The horror genre has lost another icon from the classic age of monster movies. Lupita Tovar passed away yesterday at the age of 106. She had starred in the Spanish-language version of Universal’s Dracula in 1931. This was the version directed by George Melford that was filmed on the same sets as the Tod Browning version, but at night after the American crew had left. It was produced by Paul Kohner, who would later marry Tovar as short time after filming finished.
She came to Hollywood in the late ’20s and appeared in several silent films, even working opposite Bela Lugosi in the 1929 film The Veiled Woman. After appearing in Dracula, she returned to Mexico and appeared in several other films, including Mexico’s very first talking film, Santa (1932).
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