Mecha Ortiz

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

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

1950s · 9 titles

1940s · 15 titles

María de los Ángeles poster
7.0

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

María de los Ángeles

1948

Vacaciones poster
8.5

A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.

Vacaciones

1947

Safo, historia de una pasión poster
7.0

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.

Safo, historia de una pasión

1943

Una mujer sin importancia poster
8.0

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

Una mujer sin importancia

1945

El gran secreto poster
7.0

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

El gran secreto

1942

Joven, viuda y estanciera poster
9.0

Elena 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

Swan Song poster
6.5

A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.

Swan Song

1945

Mi novia es un fantasma poster
7.6

A 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

Vidas marcadas poster
9.0

Two men define the destiny of a woman in a card game.

Vidas marcadas

1942

Las tres ratas poster
7.1

Three 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

Madame Bovary poster
6.1

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

1947

El precio de una vida poster
8.0

The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora Romanov.

El precio de una vida

1947

La rubia Mireya poster
9.5

The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the tango mythology.

La rubia Mireya

1948

Camino del infierno poster
7.3

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

1945

Last Refuge poster
8.2

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

Last Refuge

1941

1930s · 6 titles

Series credits