Trivia

She acted in the first Mexican talkie film, Santa (1932).

Grandmother of Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz

She died on November 12, 2016, the day after her daughter Susan Kohner's 80th birthday.

She and her daughter Susan Kohner both starred in films that the Library of Congress selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2015: Tovar in Drácula (1931) and Kohner in Imitation of Life (1959).

Mother of Pancho Kohner and Susan Kohner

Mother-in-law of Mercedes Martinez.

She was born in Mexico of a Mexican father and an Irish mother.

Interviewed in Tom Weaver's book "Attack of the Monster Movie Makers" (McFarland & Co., 1994).

Douglas Fairbanks Jr. announced in early 1930 that he would be making a film set in California during the 19th century, and that Lupita had been placed under contract to play his love interest. By March, it was announced that the production would not commence.

When a Richard Barthelmess vehicle, titled "Adios" and based on the novel by Lanier Bartlett and Virginia Stivers Bartlett, was first announced in early 1930, Lupita was announced as a "likely" costar. The film was eventually made as The Lash (1930) without Tovar's involvement.