Meche Barba
Meche Barba | |
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Born | Mercedes Barba Feito September 24, 1922 New York City, U.S. |
Died | January 14, 2000 Mexico City, Mexico | (aged 77)
Nationality | Mexican |
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Years active | 1937–1999 |
Meche Barba (born Mercedes Barba Feito; September 24, 1922 – January 14, 2000) was a Mexican film actress and dancer of the
Early life
Mercedes Barba Feito was born in New York City. She was born to Antonio Barba, a Spanish circus actor and a Mexican mother, Victoria Feito. The Barba family decided to go to Mexico to register her a citizen a few weeks after Meche's birth. She began her career in Mexico City's tent theaters at the age of six. Due to her father's illness, she started working at a young age, alongside her sister Carmen Barba, who by her beauty, was hired by entrepreneurs of the most famous tent theaters for various events.[clarification needed]
Career
Meche Barba began learning dance when the famous Mexican comedian Roberto "El Panzón" Soto gave her sister the opportunity to work in his stage company, and parents allowed Merche to accompany her sister to work there. Her parents enrolled her at the dance school of the Russian ballerina Nina Shestakova. Meche Barba both gained experience in tent theatres and took lessons from stars like Cantinflas, Manuel Medel, Joaquín Pardavé and several others. Later, Barba joined the Stage Company of Paco Miller, with artists like Amelia Wilhelmy and Germán Valdés, a.k.a. "Tin Tan".
After the success that she had in the company of Paco Miller, Meche Barba was hired as the second soprano in the musical show Rayando el sol in the Palacio de Bellas Artes. She also worked in theaters such as The Lírico, the Follies Berger and in Virginia Fábregas' theatre productions.
In one of her theatre presentations, producer Raúl de Anda saw her and hired her to act in the film Sota, caballo y rey (1944), which was
In 1949, in the film Venus de fuego, she began a series of collaborations with major film actor and singer
In 1984,
Personal life and death
In the film sets, Meche Barba met the famous Mexican actor and singer Fernando Fernández, known as The Mexican Crooner. They had a love affair that brought conflict between Fernandez and his wife, the singer Lupita Palomera. From her relationship with Fernandez, Barba had her only son, Fernando Fernández Barba.
Meche Barba died in Mexico City on January 14, 2000, following a heart attack.[1]
Filmography
- Ave sin Rumbo (1937)
- Sota, Caballo y Rey (1944)
- Rancho de mis recuerdos (1945)
- El hijo de nadie (1944)
- Madman and Vagabond (1946)
- Rosalinda (1946)
- Felipe fue desgraciado (1946)
- Humo en los ojos(1946)
- Gran Casino (1947)
- Musico, poeta y loco (1947)
- Cortesana (1948)
- Lazos de fuego (1948)
- Lola Casanova (1949)
- Negra Consentida (1949)
- El pecado de Laura (1949)
- Venus de fuego (1949)
- Eterna agonía (1949)
- Cuando el alba llegue (1949)
- Una mujer con pasado (1950)
- Casa de vecindad (1950)
- Amor de la calle (1950)
- If I Were Just Anyone (1950)
- Love for Sale (1951)
- Cuando tu me quieras (1951)
- Acá las tortas (1951)
- Passionflower (1951)
- Dancing: salón de baile (1951)
- La muerte es mi pareja (1951)
- Yo fuí una callejera (1950)
- When Children Sin (1952)
- Mi papá tuvo la culpa (1952)
- La mujer desnuda (1953)
- I Want to Live (1953)
- Reportaje(1953)
- Ambiciosa(1953) (1953)
- As negro (1954)
- Amor y venganza (1991)
- Los Años de Greta (1992)
TV
- Principessa (1984)
- La pobre Señorita Limantour (1986)
- Quinceañera(1987)
- Rosa salvaje (1987)
- Balada por un amor (1990)
- María Mercedes(1992)
- Sueño de amor (1993)
- Valentina (1993)
- Marimar(1994)
- María la del Barrio (1995)
- La Usurpadora (1998)
- Rosalinda(1999)
References
- ^ Terra "Muere la actriz Meche Barba" - actualizado enero de 2000
Bibliography
- Muñoz Castillo., Fernando (1993). Las Reinas del Tropico: María Antonieta Pons, Meche Barba, Amalia Aguilar, Ninón Sevilla & Rosa Carmina. Grupo Azabache. ISBN 968-6084-85-1.
- Las Rumberas del Cine Mexicano (The Rumberas of the Mexican Cinema) (1999). In SOMOS. México: Editorial Televisa, S. A. de C. V.
- Agrasánchez Jr., Rogelio (2001). Bellezas del cine mexicano/Beauties of Mexican Cinema. Archivo Fílmico Agrasánchez. ISBN 968-5077-11-8.
External links
- Meche Barba at IMDb
- Meche Barba at the ITESM(in Spanish)
- LA RUMBERA MEXICANA... MECHE BARBA