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Meche Barba is a Actor Mexicaine born on 24 september 1922
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".
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Birth name Mercedes Barba Feito
Nationality Mexique
Birth 24 september 1922
Death 14 january 2000 (at 77 years) at Mexico City (Mexique)
Nationality Mexique
Birth 24 september 1922
Death 14 january 2000 (at 77 years) at Mexico City (Mexique)
Biography
In the film sets, Meche Barba met the famous Mexican actor and singer Fernando Fernández, known as The Mexican Crooner. They had a love affair that brought conflict between Fernandez and his wife, the singer Lupita Palomera. From her relationship with Fernandez, Barba had her only son, Fernando Fernández Barba.Usually with
Filmography of Meche Barba (11 films)
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The Naked Woman (1953)
, 1h30Genres Drama
Actors Meche Barba, Antonio Aguilar, Carlos López Moctezuma, Miguel Torruco, Fanny Schiller
Rating58%
A cabaret dancer, daughter of a circus clown, marries a famous singer. When everything seems to be happiness for both, a former lover of the young woman returns from her past to blackmail and not reveal her dark past.
Ambitious (1953)
, 1h30Genres Drama
Actors Meche Barba, Crox Alvarado, Dagoberto Rodríguez
Rating61%
Estela Durán (Meche Barba) is a young cuban woman of humble origin, who lives with her nanny Mama Irene (Fedora Capdevila). Estela despises poverty. One day she meets a talent scout for a film production company in Mexico. The two strike up an affair, causing the separation of the talent scouts with his wife. Estela has no interest in formalizing with him, but only for an opportunity in film. Arriving in Mexico is related to Oscar (Crox Alvarado), one of the partners of the producer who would meet her whims to get into trouble because of the debutante. Estela is able to snatch the characters to other actresses provided to meet her target. On the set of a movie, Estela knows Manuel (Fernando Fernández), who works in the camcorder stagehand and sustain a romance, until she meets Jose Antonio (Alberto González Rubio), a millionaire who she falls in love. She tries not to hurt him away and hurt, leading to this tragedy.
When Children Sin (1952)
, 1h40Genres Drama
Actors Rafael Banquells, Meche Barba, Dolores Camarillo, Silvia Pinal
Rating64%
Sandwiches Here! (1951)
, 1h51Directed by Juan Bustillo Oro
Genres Drama
Actors Sara García, Meche Barba, Luis Beristáin, Fernando Casanova, Lupe Carriles
Rating73%
This is the story of an elderly couple that had worked all their life making a modest living out of selling "Tortas". Everything they had they gave to their three children so they could have a better future. Thanks to their sacrifice, two of them were able to study abroad and now because of the social status they had accomplished, were too ashamed of their parents and denied knowing them. The third child, had become an alcoholic and his whereabouts were unknown to his parents.
Street Love (1950)
, 1h43Genres Drama
Actors Meche Barba, Alberto Mariscal
Rating62%
El Pichi (Freddy Fernández) and other street children collect a ticket that has fallen from Fernando El Calavera (Fernando Fernández), which prevents stop them and offers them a job in his place of tortas in the neighborhood of La Lagunilla Market in Mexico City. Fernando knows Queta (Meche Barba), the sister of El Pichi, and both are attracted. This will lead to Fernando namely the hardness of life of people in the suburbs. Queta have to fight against the fate, which forces her to work in a cabaret with the nickname of Cariño.
Lola Casanova (1949)
, 1h31Actors Meche Barba, Isabela Corona, Armando Silvestre, José Baviera, Ramón Gay
Roles Lola Casanova
Rating63%
Músico, poeta y loco (1948)
, 1h30Genres Comedy
Actors Germán Valdés, Meche Barba
Roles Mercedes Miraflores
Rating70%
Gran Casino (1947)
, 1h25Directed by Luis Buñuel
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Libertad Lamarque, Jorge Negrete, Alfonso Bedoya, Meche Barba, José Baviera, Julio Villarreal
Rating58%
Gerardo (Jorge Negrete) and his friend Demetrio (Julio Villarreal) are a pair of footloose cowboys in turn-of-the-century Mexico who are in prison on dubious charges. As Gerardo sings and strums on his guitar, Demetrio saws the bars of their cell, enabling them to escape. They come upon a small oil field operated by José Enrique (Francisco Jambrina), an entrepreneur from Argentina who is refusing to sell out to evil oil barons who threaten the workers. Gerardo persuades José to give work to him and his friends, and after he and Demetrio recruit more workers, they're able to rejuvenate the struggling operation. Just as their fortunes are on the rise, however, the oilman disappears and is feared murdered. Demetrio takes over the operation next, but, again, the night before the oil is to start pumping, he goes to the casino and falls for Camelia (Mercedes Barba), the same girl José was last seen with before he vanished, and he too disappears.
Smoke in the Eyes (1946)
, 1h17Directed by Alberto Gout
Genres Drama
Actors Meche Barba, David Silva, Rubén Rojo, Toña la Negra
Rating62%
Maria Esther (Meche Barba) is a young girl that works as a dancer in a cabaret. María Esther falls in love with Carlos (David Silva), a sailor who had a previous relationship with a cabaret woman named Sofia (María Luisa Zea). A rivalry erupts between the two women. Neither of the two realizes that, in reality, they are mother and daughter.
Rosalinda (1945)
, 1h40Actors María Antonieta Pons, Tito Junco, Meche Barba, Miguel Ángel Ferriz, Guillermo Calles, Alfonso Bedoya
Roles Luisa