
Mecha Ortiz
Acting
Biography
María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro, better known as Mecha Ortiz (1900-1987), was an Argentine theater and film actress. She was one of the most relevant figures of the golden age of Argentine cinema. She was consecrated in the 1940s and 1950s.
Known For

An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
Melgarejo

Albareda does not doubt to betray her lover running away after denouncing him.
Last Refuge

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
Blessed be you

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Madame Bovary

Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Una mujer sin importancia

A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
El gran secreto

A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
Women Who Work

The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.
Las locas del conventillo

A young couple, Margarita and Armando, reenact the story of The Lady of the Camellias, as they fall in love, Armando's flamboyant father disapproves of their relationship and does everything to separate them.
Margarita, Armando and his father

The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Dishonor

Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.
House of Shadows

Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her.
El mal amor

During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain
Sangre en Castilla

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Rolando Rivas, taxista

A school teacher tries to support his school against unjust measures by the government and a rich woman helps him.
Maestro Levita

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
Safo, historia de una pasión

A melodramatic, psychological thriller, the film tells the story of a young wealthy widow, who is unhappy. She meets a Bohemian artist who marries her to escape the poverty of his family, but is stifled by her possessiveness and jealousy.
Camino del infierno

Eugenia's parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her protection. After a chain of events, disappearing her grandchild, Eugenia will take Amalita's place. She will inherit not only Amalia's possessions but also Ezequiel's love, Amalita's widower.
Piedra libre

Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
María de los Ángeles

Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.