
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
5.5Some thieves confront the detectives who surprise them while robbing a factory, but manage to escape.
Dancing, salón de baile
1952
5.8Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
Ambitious
1953
6.3Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Apartment house
1951
6.3Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Love for Sale
1951
6.0A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
The Naked Woman
1953
6.5Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Póker de ases
1952
6.0Anthology of clips from classic-era Mexican films, with reality-footage of elderly actors discussing their memories of the period.
México de mis amores
1979
6.0El 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
6.3Young 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
7.6An 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
6.7Mexican movie
Lazos de fuego
1948
5.7Bad 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
5.2After 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
6.0Wholesome 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
5.6A 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
8.0College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
¡Acá las Tortas!
1951
6.3A 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
6.3Convicted 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
5.7Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
Negra consentida
1949
6.4José, 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
6.0Bad girl makes lives miserable.
When Children Sin
1952
7.3Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Reportaje
1953
6.5Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
Los años de Greta
1992
6.0Mexican movie
Loco y vagabundo
1946