María, la del barrio

Television series
Original title	María, la del barrio
Country of production	Mexico
original language	Spanish
year	1995
Production company	Televisa
length	20 minutes
Episodes	185 in 1 season
genre	Telenovela
Theme music	Thalía - María, la del barrio
idea	Inés Rodena
music	Thalía
First broadcast	October 2nd, 1995 on Canal de las Estrellas

María, la del barrio is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa . It is based on Los ricos también lloran , a soap opera from 1979.

The main roles are Thalía and Fernando Colunga, with the antagonistic participation of Itatí Cantoral. It features star appearances by Ludwika Paleta, Osvaldo Benavides, Ana Patricia Rojo, Yuliana Peniche and the first actors Iran Eory, Ricardo Blume, Meche Barba, Carmen Salinas and Ariadna Welter.

In recent years, knowledge of telenovela has crossed Mexico's borders thanks to one of the scenes starring Itatí Cantoral and Yuliana Peniche. Due to the overactivity of all actors, the age-related inconsistency of the roles played and the failed staging of the scene, it has become a popular meme on the internet.

history

Part One (Chapters 1–22)

Thalía is "María, la del barrio"

María Hernández " María, la del Barrio " is a modest, uneducated and dreamy young woman who lives with her godmother Casilda on the outskirts of Mexico City . She works as a recyclable waste collector in a landfill and is deeply in love with an attractive man whom she sees every day in church, where she often goes. On the day of Maria's 15th birthday, her godmother dies and on her deathbed she asks Father Honorio to find a place for her goddaughter to work and live.

Maria is welcomed to the home of the businessman Fernando de la Vega, one of the most influential and wealthy men in the country. He teaches Maria manners and welcomes her as a member of the family, though his wife Victoria and the maid Carlota despise Maria from the first moment.

There, Maria meets the man she was in love with and who happens to be called Luis Fernando. The eldest son of the De la Vega Montenegro couple, recently left by his girlfriend Brenda, he swears not to get emotionally involved with women, but only to play with them. To this end, he first gets involved with Maria, but eventually falls in love with her. Soraya Montenegro, Victoria's proud niece, is in love with her cousin Luis Fernando and wants to marry him. Soraya also despises Maria at all times and describes her as " marginal " (German: the "wild" ).

Maria gradually wins the friendship and trust of the residents and employees of the manor, including Victoria, who changes her attitude towards Maria, as well as Lupe, the housekeeper, and Vladimir and Vanessa, the other children of the De la Vega couple. Soraya, who obsessively wants to conquer Luis Fernando, takes advantage of his drunkenness and takes him to bed. After showing him a false pregnancy test, she forces him to marry her even though he loves Maria. To forget Luis Fernando, Maria begins to go out with Vladimir. She also starts taking etiquette classes from Doña Caro, a teacher specially hired by Don Fernando to teach Maria good manners. Luis Fernando is also going through a personality change: he matures, stops drinking and starts to work in his father's company. He begins to suspect that Soraya is not pregnant, so he forces her to take another pregnancy test as she says she miscarried.

When Soraya marries Luis Fernando, she moves to the Villa de la Vega to live with her Nana Calixta (who has been looking after her since she was a child) and has a constant fight with Maria, who she hates more and more and decides to kill her. Calixta, who is also a healer and witch, helps Soraya put poisonous herbs in Maria's water. Maria begins to fall ill and is sent to the hospital, where she finds out the cause of the illness. Soraya has a lover named Osvaldo Treviño who discovers the evil plot and its threat; if she has not given him any money, Soraya goes to his house and kills him, then returns to the villa and beats Calixta believing that she told Osvaldo of her plan that leads him to reveal Soraya that she is is his true mother; Soraya throws her out of the villa full of hatred. The next morning, Osvaldo calls Soraya because she failed to kill him the way she thought and asks for money if she doesn't want him to report her to attempted murder. Soraya goes with him again, and in a fierce fight tries again to kill him, but eventually falls out of an apartment window. Luis Fernando is informed and when he visits her in the hospital, Soraya dies.

Part Two (Chapters 23-55)

After Soraya's death, Luis Fernando is free, but a conflict arises between him and his brother Vladimir, as María has to choose who to stay with. María chooses Luis Fernando and Vladimir, disappointed and upset, leaves the house because he can no longer bear to see her together. Luis Fernando and María finally marry happily, but during their honeymoon and even more so on their return to Mexico, because at the beginning of their marriage, Luis Fernando begins to suspect that María and her brother are lovers, and when Vladimir goes to the manor to himself to apologize to María for not showing up for her wedding, Luis Fernando sees them embracing. This causes Luis Fernando to abandon María. The De la Vega family goes to Spain to visit Vladimir, who lives there, and leaves María and Luis Fernando alone in the house.

