Muchacha italiana viene a casarse (''Italian girl comes to get married'') is a 1971 Mexican
telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar drama genres around the world include '' teleserye'' ...
by
Televisa
Grupo Televisa is a Mexican multimedia mass media company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content.
In April 2021, Televisa and Univision Communications announce ...
produced by
Ernesto Alonso
Ernesto Alonso (February 28, 1917 – August 7, 2007) was a Mexican producer, director, cinematographer and actor. He was nicknamed "''El Señor Telenovela''" ("Mr. Soap Opera") because most of his work centered on telenovelas known around the w ...
Angélica María
Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944), known professionally as La novia de Mexico (Mexico's sweetheart), is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) peaked at No. ...
and
Ricardo Blume
Ricardo Cristóbal Blume Traverso (16 August 1933 – 30 October 2020) was a Peruvian actor and theatre director who developed most of his career in Mexico. His work encompassed theatre, cinema and TV. He was the founding teacher of the Teatro de ...
. Writing credits belong to Delia González Marquez (original story),
Fernanda Villeli
María Ofelia Villenave Garza, known as Fernanda Villeli, (14 May 1921 – 1 February 2009) was a Mexican writer and activist, who was one of the major writers of telenovelas in Mexico. She wrote for series such as '' Aprendiendo a amar'' (1980), ' ...
(adaptation),
Marissa Garrido
Marissa Garrido Arozamena (May 30, 1926 – January 8, 2021) was a Mexican telenovela playwright and writer who was most active in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. She wrote forty-five adaptations and sixty-five original stories for television. Her mos ...
(adaptation), Miguel Sabido (adaptation) and Carlos Lozano Dana (adaptation)
The series featured two theme songs: "A dónde va nuestro amor" and "Lo que sabemos del amor". Both songs were written by
Eduardo Magallanes
Eduardo is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the male given name Edward. Another version is Duarte. It may refer to:
Association football
* Eduardo Bonvallet, Chilean football player and sports commentator
* Eduardo Carvalho, Portuguese footb ...
and performed by
Angélica María
Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944), known professionally as La novia de Mexico (Mexico's sweetheart), is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) peaked at No. ...
.
Plot
Valeria and Gianna Donatti lived happily in Naples with his father, until he suddenly gets ill and dies, then the sisters must travel to Mexico City to meet with Vittorio Maglione, the fiance to Valeria. Valeria and Vittorio have never been seen since their marriage was arranged by her parents; so the two have no idea have no idea of how they appear. Believing Valeria will never arrive, Vittorio (the impatient fool he is) stops waiting.
Valeria and Gianna are lost in the city, when they get robbed and are practically on the street, at nightfall the concierge of a luxury apartment complex gives them stay in her room, finally gives Valeria Vittorio disappointment but this is an old man and Valeria decides not to marry him and to survive looking for job cleaning departments and friend Hilda ago Gianna falls ill and the doctor says Valeria need expensive treatment, while Hilda commits suicide and leaves power Valeria a letter.
Valeria reads the letter and decides to use it against Juan Francisco de Castro to blackmail him and make him marry her to pay for treatment of his sister, as Juan Francisco was the lover Hilda, same portraying him as responsible for his suicide. Before reaching the life of Juan Francisco, Valeria finds work in a couple's house very good people, and Teresa Vicente, who become friends and recommend Valeria Castro home.
After working at Juan Francisco, Valeria holds its plan and likewise discovers the opposition and enmity of Mercedes grandmother, uncle Hector and the wife of this, apart from Elena and Joseph Butler sinister mansion knows all the secrets of the old Mercedes and becomes the same helper in the task of removing Valeria their lives, Dulce cook becomes the mainstay of Valeria addition to Fanny, a friend of the family who discovers Valeria is the result of a love he had when he was admitted to a school in Naples. While Juan Francisco lives by Valeria resentful toward blackmail, gradually discovers that Valeria is the love of his life. The same applies to Valeria, who stops seeing Juan Francisco as a stranger and goes really falling for him.
