Meche Barba
Nacimiento : 1922-09-25, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 2000-01-14
Historia
Mercedes Barba Feito (Nueva York, 24 de septiembre de 1922 – Ciudad de México, 14 de enero de 2000), mejor conocida como Meche Barba, fue una actriz de cine y televisión, bailarina y rumbera mexicana.
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
En la víspera de fin de año, Bernardo, dueño de un periódico, discute con Gámez Rivera, su director. Como resultado de la discusión Bernardo ofrece un premio de diez mil pesos al reportero que traiga la mejor noticia de esa noche. Los reporteros salen a la calle para encontrarse con distintas historias, interpretadas por una multitud de estrellas del cine mexicano
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
Un joven recibe una beca para una especialidad en Europa, pero a su vez es diagnosticado con una enfermedad incurable.
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
El Pichi, El Trompas y El Orejas, son unos niños de la calle, que recogen un billete que se le ha caído a Fernando, que evita que les detengan y les ofrece un trabajo en un puesto de tortas. Fernando conoce a Queta, la hermana de El Pichi, y ambos se sienten atraídos. Esto llevará a Fernando a saber la dureza de la vida de la gente de los suburbios. (Filmaffinity)
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
Una joven pobre quiere ser bailarina, conoce a un bailarín que le ofrece clases de baile gratis pero después la viola.
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
Tampico (México), principios del siglo XX. Gerardo Ramírez y Demetrio García, dos prófugos, entran a trabajar al servicio del argentino José Enrique Irigoyen, propietario de pozos petrolíferos. Cuando Irigoyen desaparece, su hermana Mercedes llega a Tampico para hacerse cargo del negocio. Aunque sospecha que Gerardo y Demetrio pueden estar involucrados en la desaparición de su hermano, no puede evitar sentirse atraída por el primero. (FILMAFFINITY)
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.