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Meche Barba (born Mercedes Barba Feito; September 24, 1922 – January 14, 2000) was a Mexican film actress and dancer of the Golden age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. She was considered one of the icons of the " Rumberas film ".
The Rumberas film (in Spanish, Cine de rumberas) was a film genre that flourished in Mexico's Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Its major stars were the so-called rumberas, dancers of Afro-Caribbean musical rhythms. The genre is a film curiosity, one of the most fascinating hybrids of the international cinema.
Aventurera ("Adventuress" in English) is a 1950 Mexican drama film directed by Alberto Gout and starring Ninón Sevilla and Andrea Palma. It's considered a masterpiece of the Rumberas film . The film features Pedro Vargas and Ana María González as club singers.
From 1935 to the 1950s, the Mexican and American film industry expanded the use of the term rumba as rumbera films became popular. [11] In this context, rumberas were Cuban and Mexican divas, singers and actresses who sang boleros and canciones , but rarely rumbas.
A feature of rumberas cinema were the exotic dances performed by women. In the image, Evangelina Elizondo performing at the Tropicana cabaret 1950. Tropical music that was popular in Mexico and Latin America since the 1930s was also reflected in Mexican cinema. Numerous music magazines were made in the 1940s and 1950s.
Maria Antonieta Pons (November 6, 1922 – August 20, 2004) was a Cuban-born Mexican film actress and dancer. She was the first actress in the Rumberas films in the 1940s and 1950s, in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. The Rumberas film genre offered a societal perspective on Mexico during the 40s-50s.
It took 26 years for death to catch up to Donald Ramon Ortiz. A member of the Mexican Mafia, Ortiz was cast out of the criminal organization in the mid-1990s after angering other members.
In the mid 1950s, the Rumberas film experienced a decline. Like other exponents of the genre, Rosa Carmina made fewer productions in this genre. In 1956 she filmed the Spanish-Mexican co-production Love Me with Music (1956), directed by Ignacio Iquino. The film was a great success in the Spanish market, making Carmina one of the few Mexican ...