Meche Barba
Also Known As: La Venus Azteca
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".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 25, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 14, 2000
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Gran Casino
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1947-06-12
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Lazos de fuego
Overview: Mexican movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Street Love
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-03
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Sota, caballo y rey
Overview: Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1944-12-08
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Cortesana
Overview: Young woman breaks up with her fiance to shack up with her sister's husband.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Los años de Greta
Overview: Elderly woman bonds with other senior citizens for emotional support.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-08-07
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Smoke in the Eyes
Overview: Heated rivalry over a bar-girl in a dive-y waterfront saloon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1946-11-13
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Dancing, salón de baile
Overview: Mambo nightclub is a front for gangster activity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-02-05
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Laura's Sin
Overview: Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-26
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Ambitious
Overview: Young actress advances her career by choosing boyfriends judiciously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-02-26
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Love for Sale
Overview: Handicapped songwriter falls for bad girl. Again.
Genres: Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-27
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Apartment house
Overview: Personal dramas among the residents of an apartment house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-02-08
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When Children Sin
Overview: Bad girl makes lives miserable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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As negro
Overview: Two poor children swear an oath: one will study, the other will work and support them both. The worker turns to crime...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-11-11
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¡Acá las Tortas!
Overview: College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Cuando el alba llegue
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Pasionaria
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-04-09
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Lola Casanova
Overview: Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-05-25
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Negra consentida
Overview: Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-05
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Póker de ases
Overview: Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Yo fui una callejera
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-09-30
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Amor y venganza
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-06
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Músico, poeta y loco
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1948-05-08
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Eterna agonía
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-06-22
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Quiero vivir
Overview: Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
Genres: Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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The Naked Woman
Overview: A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-03-25
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Mi papá tuvo la culpa
Overview: Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-06-17
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Rosalinda
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1945-12-25
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Una mujer con pasado
Overview: After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-01-27
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Venus de fuego
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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Cuando tú me quieras
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-12-19
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Si fuera una cualquiera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Reportaje
Overview: Reporters compete for cash prize awarded for biggest scoop on New Year's Eve.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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