Mecha Ortiz

Mecha Ortiz

Born: September 23, 1900
Died: November 20, 1987
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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.

Movies for Mecha Ortiz...

Safo
Title: Safo
Released: December 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A remake of the 1943 film of the same name.
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Aquel cine argentino
Title: Aquel cine argentino
Character: Ella misma
Released: January 2, 1984
Type: Movie
A compilation of the origins of Argentine cinema up to the 1960s.
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Piedra libre
Title: Piedra libre
Character: Amalia Pradere - Amalia Grande
Released: September 16, 1976
Type: Movie
Eugenia's parents die. She goes to live with Amalita, her close friend. Her grandmother Amalia Pradere a wealth landlady, takes the orphan under her protection. After a chain of events, disappearing her grandchild, Eugenia will take Amalita's place. She will inherit not only Amalia's possessions but also Ezequiel's love, Amalita's widower.
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Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
Title: Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic
Character: Mara Ordaz
Released: April 22, 1976
Type: Movie
Mara Ordaz, a former film star who lives in an isolated mansion with her husband, her doctor and her money manager, decides to sell the house and return to Buenos Aires; but the three men do not agree with her decision.
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House of Shadows
Title: House of Shadows
Character: Mrs. Randall
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Audrey investigates a murder that occured 23 years ago in a dark mansion. She searches for the dead body, the killer, and the truth.
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Painted Lips
Title: Painted Lips
Released: May 23, 1974
Type: Movie
The life and the lovers of a few young women in a provincial town.
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Title: Rolando Rivas, taxista
Character: Malú
Released: March 7, 1972
Type: TV
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Las locas del conventillo
Title: Las locas del conventillo
Character: Tía Remedios
Released: June 21, 1966
Type: Movie
The neighborhood of La Boca, in Buenos Aires, is divided in two sectors: one is where decent people live under the tutelage of Magdalena, in the other, Manuel,ir responsible of a nightclub. Among decent people live Manolo, the milkman, awaiting the arrival of a Spanish woman to marry her. At the same time, the villain of Manuel also hopes for a Spanish nightclub. Women Arrivals weapon confusion.
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Bajo un mismo rostro
Title: Bajo un mismo rostro
Character: Madre Superiora
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Two twin sisters have completely different ways of loving: to one love is profound, to the other is carnal.
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The Furies
Title: The Furies
Character: La madre
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Five women whose lives revolve around an absent man constantly battle each other in their decaying old mansion. The first Argentinian sound film directed by a woman.
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La sombra de Safo
Title: La sombra de Safo
Released: September 5, 1957
Type: Movie
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Blessed be you
Title: Blessed be you
Character: María
Released: March 8, 1956
Type: Movie
María has a powerful reason to hide the fact that she is Enrique's mother.
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El mal amor
Title: El mal amor
Released: February 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Widow meets her husband's family for the first time after his death; her mother-in-law hates her and her husband's son from earlier marriage falls in love with her.
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Pájaros de cristal
Title: Pájaros de cristal
Character: Irina Galowa
Released: January 31, 1955
Type: Movie
A great dancer, unable to continue dancing, takes as a disciple a girl who wants to succeed.
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El abuelo
Title: El abuelo
Character: Lucrecia Vélez
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by Benito Pérez Galdós.
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Dishonor
Title: Dishonor
Character: Directora Interventora
Released: January 15, 1952
Type: Movie
The woeful tale of a trained nurse falsely accused of murder and shipped off to prison for five years.
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Mi vida por la tuya
Title: Mi vida por la tuya
Released: February 1, 1951
Type: Movie
During a mother's dream comes up Gloria Rivas as a vamp who crushes her son's life.
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Cartas de amor
Title: Cartas de amor
Character: Antonieta Lear
Released: January 25, 1951
Type: Movie
A young man must choose between the love of two women.
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Sangre en Castilla
Title: Sangre en Castilla
Character: Alcaldesa Teresa Marquesa de Pinorrey
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
During the war against Napoleon the brave Therese of Pinorrey is erected as Alcaldesa in Castilla, Spain
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La rubia Mireya
Title: La rubia Mireya
Character: Ana María Peña de Robles / La Rubia Mireya
Released: October 8, 1948
