Mecha Ortiz

Born: 1900-09-23

María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro, better known as Mecha Ortiz, was an Argentine theater and film actress. She was one of the most relevant figures of the golden age of Argentine cinema. She was consecrated in the 1940s and 1950s.


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Painted Lips

as Tarotista
Released: 1974-05-23

The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.

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Cartas de amor

as Antonieta Lear
Released: 1951-01-25

A young man must choose between the love of two women.

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Mujeres que trabajan

as Ana María del Solar
Released: 1938-07-05

A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with...

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Bajo un mismo rostro

as Madre Superiora
Released: 1962-09-19

Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other...

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Madame Bovary

as Ema
Released: 1947-04-02

Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the...

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House of Shadows

as Mrs. Randall
Released: 1976-01-01

Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the...

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Pájaros de cristal

as Irina Galowa
Released: 1955-01-31

A great dancer, unable to continue dancing, takes as a disciple a girl who wants to succeed.

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El abuelo

as Lucrecia Vélez
Released: 1954-07-01

Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.

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Mi vida por la tuya

as uncredited
Released: 1951-02-01

During a mother's dream comes up Gloria Rivas as a vamp who crushes her son's life.

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Swan Song

as Flora Jordán
Released: 1945-04-27

A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.

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Mi novia es un fantasma

as Cameo
Released: 1944-06-02

A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and...

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Sangre en Castilla

as Alcaldesa Teresa Marquesa de Pinorrey
Released: 1950-11-10

During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in...

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Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic

as Mara Ordaz
Released: 1976-04-22

Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and...

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The Furies

as La madre
Released: 1960-11-03

Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their...

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Safo, historia de una pasión

as Selva Moreno
Released: 1943-09-16

The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a...

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Piedra libre

as Amalia Pradere - Amalia Grande
Released: 1976-09-16

Eugenia's parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia...

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Las locas del conventillo

as Tía Remedios
Released: 1966-06-21

The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent...

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El precio de una vida

as Princesa Fedora Romanov
Released: 1947-10-23

The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora...

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Margarita, Armando y su padre

as Margarita
Released: 1939-01-10

A laid back woman, a romantic man and a father who allows his son to choose his partner freely,...

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Las tres ratas

as Mercedes de la Fuente
Released: 1946-08-07

Three sisters become orphans. The eldest one will undertake the protection of the rest which...

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Una mujer sin importancia

as Raquel Miramar
Released: 1945-03-01

Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming...

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Con las alas rotas

as uncredited
Released: 1938-06-15

A man finds out his wife had a lover and abandons her, but first he gains custody of their daughter.

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Maestro Levita

as Elena Acevedo de Lerena
Released: 1938-02-09

A school teacher tries to support his school against unjust measures by the government and a...

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Blessed be you

as María
Released: 1956-03-08

María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.

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Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina

as La rubia Mireya
Released: 1937-03-30

A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a...

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Camino del infierno

as Laura Simrok
Released: 1945-03-15

A melodramatic, psychological thriller, the film tells the story of a young wealthy widow, who...

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Vacaciones

as uncredited
Released: 1947-09-25

A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.

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La sombra de Safo

as uncredited
Released: 1957-09-05

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Melgarejo

as uncredited
Released: 1937-05-19

An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.

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Dishonor

as Directora Interventora
Released: 1952-01-15

The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five...

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Last Refuge

as Silvia
Released: 1941-01-19

Albareda does not doubt to betray her lover running away after denouncing him.

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Aquel cine argentino

as Ella misma
Released: 1984-01-02

A compilation of the origins of Argentine cinema up to the 1960s.

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La rubia Mireya

as Ana María Peña de Robles / La Rubia Mireya
Released: 1948-10-08

The misadventures of a woman and her failed relationships. Everything is represented through the...

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Vidas marcadas

as Malena
Released: 1942-04-20

Two men define the destiny of a woman in a card game.

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El mal amor

as uncredited
Released: 1955-02-24

Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her...

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Joven, viuda y estanciera

as Elena Ocampo
Released: 1941-06-11

Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate...

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Safo

as uncredited
Released: 2003-12-01

A remake of the 1943 film of the same name.

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María de los Ángeles

as uncredited
Released: 1948-02-13

Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of...

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Rolando Rivas, taxista

as Malú
First aired: 1972-03-07

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