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Returning to Hollywood in 1939, she snared the lead in a B comedy for RKO Radio Pictures, The Girl from Mexico.

She established such a rapport with co-star Leon Errol that RKO made a quick sequel, Mexican Spitfire, which became a very popular series.

Vélez perfected her comic character, indulging in broken-English malaprops, trouble-making ideas, and sudden fits of temper bursting into torrents of Spanish invective.

She occasionally sang in these films, and often displayed a talent for hectic, visual comedy.

Vélez enjoyed making these films and can be seen openly breaking up at Leon Errol's comic ad libs.