María discovers that she is pregnant and finds support and friendship in Lupe, the housekeeper. She spends the entire pregnancy with personality disorders and depression in which she feels feverish and very ill. Shortly before the birth of her child, Luis Fernando sends a letter requesting a divorce to Maria, who leaves the manor in despair. On the street, Maria feels the pain of childbirth and is taken to a hospital where she gives birth to a son and calls him Fernando. She is released with her baby, mentally unbalanced and desperate she begins to roam the streets with her son in her arms. Desperate, she hands her child over to a humble woman named Agripina in a garden. María is admitted to a mental hospital, Luis Fernando returns to seek her for a divorce, but Lupe explains to him that María was never unfaithful to her brother and that she is missing. Luis Fernando regrets this and finds María and asks her to forgive him and learns of his son's disappearance. In an unsuccessful search for his baby and in an attempt to alleviate María's pain, he adopts a girl named María de los Angeles, who is nicknamed "Tita". María de los Ángeles, who has now recovered, accepts the child but decides to search tirelessly for her prodigal son. Lupe hires Penelope, her goddaughter, to look after Tita. Penélope treats Tita badly, falls in love with Luis Fernando and the two become lovers. After discovering the truth, María dismisses Penelope and asks Luis Fernando for a divorce. However, he asks María for forgiveness and she accepts her.

Fourteen years have passed and María, who was tirelessly looking for her son, could not find him. Fernando, simply called Nando, is now 15 years old and lived in a modest neighborhood next to his adoptive mother Agripina, who raised him very well, works as a lottery ticket seller and doesn't let his mother work. She decides to work secretly from her son and one night Agripina has an accident and is hospitalized. Unable to buy medicine for his mother, Nando is persuaded by a friend in the neighborhood to steal from a wealthy household. Without thinking, Nandito enters María's house and is caught by her and Luis Fernando, who arrives and points a gun at him. Nandito explains that he stole because he urgently needed money to buy medicine for his mother, who is in the hospital, but Luis Fernando takes him to the police station and is arrested. When Maria learns of this situation, she inquires at the hospital where Agripina is lying. Agripina says thanks after recovering and knowing she paid for the medication and, enjoying her trust, reveals to Maria that Nando is not her son and that a madwoman gave him to her fourteen years ago and confirms with the fact that Nando is the son she has been looking for for years. Agripina is very worried about Nando, and Maria says she hired him to work at her house. Maria begins to support him without his knowing that she is his real mother. Time goes by and Tita, now 16, thinks that Nando is her mother's lover. Penélope, now married to a villain, José María Cano "Papacito", returns to blackmail Maria by asking for money if she does not tell Tita that she has been adopted and tells everyone that Nando her lover is. In a conversation with Tita, María confesses that Nando is her son.

María Nando later tells that he is her son and that he moved to the De la Vega family to live with them. Luis Fernando, who moved out of the house without knowing he was her son, believes Maria brought her lover to her own house, takes his gun and goes to kill him. After trying to shoot Nando, Maria screams that he is her son, and Luis Fernando begins to cry. Maria hugs Nando and explains everything that happened to Luis Fernando. He asks Mary for forgiveness and she forgives him. Penélope and José María are arrested for extorting them.

Part Three (Chapters 56-89)

Soraya is fully recovering from the fall she suffered 18 years ago and lives in Texas in the United States. She marries the widower Oscar Montalbán, the father of Alicia, a 17-year-old girl with a disability, she murders him in a traffic accident, inherits all of his fortune and takes care of Alicia and her governess Esperanza. Soraya returns to Mexico, ready to take revenge on Maria and the De la Vega family. At first, she shows remorse for everything she has done and tries to convince the family. She meets and seduces Nando, they become lovers, he begins to visit Soraya's house, there he meets Alicia and Esperanza, who advises him to return home. Maria suspects that Soraya has not changed and that she is using Nando for her revenge. Nando finds Soraya making out with a man named Aldo and leaves her. Soraya becomes depressed and finds that her examiner is now in love with Alicia and forbids her to see him.

