Meche Barba
Birth : 1922-09-25, New York City, New York, USA
Death : 2000-01-14
History
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".
Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
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.
Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
Woman accusing her servant
Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Magda
A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
Mercedes Rios
Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Bad girl makes lives miserable.
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.
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.
Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.
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.
María
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Queta
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.
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.
Margarita
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.
Laura
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.
Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
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.
Mexican movie
Camelia
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.
Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.
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.
Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.