Meche Barba
Acting
Biography
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
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.
María la del Barrio
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.
Rosalinda
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.
Maria Mercedes
No description available.
La pobre señorita Limantour
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.
Gran Casino
Two adventurers visit a small coastal village in 1850 in hopes of getting access to a shipwreck that took place 100 years earlier. Also, local girlfriends.
Rosalinda
Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
Ambitious
A young woman is seduced by her cousin's husband when the couple arrives at his house during the pianist's tour.
Cortesana
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.
Pasionaria
No description available.
El cristal empañado
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.
Eterna agonía
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.
Yo fui una callejera
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Apartment house
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.
Street Love
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Póker de ases
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
¡Acá las Tortas!
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
Lola Casanova
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Mi papá tuvo la culpa
Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.