Cara Sucia (telenovela)
| Cara Sucia | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Venevision |
| Starring |
Sonya Smith Guillermo Dávila |
| Opening theme | "Antologia de Caricias" by Altamira Banda Show |
| Ending theme | "Antologia de Caricias" by Altamira Banda Show |
| Country of origin | Venezuela |
| Original language(s) | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 167 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multicamera |
| Running time | 42 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Venevisión |
| Picture format | SDTV, 480i |
| Audio format | Stereophonic sound |
| Original release | March 5, 1992 – October 12, 1992 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
La gata (1968) La fiera (1983) Rosa Salvaje (1987) María la del Barrio (1995) Por un beso (2000) Gata Salvaje (2002) Pobre Diabla (2010) La Gata (2014) |
Cara Sucia (Spanish: "dirty face") is a Venezuelan telenovela.
Produced by Venevisión and filmed in 1992, Cara Sucia presents the story of Miguel Angel Gonzalez (played by Guillermo Dávila) and Estrellita Montenegro (played by Sonya Smith, a Venezuelan-American actress, in the role that brought her to prominence).[1]
The show was also dubbed into English, Russian, Mongolian, and Filipino (Tagalog) in the Philippines.
Plot summary
Miguel Angel is a member of one of Caracas' richest families, while Estrellita is a poor but hard-working beautiful girl who sells newspapers in a corner every day to earn a living. When they met, it was love at first sight, and, as the story develops, they begin a beautiful romance that makes them begin to date and later get married.
However, not everything is pink for the young couple, and they have to survive many other things, such as:
- opposition by Miguel Angel 's parents, Horacio (Humberto Garcia) and Rebecca (Chony Fuentes)
- Horacio's declining mental health that makes him become more and more dangerous
- the obsessive passion that evil Santa Ortigosa (Miguel Angel 's ex, played by Gigi Zancheta) feels for Miguel Angel
- a partnership that Horacio creates with two drug dealers who end up murdered by him when he finds out they are using him
- the revelation that Estrellita's mother was killed by a younger Horacio because she left him for the man who would become Estrellita's father
- the kidnapping by Horacio of Miguel Angel and Estrellita's boy twins once Miguel Angel and Estrellita had married and begun a family.
Miguel Angel's mom, Rebecca, however, begins to relent on her opposition towards Miguel Angel and Estrellitas love once she realizes she was wrong about Estrellita (Rebecca thought at first that Estrellita was a gold digger), but it was her friend and Miguel Angel's ex, Santa who was the actual gold digger and that her husband wasn't the man he pretended to be.
Horacio who during the time had kidnapped the two twin baby boys grew to love them like his own sons, shoots himself after a police stand-off where the babies are wrestled away from him, while Santa dies when her car is driven off a cliff. Miguel Angel and Estrellita recover their babies and finally achieve the love and happiness they had hoped for, and Rebecca accepts her daughter-in-law and twin grandsons as new members of her family.
Cast
- Sonya Smith - Estrella Montenegro Campuzano
- Guillermo Dávila - Miguel Ángel González
- Gigi Zanchetta - Santa Ortigosa
- Humberto García - Horacio González
- Adolfo Cubas - Antonio González
- Eva Blanco - Candelaria Camacho
- Chony Fuentes - Rebeca
- Elio Rubens - Leonardo Montenegro (Estrella's father)
- Niurka Acevedo
- María A. Avalone
- Julio Capote - Fermín
- Solmayra Castillo - Deyanira
- Hans Christopher - Víctor Iriarte
- Helianta Cruz - Beba Ortigoza
- Rita De Gois - Carmen dos Santos
- Joel de la Rosa - Fabian
- Alexis Escamez
- Eduardo Luna - Kirikó (Ángel Vargas López)
- Alberto Marín - Padre Lombarito
- Ana Martínez - Asunción
- Ana Massimo
- Hilda Moreno - Coralia
- Enrique Oliveros - Oscar
- Simón Pestana - José Grigorio
- Marcelo Rodríguez - Agustín
- Chumico Romero
- Marcelo Romo - Carmelo
- José Ángel Urdaneta - Chuy
- Winston Vallenilla - Freddy
- Gil Vargas
- Hilda Blanco - Moncha
- Mauricio González - Fernando Guzmán
- Juan Carlos Baena - Fotógrafo
- Manolo Manolo - Doctor
- Humberto Buonocuore - Pepino
- Lizbeth Manrique - Loly
- Manolo Manolo - Doctor
- Swenn Luna - Policial
- Karina, hija de Rebeca
- Tamara San Diego (Emilia Landaeta en "Como tú, ninguna)
- Ileana, vecina de Candelaria
- Tomasa, abuela de Ileana (Remigia en "Como tú, ninguna")
- Federica, prima de Santa (Isabel en "Como tú, ninguna")
- Rocky, killer (Reynaldo en "Simplemente María)
- Gato (Miguel en "Como tú, ninguna")
- Juan, padre de Moncha (Guanabocoá en "María Celeste")
Theme Song
The song was Antologia de Caricias by Altamira Banda Show
Broadcasters
 Philippines | Cara Sucia | GMA Network | February 5, 2001 | August 3, 2001 | Monday to Friday | 2:30 pm |
 Spain | Cara Sucia | Antena 3 | March 15, 1993 | October 15, 1993 | Monday to Friday | 8:00 pm |
 USA | Cara Sucia | Univision UniMas | April 13, 1992 | November 6, 1992 | Monday to Friday | 9:00 pm |
 Mongolia | Cara Sucia | MNB | 1994 | ? | Monday to Friday | |
 Venezuela | Cara Sucia | Venevisión | March 5, 1992 | October 12, 1992 | Monday to Friday | 10:00 pm |
 Argentina | Cara Sucia | El Trece Magazine TV | May 7, 1994 April 5, 1999 | November 11, 1994 November 12, 1999 | Monday to Friday | 5:00 pm 8:30 pm |
 Paraguay | Cara Sucia | Telefuturo Unicanal | April 4, 1994 June 14, 1999 | December 9, 1994 February 4, 2000 | Monday to Friday | 6:00 pm 8:30 pm |
 Indonesia | Cara Sucia | SCTV | March 21, 1994 September 1, 1994 | August 29, 1994 September 5, 1995 | Monday Monday to Friday | 11:00 am 4:00 pm |
References
- ↑ Yolimer Obelmejías Valdez, "'Cara sucia' fue encantadora", El Universal, 20 October 2013 (in Spanish).