La Madrastra
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| Directed by | Eric Morales Édgar Ramírez |
| Written by | Arturo Moya Grau (original) Mauricio Aridjis, Julián Aguilar & Liliana Abud (adaptation) |
| Script by | Martha Olaíz |
| Cinematography by | Jesús Nájera Saro Lino Adrián Gama Esquinca (on location) |
| Produced by | Salvador Mejía Alejandre |
| Starring | Victoria Ruffo César Évora Jacqueline Andere Guillermo Garcia Cantu |
| Music by | Jorge Avendaño |
| Theme song | Víveme |
| Performed by | Laura Pausini |
| Country | Mexico |
| Language | Spanish |
| Network | Televisa |
| Broadcast | 2005 |
| No. of episodes | 120 |
La Madrastra (The Stepmother) is a Mexican telenovela that was produced by Televisa and broadcast on Univision in the United States in 2005.
It is a remake of the Chilean production of the same name of 1981 (which was originally written by Arturo Moya Grau and directed by Oscar Rodriguez). Two other productions were made as Vivir un poco (1985) with Angélica Aragón and Para toda la vida (1996) with Ofelia Medina in the starring roles.
The show got attention in the United States via E!'s The Soup which would have weekly recaps of the show and clips of its more outrageous moments. Host Joel McHale would often get excited talking about it, at one point stating "I can think of fifteen network shows I understand that aren't this good!"
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[edit] Storyline
Maria (Victoria Ruffo) is on a trip with her husband Esteban and other friends, when she finds her friend Patricia dead. She is accused of the murder and incarcerated. While in jail her husband divorces her. Everyone makes a pact to keep this a secret, Maria has two young children who have no idea that their mother is still alive, their father tells them that she died and everyone goes along with it.
Twenty years later Maria is let out for good conduct and is full of vengeance and hate. Her goal is to get back her children Hector and Estrella whom she loves very much. Maria makes her way back to the people that she once knew, and she finds out that there's a portrait of a woman in her ex-husband's house whom he has told their children that it's the picture of their mother. Every year they have a memorial service for the woman in the portrait. The woman in the portrait looks nothing like Maria. This angers Maria even further.
She eventually goes on to marry Esteban but her children do not accept her because they don't know that she's really their mother. They can never accept a stepmother. Esteban has another son Angel, but he's not really his son, he raised Angel as his own. It turns out that Angel is the son of one of his aunt's and to avoid scandal he has raised him as his own. Maria bonds with Angel, although she has a much harder time bonding with Estrella and Hector. Estrella is particularly rebellious because although she has everything a girl her age could want, she misses the love of her mother. Maria also finds out that one of Esteban's aunts, Alba has always been in love with Esteban and has always hated Maria. In the end, Maria gets back her children and uncovers the murderer of Patricia.
[edit] Cast
- Victoria Ruffo as Maria--main heroine
- Cesar Evora as Esteban--main hero
[edit] First Actors
- Jacqueline Andere as Alba--aunt of Esteban, blonde villain
- Ana Martin as Socorro--wife of DaVinci,mother of Greco and Lupita
- Margarita Isabel as Carmela--sister of Alba, aunt of Esteban
- Irma Serrano "La Tigresa" as Duquesa--owner of the Xochimilco restaurant
- Lorenzo de Rodas as Servando--business partner of Esteban
- Joaquin Cordero as Father Belisario
- Patricia Reyes Spindola as Venturina--maid of Servando,
[edit] Supporting Cast
- Eduardo Capetillo as Leonel--son of Patricia, in love with Lupita
- Guillermo Garcia Cantu as Demetrio--business partner of Esteban, husband of Daniela
- Cecilia Gabriela as Daniela-wife of Demetrio
- Rene Casados as Bruno--husband of Fabiola, business partner of Esteban
- Sabine Moussier as Fabiola--wife of Bruno, in love with Esteban, villain
- Ana Layevska as Estrella--daughter of Maria and Esteban, in love with Greco
- Mauricio Aspe as Hector--son of Maria and Esteban, in love with Vivian
- Mike Biaggio as Angel--son of Carmela, in love with Alma
- Michelle Vieth as Vivian--friend of Maria, in love with Hector
- Jose Luis Resendez as Greco--son of Socorro and DaVinci,in love with Estrella
- Mariana Rios as Lupita--daughter of Socorro and DaVinci,in love with Leonel,secretary at the Empresas San Roman
- Sergio Mayer as Carlos--in love with Estrella, son of El Pulpo, villain
- Martha Julia as Ana Rosa--niece of Daniela, in love with Esteban, villain, before the end good
- Monserrat Olivier as Patricia--murdered woman, mother of Loenel, villain
- Carlos Bonavides as Rufino Sanchez "El Pulpo"--father of Carlos
- Archie Lanfranco as Luciano--lawyer who freed Maria and Vivan from prison
- Marcelo Buquet as Gerardo Salgado--businessman in love with Maria
- Arturo Garcia Tenorio as "DaVinci"--husband of Socorro, father of Lupita and Greco
- Liza Willer as Rebeca--housekeeper at the San Roman Mansion
- Maria Luisa Alcala as Fanny--woman in love with Pulpo
- Diana Golden as Diana (interpreted Paricia in the cabin episodes)
- Ximena Herrera as Alma-- secretary at the Empresas San Roman, in love with Angel
[edit] Trivia about the novela
The novela was rerun in 2007 in the 6:00 P.M. slot on Televisa. Ten episodes were added to the end, with a different murderer from the original broadcast run. The murderer the first time around, in 2005, was Demetrio, portrayed by Guillermo Garcia Cantu. In the second version, in 2007, producer Salvador Mejia did not want to repeat the first version, so the assassin was Fabiola, portrayed by Sabine Moussier.
[edit] External links
- La Madrastra at the Internet Movie Database
- (Spanish) Official site on Televisa
