María la del Barrio
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| María la del Barrio | |
|---|---|
| Format | Telenovela, Drama, Romance |
| Created by | Televisa |
| Directed by | Marta Luna Beatriz Sheridan |
| Starring | Thalia Fernando Colunga |
| Theme music composer | Emilio Estefan Jr. and Kike Santander |
| Opening theme | "Maria la del Barrio" by Thalia |
| Country of origin |  Mexico |
| Language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 93 episodes |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
María de Jesús Arellano Arlene Lopez |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | El canal de las Estrellas |
| Picture format | 480i SDTV |
| Original airing | 1996 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Marimar |
María la del Barrio is a Mexican telenovela which starred Thalía, Fernando Colunga and Itatí Cantoral. It was produced and broadcasted on Televisa in 1996. It was also transmitted on Univision in the United States in 1996, and on REN TV in Russia. It won the prize of best telenovela in 1997. It is a remake of Los ricos también lloran which featured Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells.[1] It was recently shown again on Univision in 2006, and on XEQ-TV in 2007.
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[edit] Plot
María Hernández, later De la Vega, is a 15-year-old scavenger who lives on the outskirts of the city. She loses her godmother, who before dying, begs the local priest not to leave María to fend for herself. The priest asks one of his benefactors to please let Maria work as a servant in his house. Instead, Don Fernando de la Vega brings her in as his ward, making her a target of hostility for his wife, Victoria de la Vega, and her niece, Soraya Montenegro.
María falls in love with the dashing but drunken and disorderly son of the house, Luis Fernando de la Vega, and must fight Soraya for his affections. When Luis Fernando and María finally get married, he walks in on an innocent embrace between María and his brother Vladimir and storms out blinded with jealousy. He does not believe María's baby is his, so when it is born, Maria gives it away during a temporary bout of insanity. Luis Fernando rescues her from an asylum and adopts another child for her, but she never loses hope of recovering the son she lost. She was successful in recovering her lost son named "Fernandito" who grew up to be a respectable and good looking young man, thanks to Agripina Perez, who María gave her child to. When Soraya comes back to get revenge on Maria for "luring" Luis Fernando away from her (in reality Soraya lured him to marry her originally under false pretenses before he married María), she ends up seducing Fernandito and for a time turns him against María.
[edit] Facts
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- This telenovela was the third and final novela in the "María Trilogy". The first was María Mercedes and the second was Marimar.
- This telenovela was filmed at Las Lomas de Chapultepec in Mexico City.
- In 1997, María la del Barrio was sold to more than 45 countries around the world including the Middle East, which was dubbed into Arabic by Lebanese TV station LBC, whom originally dubbed María Mercedes as well, although their competitors Future TV managed to dub and broadcast Marimar.
- It remains to be one of the most successful Latin American soap operas of the 90s and possibly of all time.
- It has had four reruns in Brazil, on channel SBT. The 4th aired from 2007 through 2008.
- In Brazil, the first and second exhibitions had very high ratings, beating its rival, Rede Globo.
- In Poland appeared in double episode per 30 minutes each. With this kind of running, the show had 185 episodes.
- In Poland the show was shown before María Mercedes and Marimar. This caused some confusion when the Polish TV later broadcast the two other series.[citation needed]
[edit] Awards
- TVyNovelas Award-1997: The best telenovela of the year
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Thalia as María Hernández de la Vega
- Fernando Colunga as Luis Fernando de la Vega
- Irán Eory as Victoria de la Vega
- Ricardo Blume as Don Fernando de la Vega
- Itatí Cantoral as Soraya Montenegro de la Vega Montalban
- Ludwika Paleta as María de los Ángeles 'Tita' de la Vega Hernández
- Osvaldo Benavides as Fernando 'Nandito' de la Vega Hernández
- Ana Patricia Rojo as Penelope Linares
- Carmen Salinas as Agripina Perez
[edit] Cast
- Héctor Soberón - Vladimir de la Vega
- Tito Guizar - Padre Honorio
- René Muñoz - "El Veracruz"
- Roberto Blandón - José María Cano "Papacito"
- Emilia Carranza - Raymunda
- Meche Barba - Lupe
- Silvia Caos - Calixta Popoca
- Pituka de Foronda - "Seño" Caro
- Yuliana Peniche - Alicia Montalban Smith
- Ariadna Welter - Esperanza Calderón
- Aurora Molina - Casilda
- Frances Ondiviela - Cecilia
- Ariel López Padilla - Daniel
- Antonio Medellín - Doctor Carreras
- Ninón Sevilla - Caridad
- Jessica Jurado - Veronica Robles del Castillo
- Lilia Machel - Matilde
- Enrique Lizalde - Abelardo Armenteros
- Montserrat Gallosa - Vanessa de la Vega
