Meche Barba

Acting

Meche Barba

Born 1922-09-25 · New York City, New York, USA

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".

Acting credits

Dancing, salón de baile poster
5.5

Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.

Dancing, salón de baile

1952

Ambitious poster
5.8

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

Ambitious

1953

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

Love for Sale poster
6.3

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.

Love for Sale

1951

The Naked Woman poster
6.0

A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.

The Naked Woman

1953

Póker de ases poster
6.5

Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.

Póker de ases

1952

México de mis amores poster
6.0

Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.

México de mis amores

1979

Street Love poster
6.0

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

1950

Amor y venganza poster
6.3

Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.

Amor y venganza

1991

Músico, poeta y loco poster
7.6

An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.

Músico, poeta y loco

1948

Lazos de fuego poster
6.7

Mexican movie

Lazos de fuego

1948

Cuando el alba llegue poster
5.7

Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.

Cuando el alba llegue

1950

Gran Casino poster
5.2

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

1947

Venus de fuego poster
6.0

Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.

Venus de fuego

1949

Ave sin rumbo poster
5.6

A woman with a past meets a man with a past; the back story of each one represents an obstacle to their couple-bonding. Will they work through their traumas?

Ave sin rumbo

1937

¡Acá las Tortas! poster
8.0

College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.

¡Acá las Tortas!

1951

Cuando tú me quieras poster
6.3

A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.

Cuando tú me quieras

1951

Eterna agonía poster
6.3

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

1949

Negra consentida poster
5.7

Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.

Negra consentida

1949

Laura's Sin poster
6.4

José, a driver, and Laura, a dancer, were lovers. José couldn't dance with Laura due to his condition on his legs. Therefore, a man notices Laura's skill to dance and wants to do business with her, taking her on a dancing tour, which made José and Laura miss each other.

Laura's Sin

1949

When Children Sin poster
6.0

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

When Children Sin

1952

Reportaje poster
7.3

Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.

Reportaje

1953

Los años de Greta poster
6.5

Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.

Los años de Greta

1992

Loco y vagabundo poster
6.0

Mexican movie

Loco y vagabundo

1946