Cuidado con el ángel

Cuidado con el ángel
Created by	Delia Fiallo
Written by	Carlos Romero
Directed by	Víctor Manuel Fouilloux Victor Rodriguez
Starring	Maite Perroni William Levy Helena Rojo Ana Patricia Rojo Laura Zapata Ricardo Blume Evita Muñoz "Chachita" Maya Mishalska
Theme music composer	Mauricio Arriaga Jorge Eduardo Murguía
Opening theme	"Solo Tú" by Gaby
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	195 [1]
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nathalie Lartilleux
Editor(s)	Alfredo Frutos Maza Pablo Peralta
Location(s)	Mexico City
Cinematography	Jesus Acuna Lee Adrian Frutos
Camera setup	Multicamera setup
Running time	38-42 minutes
Production company(s)	Televisa
Distributor	Televisa
Release
Original network	Canal de las Estrellas
Picture format	NTSC
Original release	June 9, 2008 – March 6, 2009
Chronology
Preceded by	Al diablo con los guapos
Followed by	Atrévete a soñar
Related shows	Una muchacha llamada Milagros (1974)
External links
Website

Cuidado con el ángel (English title: Don't mess with an Angel^[2]) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is an adaptation of the Venezuelan telenovela, Una muchacha llamada Milagros produced in 1974 by Venevisión.^[3] Each episode garnered nearly 5 million viewers daily.^[4]

Maite Perroni and William Levy star as the protagonists. Ana Patricia Rojo, Arturo Carmona, Rocío Banquells, Laura Zapata, Nailea Norvind, and Michelle Vieth star as the antagonists. Helena Rojo, Ricardo Blume, and Evita Muñoz "Chachita" are the first actors.

Plot

María de Jesus, better known as Marichuy, is humble young girl living with Candelaria, a laundress who gave her a home when she was wandering on the streets. Candelaria is like a mother to Marichuy because she never met her biological mother as she was left in an orphanage when she was a baby. The abandonment has led her to believe her mother never loved her. Marichuy's biological mother, Cecilia Velarde, entrusted her baby to a priest, named Father Anselmo, who took the baby to an orphanage, after she thought she was dying. Now, she regrets making that decision and has spent most of her life searching for her lost child.

Marichuy also hides a horrible secret. At the age of 14, Marichuy ran away from the orphanage, and began to live on the streets, doing her best to survive. One night, she was attacked by a drunk man. She cannot seek justice for what happened to her because she did not see the man's face very well since she was attacked late at night. This experience, as well as having terrible recurrent nightmares, leaves her with a deep resentment towards men.

Juan Miguel San Roman is a prestigious psychiatrist & did eye surgery who has dedicated his time to the rehabilitation of young rebels and criminals. This serves as a distraction from his failing marriage to his wife Viviana and a horrible crime he committed during his youth while he was drunk. Once again, destiny brings Juan Miguel and Marichuy together when she is arrested with a group of friends. From that point, he vows to help Marichuy and he takes her to Judge Patricio Velarde's home, a very strict, heartless man, who is also her biological father.

As soon as Marichuy steps foot into the house, Cecilia welcomes her with open arms, but Judge Patricio despises her from the start due to her lack of manners. She also is not well received by the Velarde's daughter, Estefanía and her aunt, Isabela. Estefanía is not the Velarde's real daughter. She and her aunt schemed up a plan to have Cecilia believe that she had found her daughter, that way, they would both move into their mansion and not live in poverty anymore.

Eventually, Marichuy and Juan Miguel fall in love and get married. On their wedding night, Marichuy has the same nightmare, but this time she is able to recognize the man's face which happens to be Juan Miguel, the love of her life. Marichuy runs out of the hotel room, devastated. Juan Miguel runs after her and tries to calm her. She apologizes but then Juan Miguel confesses that her nightmares were, indeed, true. This enrages Marichuy and she runs off once more and takes a bus back to Mexico City.

Unfortunately the novela does not end here. The next stage of the novela is Juan Miguel constantly begging Marichuy to forgive him and she badly rejecting him. She later finds out she is pregnant from him and decides to forgive him. Turns out however, that Juan Miguel's first wife Viviana is still alive and she returns pretending she lost her memory. Juan Miguel thinking Marichuy came to beg him for a divorce instead of coming to forgive him, screams about Viviana's return before Marichuy has a chance to speak. Devastated Marichuy leaves and hides out in a farm for half of the novela (possibly even more).

Then begins the third stage of the novela. This stage consists of pregnant Marichuy hiding out in a farm of guy name Omar while taking a fake name of Lirio. While she is in the farm Omar falls in love with Lirio (really Marichuy) and she agrees to marry him, and she also has Juan Miguel's kid. Everything appears to be going well for Marichuy meanwhile Juan Miguel is missing Marichuy and is taking care of his supposedly memory-free wife, Viviana who gets more annoying by the second. He hires a nanny, Bianca to take care of his daughter Mayita who turns out to have multiple personality disorders and her other personality, Ivette stabs Viviana, killing her. Juan Miguel takes the blame for the murder trying to help poor innocent boring Bianca (yeah like letting an unpredictable murderer free in your house with your daughter is a good idea). Well Marichuy sees of his imprisonment in the newspaper and decides to go back, standing Omar up before their wedding, to hep Juan Miguel. However, Juan Miguel gets freed since Bianca confesses it was her (or at least kinda her since it was her other personality Ivette). He then decides to marry Bianca in order to help her and make her feel supported (again really smart idea letting an unpredictable murderer near your daughter).

