July 27, 2025

This Day in Halloween: Lupita Tovar -- star of Universal's Spanish-language "Dracula -- is born in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico in 1910. / Illustration by Laura Peyton Maurer

Lupita Tovar is born in Matias Romero, Oaxaca, Mexico in 1910. The star of the Spanish-language version of Universal’s Dracula in 1931 had a nearly 20-year career in both English- and Spanish-language films before retiring in the 1940s. She died in 2016. 

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