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The Girl from Mexico
Directed byLeslie Goodwins
Written byLionel Houser and Joseph Fields
Produced byRobert Sisk
CinematographyJack MacKenzie
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
2 June 1939
Running time
71 min.
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Girl from Mexico is a 1939 American comedy film starring Lupe Vélez. She plays a hot-headed, fast-talking Mexican singer taken to New York for a radio gig, who decides she wants the ad agency man for herself.

This low-budget film's unexpected box-office success resulted in a sequel, Mexican Spitfire, and eventually eight films all together. All eight were directed by Goodwins, used venerable comedian Leon Errol as a comic foil, and showcased Vélez's comic persona, indulging in broken-English malapropisms, troublemaking ideas, sudden fits of temper, occasional songs, and bursts of Spanish invective.

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