Mercedes Vecino

Mercedes Vecino Francés (4 February 1916 – 28 August 2004) was a Spanish film actress. She was famous as the woman who gave "the first kiss" in Spanish cinema.

Biography Vecino was born in Melilla, Spain, located next to Morocco in North Africa, and died in Alicante, Spain. She was the daughter of a military man, married first to actor José Jaspe, and then to José Vaquero, (also known as Pepe), artistic representative of well-known folklorics such as Lola Flores or Carmen Sevilla. She had a daughter Mar Vaquero. She developed her professional career in Barcelona and then in Alicante, where she found the weather suited her health better.

In 1944, Vecino left film work to focus on her theater career. She returned to the big screen with the 1959 production Where Are You Going, Alfonso XII?

In the 1960s, Vecino acted in supporting roles in films by Pedro Lazaga such as La verbena de la Paloma, Currito de la Cruz, Es mi hombre, and What do we do with the children? She also appeared in Pepa Doncel, by Luis Lucia.

Vecino died in Alicante in 2004 at the age of 88.

Selected filmography We Thieves Are Honourable (1942) El abanderado (1943) The Scandal (1943) Lessons in Good Love (1944) Where Are You Going, Alfonso XII? (1959) Darling (1961) The Fair of the Dove (1963) Currito of the Cross (1965) He's My Man! (1966) Pepa Doncel (1969)