Type: Movie
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María de los Ángeles
Title: María de los Ángeles
Released: February 13, 1948
Type: Movie
Set in 1825, the romance between a Creole woman and a Spaniard, during the Argentine War of Independence.
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El precio de una vida
Title: El precio de una vida
Released: October 23, 1947
Type: Movie
The story of the tragic love of Count Loris Ipanov, a Russian nihilist, for the Princes Fedora Romanov.
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Vacaciones
Title: Vacaciones
Released: September 25, 1947
Type: Movie
A woman's dilemma between love for her mother and passion for a man.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Ema
Released: April 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
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Las tres ratas
Title: Las tres ratas
Character: Mercedes de la Fuente
Released: August 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Three sisters become orphans. The eldest one will undertake the protection of the rest which involves a very hard task . Eventually, she will have to resign to her happiness.
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Swan Song
Title: Swan Song
Character: Flora Jordán
Released: April 27, 1945
Type: Movie
A middle-age woman and a young composer live a tragic romance.
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Camino del infierno
Title: Camino del infierno
Character: Laura Simrok
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A melodramatic, psychological thriller, the film tells the story of a young wealthy widow, who is unhappy. She meets a Bohemian artist who marries her to escape the poverty of his family, but is stifled by her possessiveness and jealousy.
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Una mujer sin importancia
Title: Una mujer sin importancia
Character: Raquel Miramar
Released: March 1, 1945
Type: Movie
Raquel is let down during her pregnancy. Twenty years have passed and the man comes up claiming for his paternity.
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Mi novia es un fantasma
Title: Mi novia es un fantasma
Released: June 2, 1944
Type: Movie
A humble maid is confused with a millionaire from a misunderstanding in the hotel that works and a journalist falls madly in love with her.
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Safo, historia de una pasión
Title: Safo, historia de una pasión
Character: Selva Moreno
Released: September 16, 1943
Type: Movie
The relationship between an experienced woman and a youngster which develops in a passion and a further social rejection.
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El gran secreto
Title: El gran secreto
Released: July 21, 1942
Type: Movie
A meteorologist's wife hurts her sister so she won't reveal who the real mother of her child is.
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Vidas marcadas
Title: Vidas marcadas
Character: Malena
Released: April 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Two men define the destiny of a woman in a card game.
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Joven, viuda y estanciera
Title: Joven, viuda y estanciera
Character: Elena Ocampo
Released: June 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Elena is coming back to her country house while León and the person in charge of the estate fight to gain her love.
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Last Refuge
Title: Last Refuge
Character: Silvia
Released: January 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Albareda does not doubt to betray her lover running away after denouncing him.
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Margarita, Armando y su padre
Title: Margarita, Armando y su padre
Character: Margarita
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A laid back woman, a romantic man and a father who allows his son to choose his partner freely, produce a revival of the famous novel treating its characters in an ironical way.
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Mujeres que trabajan
Title: Mujeres que trabajan
Character: Ana María del Solar
Released: July 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A rich lady is suddenly in the street after her father's suicide and moves to a pension with many working women from different origins whom she had previously humiliated.
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Con las alas rotas
Title: Con las alas rotas
Released: June 15, 1938
Type: Movie
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
Title: Maestro Levita
Character: Elena Acevedo de Lerena
Released: February 9, 1938
Type: Movie
A school teacher tries to support his school against unjust measures by the government and a rich woman helps him.
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Melgarejo
Title: Melgarejo
Released: May 19, 1937
Type: Movie
An adultery-induced woman is helped by her driver who discovers the villains.
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Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Title: Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina
Character: La rubia Mireya
Released: March 30, 1937
Type: Movie
A Young man from a wealthy family hide them his attraction for tango culture of arrabal. In a milonga he fell in love with Mirella and he have a knife fight with all others guapos that want her, he won. Time pass and Mirella became a mistress but this situation is unstable because of the society prejudices.