
Acting
Mecha Ortiz
Born — Died
1900-09-23 — 1987-11-20
Place of birth
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Known for
Acting
Credits
41 titles
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
7.5Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La señora Ana luce sus medallas
1967
7.0Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
María de los Ángeles
1948
8.0María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
Blessed be you
1956
7.0Eugenia'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
1976
7.8A 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
1939
Film credits
2000s · 1 titles
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 4 titles
7.0Eugenia'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
1976
4.2Audrey 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
1976
7.6Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
1976
6.6The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
Painted Lips
1974
1960s · 4 titles
7.5Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion.
The Furies
1960
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La señora Ana luce sus medallas
1967
7.3The 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
1966
5.8Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
Bajo un mismo rostro
1962
1950s · 9 titles
8.0María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
Blessed be you
1956
8.5To prevent a politician from winning, a journalist blackmails his wife with old love letters from his former lover. She feels cornered because her family's honor is at stake. The film includes excerpts from "Sappho, Story of a Passion" (1943), a film by Carlos Hugo Christensen.
La sombra de Safo
1957
9.0Widow 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
1955
NRA great dancer, unable to continue dancing, takes as a disciple a girl who wants to succeed.
Pájaros de cristal
1955
10.0During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain
Sangre en Castilla
1950
7.0Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.
El abuelo
1954
6.5After an accident in a Buenos Aires shipyard a young boy is in the hospital in critical condition, and the boy’s anxious mother has a dream that includes an actress named Gloria Rivas she saw on a poster. Her son, now grown, ends up involved with the actress. Will she be his downfall? Was the dream a premonition?
My Life for Yours
1951
9.0A young man must choose between the love of two women.
Cartas de amor
1951
5.8The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
Dishonor
1952
1940s · 15 titles
7.0Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
María de los Ángeles
1948
8.5A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
Vacaciones
1947
7.0The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
Safo, historia de una pasión
1943
8.0Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
Una mujer sin importancia
1945
7.0A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
El gran secreto
1942
9.0Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate fight to gain her love.
Joven, viuda y estanciera
1941
6.5A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.
Swan Song
1945
7.6A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.
Mi novia es un fantasma
1944
9.0Two men define the destiny of a woman in a card game.
Vidas marcadas
1942
7.1Three sisters become orphans. The eldest one will undertake the protection of the rest which involves a very hard task . Eventually, she will have to resign to her happiness.
Las tres ratas
1946
6.1Paris, 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
1947
8.0The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora Romanov.
El precio de una vida
1947
9.5The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.
La rubia Mireya
1948
7.3A 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
1945
8.2Albareda does not doubt to betray her lover running away after denouncing him.
Last Refuge
1941
1930s · 6 titles
7.8A 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
1939
8.0A school teacher tries to support his school against unjust measures by the government and a rich woman helps him.
Maestro Levita
1938
7.0A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
1937
8.0A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.
Con las alas rotas
1938
8.2A 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
1938
7.0An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
Melgarejo
1937



