Apuesta por un amor

Apuesta por un amor
Created by	Bernardo Romero Pereiro
Written by	Gabriela Ortigoza Juan Carlos Alcalá
Directed by	Alfredo Gurrola
Starring	Patricia Manterola Juan Soler Alejandra Ávalos Roberto Palazuelos Mónika Sánchez Jorge Vargas
Theme music composer	Consuelo Velázquez
Opening theme	Que seas felíz by Luis Miguel
Ending theme	Que seas felíz by Luis Miguel
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	130
Production
Executive producer(s)	Angelli Nesma
Producer(s)	Ignacio Alarcón
Editor(s)	Octavio Lopez Alfredo Juárez Daniel Rentería
Cinematography	Ernesto Arreola Héctor Márquez
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Televisa
Original run	October 25, 2004 – April 22, 2005
Chronology
Preceded by	Rubí
Followed by	Contra viento y marea
External links
Website

Apuesta por un Amor (Gambling on Love) is a Mexican soap opera starring Patricia Manterola and Juan Soler with Alejandra Ávalos and Roberto Palazuelos.

Plot

Julia Montaño is the daughter of Don Julio Montaño, a wealthy landowner in the Yucatán Peninsula. She's a beautiful, strong-willed and sometimes arrogant young woman, who flouts her father's will and the customs of their small town by spending her days herding cattle and overseeing the management of her father's ranch. She has two siblings - Álvaro, a dissipated young man who spends the majority of his time chasing girls and getting drunk, and Soledad, a beautiful and ingenuous young girl who falls in love with Gabriel Durán, the handsome gamester and ex-lover of their greedy step-mother Cassandra, who moves to San Gaspar after winning the hacienda of Don Ignacio (Don Julio's closest friend) in a poker game. Don Ignacio's son, Francisco, has been in love with Julia, but after discovering that he has become involved with the town harlot, Eva, spurns him for Gabriel.

Julia doesn't let herself be domesticated by anyone, but despite all the disagreements, she has to admit she is deeply in love with Gabriel. Nevertheless, after she catches him cheating her with Eva, Julia declines his marriage proposal. Although she claims to utterly hate him, she eventually accepts to marry him, only to save her family's fortune Don Julio foolishly lost in a bet with Gabriel. At first their marriage is full of fights and hateful words as Julia is determined to make Gabriel pay for his faults, but her heart softens after giving birth to their son. Things seem to look up for them and they start living as a normal couple, but the real troubles are yet to come …

Cast

• Patricia Manterola as Julia Montaño - main heroine,in love with Gabriel
• Juan Soler as Gabriel Durán - main hero,in love with Julia
• Alejandra Ávalos as Cassandra Fragoso - main female villain,killed by police
• Roberto Palazuelos as Francisco Andrade
• Eric del Castillo as Chepe Estrada-real father of Julia
• Mónika Sánchez as Eva Flores
• Jorge Vargas as Julio Montaño
• Dacia González as Nana Clara García
• Roberto Ballesteros as Justo Hernández
• Socorro Bonilla as Lázara Jiménez
• Tony Bravo as Camilo Beltrán
• Arsenio Campos as Ignacio Andrade
• Maleni Morales as Esther Andrade
• Alfonso Iturralde as Prof. Homero Preciado
• Roberto D'Amico as Padre Jesús
• Jaime Lozano as Braulio Serrano
• Justo Martínez as Macario Trujillo
• Héctor Sáez as Cayetano Cruz
• Fernando Robles as Marcial
• Alejandro Rábago as Lorenzo Pedraza
• Fabián Robles as Álvaro Montaño - main male villain,ends up in jail
• José María Torre as Luis Pedraza
• Francesca Guillén as Matilde Cruz
• Julio Mannino as Leandro Pedraza
• Lorena Enríquez as Soledad Montaño
• Juan Ángel Esparza as Samuel Cruz
• Benjamín Rivero as Ramón Cabrera
• Carmen Becerra as Nadia Thomas
• Elsa Navarrete as Lucero Beltrán
• Manuela Imaz as Gracia Ferrer

Awards

References

External links

• Apuesta por un amor at the Internet Movie Database