In an attempt to reconcile with Nando, Soraya organizes a party and invites him. Nando goes to Alicia, he gives her a kiss and Soraya sees her, she suffers from a psychopathic crisis with a hysterical attack in which she screams and insults everyone present. He attacks Alicia, hits Esperanza against the wall and injures Nando with scissors in his arm. Alicia is saved by Aldo, Esperanza loses her memory and Nando is admitted to a hospital. Maria faces Soraya, but she pretends to be innocent. Soraya is arrested, she is put on trial, but she comes out innocent. Calixta, now living like a beggar, arrives at Soraya's house and goes inside. Soraya finds her mother, and when she sees her mother she feels hatred, she pokes her, Calixta hits her on the head and dies. Initially, Nando is accused of the crime, but María, who has defended Nando, takes the blame and is convicted and imprisoned in a women's prison, where she meets Penelope and is humiliated and attacked by the inmates and herself. A big fire starts and Maria saves Penelope, but she disappears in the flames. This makes everyone believe María is dead. Penelope, after being saved by María, regrets all the evil she has done and decides to start a new life after her release from prison. Days later, Dr. Daniel Ordóñez María, who wanders the streets without memory and takes her home, where she is employed as a nanny for her two children, but Cecilia, a woman who loves Daniel, confronts Maria. Days later she poisoned the doctor's daughter, Perlita, and blames Maria. Daniel throws Cecilia out of the house after learning that it was she who poisoned his daughter. After an investigation, the prison director informs the De la Vega family that Maria is alive and possibly without memory.

Nando and his father get upset and decide to look for Maria on the street, but Agripina has a heart attack and is taken to the hospital, where she meets Maria, who takes Perlita to the emergency room. After much investigation, a letter that Dr. Mejía, Soraya's accomplice, who she killed in order not to continue giving her money for not revealing her secrets, revealed that Soraya killed Oscar Montalbán. Soraya flees the police and devises a plan to kill Maria. She disguises herself as a nurse, takes advantage of Maria's condition, tells her that she is a friend of the De la Vega family and that Tita is sick, and takes her away. Esperanza and Alicia watch this and tell the De la Vega family.

Finale (Chapter 90)

Agrippina is recovering from her heart attack. In the cabin where Soraya is holding María, Soraya pushes María and she falls, bangs her head and passes out. When she wakes up, she remembers everything, and Soraya begins to confess her crimes. Soraya throws gasoline around the cabin. Soraya's maid reveals where she may be, and Luis Fernando and the police go to the hut. Soraya sets the hut on fire, but accidentally sets herself on fire. Luis Fernando saves María, who tried to save Soraya, but she gets caught in the flames and dies. Two months later, María and Luis Fernando celebrate a new happy life with their children. Gracia, María's friend in prison, now works as a nanny for Dr. Daniel Ordóñez. Agripina marries Veracruz. Nando marries Alicia, who had an operation a few days ago so she could walk again. Maria reveals to Luis Fernando that she is pregnant again.

