The Girl from Mexico is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins and written by Lionel Houser and Joseph Fields. The film stars Lupe Vélez, who 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 a film series of seven 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. The film was released June 2, 1939, by RKO Radio Pictures.^[1][2]

Plot

Denny Lindsay, a radio man, brings back a singer, Carmelita Fuenes, from Mexico.

Cast

• Lupe Vélez as Carmelita Fuentes
• Donald Woods as Dennis 'Denny' Lindsay
• Leon Errol as Uncle Matthew 'Matt' Lindsay
• Linda Hayes as Elizabeth Price
• Donald MacBride as L. B. Renner
• Edward Raquello as Tony Romano
• Elisabeth Risdon as Aunt Della Lindsay
• Ward Bond as Mexican Pete, the Wrestler