Main cast
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Angélica María
Angélica María Hartman Ortiz (born September 27, 1944), known professionally as La novia de Mexico (Mexico's sweetheart), is an American-Mexican actress and singer-songwriter. Her songs El hombre de mi vida (The man of my life) peaked at No. ...
- Valeria Donatti''
* ''
Ricardo Blume
Ricardo Cristóbal Blume Traverso (16 August 1933 – 30 October 2020) was a Peruvian actor and theatre director who developed most of his career in Mexico. His work encompassed theatre, cinema and TV. He was the founding teacher of the Teatro de ...
- Juan Francisco de Castro''
* ''
Isabela Corona
Isabela Corona''Cronología de Teatro en México - 1926/10 (in Spanish) (July 2, 1913 – July 8, 1993) was a Mexican actress. She debuted during the first decade of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.
Biography
Isabela Corona was born as Refugi ...
- María Mercedes de Castro''
* '' Celia Castro - Fanny Iglesias del Campo''
* ''
Miguel Manzano
Miguel Manzano (14 September 1907 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – 21 January 1992 in Mexico City) was a Mexican actor during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, winning an Ariel Award in 1985, for best supporting actor for the film ''Las glo ...
- Vicente''
* ''
Nelly Meden
Nelly Meden (1928–2004) was an Argentine film, stage and television actress.Klossner p.81
Selected filmography
* ''White Horse Inn'' (1948)
* ''Los secretos del buzón'' (1948)
* ''La serpiente de cascabel'' (1948)
* ''The Unwanted'' (1951)
* ' ...
- Analia de Castro''
* ''
Aarón Hernán
Aarón Hernán (; 20 November 1930 – 26 April 2020) was a Mexican telenovela and film actor.
He had a medal called ''General Ángel Trías Álvarez''.
Biography
Family
Aarón Hernán was born on 20 November 1930, in Camargo, Chihuahua, M ...
- Patricio de Castro''
* ''
Silvia Pasquel
Sylvia Pasquel (born Silvia Banquells Pinal, 13 October 1949) is a Mexican actress.
Career
1960s
At the age of nineteen, Pasquel did her first movie, '' El Despertar del Lobo'' (''The Wolf's Awakening''). That movie was made in 1968, the year i ...
- Gianna Donatti''
* ''
Rafael Banquells
Rafael Banquells (born Rafael Banquells Garafulla; 25 June 1917 – 27 October 1990) was a Cuban-born Mexican actor, director and TV producer known in Mexico as Rafael Banquells (I).
Biography
Banquells was born on 25 June 1917 in La Habana, ...
- Joseph''
* ''
Hortensia Santoveña
Hortensia Santoveña (17 October 1912 – 11 July 1986) was a Mexican actress best known for her work in the films Eugenia Grandet (1953), Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970) and Talpa (1956). She was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Support ...
- Teresa #1''
* ''
Alicia Montoya
Alicia Montoya (January 25, 1920 – August 17, 2002) was a Mexican actress, the daughter of the stage actress .
Selected filmography
* ''Talpa'' (1956)
* ''El duende y yo'' (1959)
* ''Mujeres de Fuego'' (1959)
* ''Quinceañera'' (1960)
* '' ...
- Teresa #2''
* ''
María Rubio
María Rubio (September 21, 1934 – March 1, 2018) was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, ''Cuna de lobos
''Cuna de lobos'' (English: ''Cr ...
- Elena Harrington''
* ''
Socorro Avelar
Socorro Avelar (1925 in Cuernavaca, Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west b ...
- Dulce''
* ''
Eduardo Alcaraz
Alfredo Vergara Morales (13 April 1915 – 18 April 1987), best known by the stage name Eduardo Alcaraz, was a Chilean-Mexican actor. Born in Santiago, he was based in Mexico since 1951. He appeared in films such as '' Escuela de rateros'' (1 ...