presentation

• Thalía - María Hernández Rojas de de la Vega "María la del barrio"
• Fernando Colunga - Luis Fernando De la Vega Montenegro
• Itatí Cantoral - Soraya Montenegro Vda. de Montalbán
• Irán Eory - Victoria Montenegro de de la Vega
• Ricardo Blume - Fernando De la Vega
• Carmen Salinas - Agripina Pérez
• René Muñoz - "El Veracruz"
• Ludwika Paleta - María de los Ángeles "Tita" De la Vega Hernández
• Osvaldo Benavides - Fernando "Nandito" De la Vega Hernández
• Ana Patricia Rojo - Penelope Linares
• Meche Barba - Guadalupe Linares "Magnifying Glass"
• Héctor Soberón - Vladimir De la Vega Montenegro
• Rebeca Manríquez - Carlota
• Raúl Padilla "Chóforo" - Urbano González
• Beatriz Moreno - Felipa
• Silvia Caos - Nana Calixta Popoca
• Tito Guízar - Padre Honorio (the priest)
• Ariel López Padilla - Dr. Daniel Ordóñez
• Sebastián Ligarde - Lic. Gonzalo Dorantes
• Ariadna Welter - Esperanza Calderón
• Enrique Lizalde - Abelardo Armenteros
• Mauricio Aspe - Aldo Armenteros
• Yuliana Peniche - Alicia Montalbán Smith
• Alejandra Procuna - Brenda Ramos del Real
• Manuel Saval - Óscar Montalbán
• Pituka de Foronda - Carolina Monroy "Seño Caro"
• Emilia Carranza - Raymunda Robles del Castillo
• Roberto Blandón - José María "Papacito" Cano
• Ninón Seville - Caridad
• Claudia Ortega - Antonia "Toña"
• Juan Antonio Edwards - Dr. Rodrigo Suarez
• Jessica Jurado - Verónica Robles del Castillo de Barrena
• Daniel Gauvry - Clemente Barrena
• Gloria Izaguirre - Marcela
• Arturo Muñoz - Dr. Ricardo Mejía
• Aurora Molina - Casilda Pérez
• Antonio Medellín - Dr. Carreras
• Lilia Michel - Sor Matilde
• María Prado - Rosenda
• Monserrat Gallosa - Vanessa De la Vega Montenegro
• Irma Torres - Matilda Chávez, directora del Reclusorio Femenino
• Enrique Muñoz - Agent Murillo
• Irlanda Mora - Grindelia "La Leona" Campuzano
• Rocío Sobrado - Gracia Valdés
• Patricia Martínez - Romelia Aguado
• Beatriz Monroy - Tísica
• Evangelina Martínez - Berta
• Marcela Matos - Marisela
• Leonardo Daniel - Sr. Hinojosa
• Yadira Santana - Rufina
• Alejandro Tommasi - Dr. Keeler
• Graciela Bernardos - Dra. Giménez
• Frances Ondiviela - Cecilia
• Karla Graham - Glenda
• Jorge Cáceres - Osvaldo Treviño
• Sebastián Garza - Pedro
• Odiseo Bichir - Renato Jerez
• Rodrigo Abed - Bernardo
• Sara Montes - Elisa
• Javier Gómez - Miguel Rosales
• Carmen Salas - Natalia
• Eduardo Arroyuelo - El Manotas
• Roberto Ballesteros - El Fantasma
• Amara Villafuerte - Delia
• Julio Mannino - Canseco
• Lourdes Deschamps - Argelia
• David Ostrosky - Zabala
• Isabel Martínez "La Tarabilla" - Cutberta
• Óscar Bonfiglio - Chito
• Genoveva Pérez - Balbina
• Eva Calvo - Remedios Vda. de Ordóñez
• Javier Ruán - Zamora
• Ricardo Vera - Camilo Macías
• Eric del Castillo - Juez
• Araceli Ibarra - Aurelia
• Luigi Laguna - Cirilo
• Maribel Palmer - Hilda Rivas
• Lourdes Reyes - Elba Sánchez
• Margarita Magaña - Betty
• Esteban Moldovan - Carlos Ordóñez
• Natasha Dupeyrón - Perlita Ordóñez
• Armando Pascual
• Rafael Del Villar - Dr. Torres
• Hortensia Clavijo "La Kukara" - La Mendiga
• Aurora Cortés - Maruca
• Javier Herranz - Dr. Larios
• Roxana Saucedo - Sara
• Adriana Rojo - Luna
• Los Fantasmas Del Caribe
• Mariachi 2000 de Cutberto Pérez
• Vicky Rodel
• Alberto Chavez - Tomás
• Victor Fouilloux
• Gerardo Franco
• Luis Moreno
• Jaime Puga
• Graciela Estrada
• Roberto "Puck" Miranda
• Eric Archundia
• José de lá Ó
• Claudia Benedetti
• Brenda Mendoza
• Carmen Rodríguez
• Rafael Cortés
• Martha Álvarez
• Milagros Rueda - Roberta
• Victor Cordova
• Carlos Becerril - Voz Guacamaya
• José Puga
• Pilar Rojas
• Oscarín
• Helen Forcada
• Héctor Alemán
• Alejandro Hernández
• Jeannette Candiani - Carcerera Amada
• Libia Abihaid - Gloria
• Rafael Bazan
• Alfonso Tellez - Fernando "Nandito" de la Vega Hernández (niño)
• Ingrid Vargas - María de los Ángeles "Tita" de la Vega Hernández (María's daughter)
• Carlos Amador Padilla
• Carlos G. Rodrigo
• Cynthia Posner - Callejera
• Gabriela Ramírez
• Geraldine Bazán - Teresa
• José Antonio Estrada
• Raúl Askenazi
• Virginia Gimeno - Carcerera Vargas
• Guillermo Ortega Ruiz
• Eduardo Salazar - the reporter from prison

Manufacturing

• History : Inés Rodena
• Music : María, la del barrio by Thalía
• Producer (s) Emilio Estefan, Kike Santander

Web links

• María la del barrio in Internet Movie Database (in English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Maldita lisiada" es la mejor escena de la historia de telenovelas (y sus Protagonistas nos la explican) (Español) . 5 de febrero de 2016. Retrieved on 11 de octubre de 2019. 
2. ↑ Usuario recrea escena de 'María la del barrio' en Google Translate y causa sensación por el resultado (Español) . 16 de septiembre de 2019. Retrieved on 11 de octubre de 2019. 
3. ↑ História ( portugués ) In: Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão . Archived from the original on November 18, 2005. Retrieved on September 16, 2012.
4. ↑ Capítulo 01 - exibido em 02/08/2004 ( portugués ) In: Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão . Archived from the original on 13 de septiembre de 2005. Retrieved on 16 de septiembre de 2012.