
Birthday:
09-25-1922
Deathday:
01-14-2000 (77 years)
Birthplace:
New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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".
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Gran Casino
Act like Camelia
event1947 star_border 5.2
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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.
Lazos de fuego
event1948 star_border 5
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Mexican movie
Street Love
Act like Queta
event1950 star_border 5.5
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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.
Sota, caballo y rey
event1944 star_border 5.3
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Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
Cortesana
event1948 star_border 5.5
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Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
Los años de Greta
Act like Gloria
event1992 star_border 6.2
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Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
Smoke in the Eyes
Act like María Ester
event1946 star_border 5.6
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Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.
Dancing, salón de baile
event1952 star_border 5.2
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Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.
Laura's Sin
Act like Laura
event1949 star_border 5.5
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Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
Ambitious
Act like Estela Durán
event1953 star_border 5.6
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Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
Love for Sale
event1951 star_border 5.6
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Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Apartment house
event1951 star_border 5.6
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Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
When Children Sin
Act like Aurora López
event1952 star_border 5
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Bad girl makes lives miserable.
As negro
event1954 star_border 5.3
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Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
¡Acá las Tortas!
Act like María
event1951 star_border 7.9
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College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Cuando el alba llegue
event1950 star_border 5
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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.
Pasionaria
event1952 star_border 5.3
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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.
Lola Casanova
Act like Lola Casanova
event1949 star_border 6
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Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
Negra consentida
event1949 star_border 5
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Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
Póker de ases
event1952 star_border 6.2
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Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Yo fui una callejera
event1952 star_border 5.5
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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.
Amor y venganza
event1991 star_border 5.6
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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.
Músico, poeta y loco
event1948 star_border 7.1
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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.
Eterna agonía
Act like Margarita
event1949 star_border 5.6
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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.
Quiero vivir
Act like Mercedes Rios
event1953 star_border 5.8
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Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
The Naked Woman
Act like Magda
event1953 star_border 5.6
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A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Mi papá tuvo la culpa
event1953 star_border 4.8
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Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Rosalinda
event1945 star_border 5
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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.
Una mujer con pasado
event1949 star_border 5
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After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.
Venus de fuego
event1949 star_border 5
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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.
Cuando tú me quieras
event1951 star_border 5
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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.
Reportaje
Act like Woman accusing her servant
event1953 star_border 6.9
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Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
María la del Barrio
Act like Guadalupe "Lupe" Linhares (185 ep.)
event1995 star_border 7.3
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A brave, poor young girl is welcomed into a rich family and develops a romance with their misogynist youngest son, driving a woman already in love with him to go to great lengths to destroy their relationship.
Maria Mercedes
Act like Doña Chonita (82 ep.)
event1992 star_border 7.2
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María Mercedes, a poor girl who sells lottery tickets, meets a rich man who hates his own family and sees in María Mercedes an opportunity to make their lives miserable.
Rosalinda
Act like Angustias (80 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7
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Having to serve a sentence for a murder she did not commit but took the blame for, a woman gives her baby to her sister to be raised without knowing the truth. 20 years later she is freed and try to be once again part of her life. But things get complicated when the daugther, Rosalinda, and Fernando, the son of the man that was killed, become close.
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