In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Varela and the second or maternal family name is Domínguez.
Mecha Ortiz
Mecha Ortiz in Mujeres que trabajan (1938).
Born
María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro
(1900-09-24)24 September 1900
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died
20 October 1987(1987-10-20) (aged 87)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality
Argentine
Occupation
actress
Years active
1936-1976
Known for
Sapho
Mecha Ortiz (née María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro; 1900–1987) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in films between 1937 and 1981, during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. At the 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Ortiz won the Silver Condor Award for Best Actress for her performance in Safo, historia de una pasión (1943), and won it again in 1946 for her performance in El canto del cisne (1945). She was known as the Argentine Greta Garbo and for playing mysterious characters, who suffered by past misfortunes in love, mental disorders, or forbidden love. Safo, historia de una pasión was the first erotic Argentine film, though there was no nudity. She also played in the first film in which a woman struck a man and the first film with a lesbian romance. In 1981, she was awarded the Grand Prize for actresses from the National Endowment for the Arts.
MechaOrtiz (née María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro; 1900–1987) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in films between 1937 and 1981,...
Bad Woman (1948). He had the lead in La rubia Mireya (1949) alongside MechaOrtiz, and a key role in De padre desconocido (1949), Vidalita (1949) and The...
thriller film starring Yvonne De Carlo, John Gavin, Leonor Manso and MechaOrtiz. As Audrey walks alone on a stormy night, she hears a woman's voice pleading...
Després Silvia Legrand as Sor Elisabeth Jorge Mistral as Jaime Alonso MechaOrtiz as Madre Superiora Maurice Jouvet "Under the Same Skin". Film Affinity...
1960s Latin America. Its cast is almost exclusively female, starring MechaOrtiz, Olga Zubarry, Aída Luz, Alba Mujica and Elsa Daniel as characters whose...
Vidas marcadas is a 1942 Argentine film. MechaOrtiz as Malena George Rigaud Sebastián Chiola Roberto Fugazot Haydeé Larroca Alberto Terrones Cayetano...
written by American writer and actress Clare Boothe Luce and also starred MechaOrtiz. In one of the scenes, Bence appeared bathing in a tub full of foam....
younger sister of MechaOrtiz, yet had already made a name for herself when Ortiz embarked on an acting career. Varela helped Ortiz secure a screen test...
Menta for Cuando en el cielo pasen lista Best Actress (Mejor Actriz): MechaOrtiz for El canto del cisne Best Supporting Actor (Mejor Actor de Reparto):...
Scott's novel Peggy Thorpe-Bates in the BBC series Queen's Champion (1958) MechaOrtiz in the Argentinian drama Elizabeth Is Dead (1960), about Elizabeth's...
Marilina Ross as Eugenia Alonso Juan José Camero as Ezequiel Labourdé MechaOrtiz as Amalia Pradere Luisina Brando as Amalita Flora Steinberg as Mercedes...
Héctor Olivera, filmmaker Alberto Olmedo, comedian Palito Ortega, singer MechaOrtiz, actress Fito Páez, songwriter and rock keyboard player Pappo (Norberto...
reluctantly married, divorced, and rejected by her daughter. Fernando Lamas MechaOrtiz Juan Jose Porta Elena Lucena Severo Fernandez La Rubia Mireya at IMDb...
Gómez Cou and MechaOrtiz. Editing to the film was performed by Carlos Rinaldi. Florencio Parravicini as Cándido Melgarejo MechaOrtiz as Clotilde Contreras...
Theater, including Luis Arata, Amelia Bence Olinda Bozán, Gloria Guzmán, MechaOrtiz Enrique Muiño, Florencio Parravicini, Juan Carlos Thorry performed there...
film The Grandfather which starred actors such as Enrique Muino and MechaOrtiz. Welsh appeared as a member of the jury at the 16th Berlin International...
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