Acting

Meche Barba

Born September 25, 1922 · New York City, New York, USA

Died January 14, 2000 · aged 77

Meche Barba (New York City, New York September 24, 1922 – Mexico City January 14, 2000) (born Mercedes Barba Feito), was an American-born Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the "Rumberas film".

Known For

Gran Casino

Gran Casino · 1947

MovieMusicDrama

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

The Naked Woman

The Naked Woman · 1953

The Naked Woman

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.

México de mis amores

México de mis amores · 1979

México de mis amores

MovieDocumentary

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Love for Sale

Love for Sale · 1951

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.

Eterna agonía

Eterna agonía · 1949

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.

Dancing, salón de baile

Dancing, salón de baile · 1952

Dancing, salón de baile

MovieCrimeDrama

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Cuando el alba llegue

Cuando el alba llegue · 1950

Cuando el alba llegue

Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.

Mi papá tuvo la culpa

Mi papá tuvo la culpa · 1953

Mi papá tuvo la culpa

MovieComedyDrama

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.

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Gran Casino

Gran Casino · 1947

MovieMusicDrama

After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.

Camelia

The Naked Woman

The Naked Woman · 1953

The Naked Woman

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.

Magda

México de mis amores

México de mis amores · 1979

México de mis amores

MovieDocumentary

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

Love for Sale

Love for Sale · 1951

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.

Eterna agonía

Eterna agonía · 1949

Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.

Margarita

Dancing, salón de baile

Dancing, salón de baile · 1952

Dancing, salón de baile

MovieCrimeDrama

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Elvia

Cuando el alba llegue

Cuando el alba llegue · 1950

Cuando el alba llegue

Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.

Mi papá tuvo la culpa

Mi papá tuvo la culpa · 1953

Mi papá tuvo la culpa

MovieComedyDrama

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.

Street Love

Street Love · 1950

El Pichi, El Trompas and El Orejas are street children who pick up a bill that Fernando has dropped, who prevents them from being arrested and offers them a job at a cake stand. Fernando meets Queta, El Pichi's sister, and they both feel attracted. This will lead Fernando to know the hardness of life for people in the suburbs.

Queta

El hijo de nadie

El hijo de nadie · 1946

El hijo de nadie

Ambitious

Ambitious · 1953

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

Estela Durán

Los años de Greta

Los años de Greta · 1992

Los años de Greta

Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.

Gloria

Laura's Sin

Laura's Sin · 1949

MovieDramaCrime

José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.

Laura

Músico, poeta y loco

Músico, poeta y loco · 1948

Músico, poeta y loco

An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.

Apartment house

Apartment house · 1951

Apartment house

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Carmela

Ave sin rumbo

Ave sin rumbo · 1937

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?

Bailarina (uncredited)

When Children Sin

When Children Sin · 1952

When Children Sin

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

Aurora López

Sota, caballo y rey

Sota, caballo y rey · 1944

Sota, caballo y rey

Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.

Si fuera una cualquiera

Si fuera una cualquiera · 1950

Si fuera una cualquiera

Yo fui una callejera

Yo fui una callejera · 1952

Yo fui una callejera

Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.

Smoke in the Eyes

Smoke in the Eyes · 1946

Smoke in the Eyes

Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.

María Ester

Cuando tú me quieras

Cuando tú me quieras · 1951

Cuando tú me quieras

A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.

Reportaje

Reportaje · 1953

MovieDramaComedy

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Woman accusing her servant

Amor y venganza

Amor y venganza · 1991

Amor y venganza

Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.

María la del Barrio

María la del Barrio · 1995

María la del Barrio

SeriesDramaSoap

A brave, poor young girl is welcomed into a rich family and develops a romance with their misogynist youngest son, driving a woman already in love with him to go to great lengths to destroy their relationship.

Guadalupe "Lupe" Linhares

Maria Mercedes

Maria Mercedes · 1992

SeriesDramaSoap

María Mercedes, a poor girl who sells lottery tickets, meets a rich man who hates his own family and sees in María Mercedes an opportunity to make their lives miserable.

Doña Chonita

Rosalinda

Rosalinda · 1999

SeriesDramaSoap

Having to serve a sentence for a murder she did not commit but took the blame for, a woman gives her baby to her sister to be raised without knowing the truth. 20 years later she is freed and try to be once again part of her life. But things get complicated when the daugther, Rosalinda, and Fernando, the son of the man that was killed, become close.

Angustias

La pobre señorita Limantour

La pobre señorita Limantour · 1987

La pobre señorita Limantour

SeriesDramaSoap

El cristal empañado

El cristal empañado · 1989

El cristal empañado

Yolanda