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.
All episodes of Hollywood in Color are heavily researched. Here are the major sources used for this episode:
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)
Music used in this episode (listed in order heard):
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
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