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Line 15: '''Lupita Tovar''' (born July 27, 1910) is a [[Mexico\|Mexican]] actress, best known for her starring role in the 1931 [[Spanish language]] version of ''[[Dracula (Spanish-language version)\|Dracula]]'', filmed in [[Los Angeles]] by [[Universal Pictures]] at night using the same sets as the [[Bela Lugosi]] version, but with a different cast and director. Tovar, along with [[Carla Laemmle]], [[Baby Peggy]], and [[Mickey Rooney]] are the oldest remaining stars of the [[silent film]] era, although Tovar herself apparently did not make any silent films. Her earliest films were released by [[Fox Film Corporation]] in the [[Movietone sound system\|Fox Movietone]] sound-on-film system, but may also have been released in silent versions for theaters not yet equipped for sound. ==Life and career== Born as '''Guadalupe Tovar''', in [[Matías Romero]], [[Oaxaca, Mexico]], Tovar was discovered by [[documentary film]]maker [[Robert Flaherty]] of [[Fox ~~Film]] studios~~Studios while acting in a school play in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]]. She came to [[Hollywood]] in 1929 and a perusal of her lessons at the time reflects how serious she was in her attitude. Her weekly schedule included guitar, two hours four days, Spanish dances, one hour three days, dramatics, one-half hour two days, and English, one hour every day. Her accent was considered an asset in talking motion pictures. Lupita's English improved significantly in just seven months from the time she arrived in Hollywood in January 1929. At first she could not say ''good morning'' in English. Her improvement owed much to her frequenting [[talkies]], and learning new words and how to say them by reading voraciously. Tovar appeared in ''[[The Veiled Woman (1929 film)]] (1929) with [[Bela Lugosi]] (now thought to be a lost film) and ''[[The Cock-Eyed World]]'' (1929).