The Mexican film legend was the mother of 'Imitation of Life' star Susan Kohner and grandmother of screenwriters Chris and Paul Weitz.
Lupita Tovar, the Mexican actress who starred in the 1931 Spanish-language version of Draculathat was shot concurrently with the famed Bela Lugosi version, has died. She was 106.
Tovar died Saturday, her niece, actress Lucy Tovar, said on Facebook. Several Mexican news outlets reported that she died in Los Angeles.
Lupita Tovar's daughter is Susan Kohner, who earned an Oscar nomination for portraying the young woman who rejects her black mother (Juanita Moore) and tries to pass herself off as white in the 1959 Douglas Sirk melodrama Imitation of Life.
Other survivors include her grandchildren Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, Kohner's sons, who shared an Oscar screenplay nomination for About a Boy (2002).
Tovar was married to Czech-born producer and Hollywood agent Paul Kohner, who represented the likes of Greta Garbo, John Huston, Lana Turner, Ingmar Bergman, Yul Brynner, David Niven, Billy Wilder and Charles Bronson, from 1932 until his death in 1988.