- Vittorio Maglione''
* ''
Héctor Gómez
Héctor Alexis Gómez (born March 5, 1988) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Colorado Rockies and Milwaukee Brewers, and in the KBO League for the SK Wyverns.
...
Magda Guzmán
María Magdalena Guzmán Garza (16 May 1931 – 12 March 2015), better known as Magda Guzmán, was a Mexican film and television actress. She died of a myocardial infarction.
Filmography Films
Television
Archive footage
Awards ...
- Analia''
* ''
Lucía Méndez
Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez (born January 26, 1955) is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer. Méndez was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Career
In 2011, Lucía starred in Mexico the telenovela ''Esperanza del Co ...
César del Campo
César del Campo (1922–2008) was a Cuban film actor.Cotter p.86
Selected filmography
* ''Lola Casanova'' (1949)
* ''Confessions of a Taxi Driver'' (1949)
* ''Lost'' (1950)
* ''The Bandits of Cold River'' (1956)
* ''The Empire of Dracula
''The ...
- Ricardo''
* ''
Martha Zavaleta
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Susana Dosamantes
María del Perpetuo Socorro Guadalupe Susana Rul Riestra (9 January 1948 – 2 July 2022), known professionally as Susana Dosamantes (), was a Mexican actress. She won the 1990 TVyNovelas Best Antagonist Actress award for her role in the 198 ...
Raymundo Capetillo
Raymundo Sánchez y Capetillo, known as Raymundo Capetillo (1 September 1943 – 12 July 2020), was a Mexican theater, film, television and radio actor. He was also an economist by profession and an English teacher.
Career
Capetillo started out ...
''
* ''
Cristina Moreno
Cristina is a female given name, and it is also a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
*Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile), 11th-century English princess
*Cristina (singer), Cristina Monet-Palaci (1956–2020), American s ...
Martha Zavaleta, Alfonso Meza, Héctor Flores, Lucía Méndez, Susana Dosamantes, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Daniela Rosen, Atilio Marinelli, Héctor Gomez, Javier Ruan, Magda Guzmán and Hortensia Santoveña.
Original version
*''Muchacha italiana viene a casarse'' (1969, Argentina, Teleteatro) with
Alejandra Da Passano
María Alejandra Ana Da Passano (26 July 1947 – 30 June 2014), better known as Alejandra Da Passano, was an Argentine actress of film, stage and television. Her best known films were ''El Señor Presidente'' (1970), '' Malevo'' (1972), an ...
and
Rodolfo Ranni
Rodolfo Ranni (born 31 October 1937 in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian Argentine film actor.Rodolfo Ranni at the
Esa Provinciana'' (1983, Argentina) with Camila Perisé and
Juan José Camero
Juan José Camero (born September 15, 1943) is an Argentine film, television, and theatre actor.
Camero started out as an advertising model and worked his way into television roles. In the 1970s he did quite a lot of work in Argentine ''teleno ...
.
*''
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
'' (1987, Mexico) with
Victoria Ruffo
María Victoria Eugenia Guadalupe Martínez del Río Moreno-Ruffo (born May 31, 1962) is a Mexican actress notable for her roles in telenovelas.
Biography
1980s
Ruffo began her acting career in 1980, starring in supporting roles in teleno ...
and
Juan Ferrara
Juan Ferrara (born Juan Félix Gutiérrez Puerta; November 8, 1943) is a Mexican actor.
Family
Juan is a son of Ofelia Guilmáin and brother of Lucía Guilmáin y Esther Guilmáin. He was once married to the Mexican actress, Helena Rojo. He ...
Livia Brito
Livia Brito Pestana (born 21 July 1986) is a Cuban actress and model who gained popularity after making her acting debut in Televisa's telenovela ''Triunfo del amor''. She is also primarily known for her main protagonistic roles that are mostly ...