Episodes: Season 1, Episode 5

About the Episode

In the last episode of the season, we look at Lupe’s and Dolores’ careers in the late 1930s to the mid 1940s, when both women leave Hollywood when it becomes an unwelcome space and place. Season 2 begins June 19.

 

The Sources

  • Dolores Del Rio: Beauty in Light and Shade (book) by Linda B Hall

  • Lupe Vélez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's Mexican Spitfire (book) by Michelle Vogel

  • Lupe Vélez: Queen of the Bs (in the book From Bananas to Buttocks: The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture) by Rosa Linda Fregoso

  • Spitfire: Lupe Velez and the Ambivalent Pleasures of Ethnic Masquerade (article) by Victoria Sturtevant

  • "You Don't Say That in English!": The Scandal of Lupe Velez (book chapter) by Henry Jenkins

  • The Assumption of Lupe Velez (thesis) by Rita Gonzalez

  • Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (book) by Francisco E. Balderrama

  • The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939 (book) by Lisa Jarvinen

  • Making Cinelandia: American Films and Mexican Film Culture before the Golden Age (book) by Laura Isabel Serna

  • Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles Before World War II (book) by Colin Gunckel

  • Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles (book) by William Deverell

  • The History of Sound at the Movies (youtube.com) by Filmmaker IQ

  • SB-670 Chapter 663 Mexican Repatriation Program of the 1930s ( leginfo.legislature.ca.gov)

The Music

  • Theme song (intro and outro): Hombre (Instrumental) by Kevin J. Simon (marmosetmusic.com)

  • Lobby Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • No Disclaimer by Jesse Spillane (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Lonesome Liar Dancing Up in the Trees by We Is Shore Dedicated (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Get Ready by Kumiko (freemusicarchive.org) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Assignment 1 by Drake Stafford (freemusicarchive.org) — Modified and looped from original — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • July by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) —  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Tumult by Kai Engel (freemusicarchive.org) — Modified and looped from original — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Remember the Time We Use To Play by Komiku (freemusicarchive.org) —  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

  • Accralate by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • On the Passing of Time by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

  • No soy de aqui, ni soy de alla by Chavela Vargas —  Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research

The Team

All episodes are written, produced, and edited by Diana Martinez. All artwork for the show was designed by Shelby Moring.