She went on to have another emotionally draining affair, this with Gary Cooper. She and Newman live in Connecticut, and are involved in liberal politics. The fraught marriage lasted five years, they repeatedly split and finally divorced in 1938. In 1990, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College alongside her daughter, Clea. Emotionally generous, she had a number of highly publicized affairs before marrying Johnny Weissmuller in 1933. Woodward has continued to act on stage, films and television. Vélez was one of few Hollywood actors to make a successful transition from silent film to 'talkies'. She and Newman first starred together that year in The Long Hot Summer, one of many collaborations.

She largely stuck to lighter roles from then, notably in the Mexcan Spitfire series of seven films (1939-1943). By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She did a further eighteen films before finding her niche in comedy with Hot Pepper (1933). The two were married in 1958. Her first feature-length film was Douglas Fairbanks' The Gaucho (1927); the next year, she was one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually understudying in the New York production of Picnic with another young actor, Paul Newman. She moved to California that year and was first cast in movies by Hal Roach. Woodward's first film was Count Three and Pray, in 1955.

She took dancing lessons and in 1924 made her performing debut at the Teatro Principal. She majored in drama at Louisiana State University, then headed to New York City to perform on the stage. She was lightly educated at a convent school in Texas before finding work as a sales assistant. Joanne won many beauty contests as a teenager. She was born in San Luis Potosí as María Guadalupe Vélez de Villalobos. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1979, in a television production of Come Back, Little Sheba. Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 - December 13, 1944) was a Mexican actress. Attending the premiere of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta, nine-year-old Joanne rushed out into the parade of stars and sat on the lap of Laurence Olivier, star Vivien Leigh's husband.

Her mother wanted to name her after Joan Crawford, but then her parents felt that the name "Joanne" was more Southern. Born Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward in Thomasville, Georgia, she was influenced to become an actress by her mother's love of movies. Joanne Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an American actress. 1958 - Won Best Actress in a Leading Role - The Three Faces of Eve.

1969 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Rachel, Rachel. 1974 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. & Mrs. Bridge. 1991 - Nominated Best Actress in a Leading Role - Mr.