Meche Barba

Acting

Meche Barba

Born — Died

1922-09-25 — 2000-01-14

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

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

Film credits

1950s · 18 titles

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

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

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

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

Yo fui una callejera poster
5.8

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

1952

Love for Sale poster
6.3

Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.

Love for Sale

1951

Apartment house poster
6.3

Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.

Apartment house

1951

When Children Sin poster
6.0

Bad girl makes lives miserable.

When Children Sin

1952

Mi papá tuvo la culpa poster
5.2

Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.

Mi papá tuvo la culpa

1953

Si fuera una cualquiera poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Si fuera una cualquiera

1950

Pasionaria poster
6.0

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

1952

Reportaje poster
7.3

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

Reportaje

1953

Ambitious poster
5.8

Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.

Ambitious

1953

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

¡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

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

Quiero vivir poster
6.2

Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.

Quiero vivir

1953

As negro poster
6.6

Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...

As negro

1954

1940s · 16 titles

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

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

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

Sota, caballo y rey poster
5.8

Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.

Sota, caballo y rey

1944

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

Cortesana poster
6.2

A young woman is seduced by her cousin's husband when the couple arrives at his house during the pianist's tour.

Cortesana

1948

Smoke in the Eyes poster
6.2

Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.

Smoke in the Eyes

1946

Rancho de mis recuerdos poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Rancho de mis recuerdos

1946

El hijo de nadie poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

El hijo de nadie

1946

Una mujer con pasado poster
5.8

After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.

Una mujer con pasado

1949

Lazos de fuego poster
6.7

Mexican movie

Lazos de fuego

1948

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

Loco y vagabundo poster
6.0

Mexican movie

Loco y vagabundo

1946

Lola Casanova poster
5.7

Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.

Lola Casanova

1949

Rosalinda poster
5.8

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

1945

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