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Mecha Ortiz

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Actress (1900-1987)

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Mecha Ortiz was an Argentine actress who appeared in films between 1937 and 1981, during the Golden Age of Argentine cinema.

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Filmography 39

Painted Lips1974
The Furies1960
Yesterday's Guys Used No Arsenic1976
Women Who Work1938
Mi novia es un fantasma1944
Las tres ratas1946
Madame Bovary1947
Dishonor1952
Safo, historia de una pasión1943
Margarita, Armando and his father1939
Piedra libre1976
My Life for Yours1951
Camino del infierno1945
Swan Song1945
Bajo un mismo rostro1962
House of Shadows1976
Las locas del conventillo1966
Vacaciones1947
La rubia Mireya1948
Last Refuge1941
Maestro Levita1938
El abuelo1954
La sombra de Safo1957
Vidas marcadas1942
Blessed be you1956
María de los Ángeles1948
El gran secreto1942
Sangre en Castilla1950
El mal amor1955
Aquel cine argentino1984
Joven, viuda y estanciera1941
Una mujer sin importancia1945
Melgarejo1937
Con las alas rotas1938
Los muchachos de antes no usaban gomina1937
El precio de una vida1947
Cartas de amor1951
Safo2003
Pájaros de cristal1955

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Rolando Rivas, taxista1972

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About this person

Mecha Ortiz was an 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.

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Country
Argentina
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1900 to 1987 · aged 87
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8 languages

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