Marichuy gets back but discovers Juan Miguel is engaged to Bianca and is heart-broken. She knows she lost Omar for coming back to help Juan Miguel so she doesn't know what to do and decides to resume acting (having previously acted before hiding out in the farm). She starts working as a theater actress to support herself and her child, as well as Candelaria. Omar comes looking for her and turns out he is friends with Juan Miguel and they both talk about their great love for a woman without knowing it is the same woman. At some point they discover Marichuy and Lirio are the same woman and Juan Miguel discovers he has a son with Marichuy. Many things happen but at the end of this stage of the novela Omar and Bianca get together and Marichuy goes blind.

Unfortunately, this is not enough for Marichuy and Juan Miguel to finally get together. Many other things happen in the novela, like; Marichuy losing her kid, Marichuy finding out she is a Velarde and forgiving her parents (after many episodes of hating them), Juan Miguel becoming an eye surgeon ( extremely fast to be honest), Juan Miguel pretending to be someone else to be close to Marichuy since she is blind, and many other like Juan Miguel getting drugged and arguably raped (by Ana Julia another crazy villain, and Juan Miguel giving Marichuy her sight back through a surgery (again I'm not sure he is qualified with so little training). At the end, after a bunch of unnecessary challenges, and I mean A BUNCH, Juan Miguel and Marichuy finally get married again living happily ever after with their two kids.

Cast

Actor	Character
Maite Perroni	María de Jesus "Marichuy" Velarde Santos de San Roman / Lirio / Alejandra Robles
William Levy	Juan Miguel San Roman Bustos / Pablo Cisneros
Helena Rojo	Cecilia Santos de Velarde
Ricardo Blume	Patricio Velarde
Laura Zapata	Onelia Montenegro Vda. de Mayer
Nailea Norvind	Viviana Mayer Montenegro de San Román
Ana Patricia Rojo	Estefania Rojas / Estefania Velarde Santos
Michelle Vieth	Ana Julia Villasenor
Rocio Banquells	Isabella Rojas
Arturo Carmona	Amador Robles
René Strickler	Omar "El Leopardo" Contreras
Sherlyn	Rocio San Roman Bustos de Velarde
Evita Muñoz "Chachita"	Candelaria Martínez
Miguel Corcega Hector Gomez	Padre Anselmo Vidal
Maya Mishalska	Blanca Silva de Contreras / Ivette Dorleaque
Victor Noriega	Daniel Velarde
África Zavala	Elsa Maldonado de San Roman Vda. de Acuña
Abraham Ramos	Adrían Gonzalez
Georgina Salgado	Purita
Jorge da Silva	Eduardo Garibay
Ana Isabel Corral	Beatríz de Garibay
Elizabeth Dupeyrón	Luisa San Roman de Maldonado
Jesús More	Vicente
Mauricio Mejía	Israel Pérez
Kelly Kellerman	Becky Mendoza de Pérez
Saraí Meza	María Antonieta "Mayita" San Roman Mayer
Beatríz Aguirre	Mariana Bustos de San Roman
Carlos Cámara Jr.	Inspector Cimarro
Francisco Rubio	Rafael Cimarro

Soundtrack

1. Solo Tu (La Nueva Banda)
2. Esta Soledad (Maite Perroni)
3. Contigo (Maite Perroni)
4. Separada De Ti (Maite Perroni)
5. Ave Maria (Maite Perroni)
6. Como Duele (Maite Perroni)
7. Si Tu No Vuelves (Miguel Bosé)
8. Lejos Estamos Mejor (Motel)
9. Niño (Belanova)
10. No Me Quiero Enamorar (Kalimba)
11. Un Dos Un Dos Tres (El Simbolo)
12. Digale (David Bisbal)
13. Caricia De Mi Alma (Maya Mishalska)

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated	Result
2008	TV Adicto Golden Awards	Female Revelation	Maite Perroni	Won
		Male Revelation	William Levy	Won
		Best Couple	Maite Perroni and William Levy	Won
2009	TVyNovelas Award	Best Telenovela of the Year	Nathalie Lartilleux	Nominated
		Best Young Lead Actress	Maite Perroni	Won
		Best First Actress	Helena Rojo	Won
		Best Original Story or Adaptation	Delia Fiallo	Nominated
		Best Direction	Víctor Manuel Fouilloux and Víctor Rodríguez	Nominated
	Premios Juventud	What a Hottie!	William Levy	Won
		Girl of my Dreams	Maite Perroni	Won

References

1. Televisa's Cuidado con el ángel
2. "Don't mess with an angel". televisainternacional.tv. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
3. Alargan la telenovela 'Cuidado Con El Ángel'
4. Juarez, Vanessa. "Telenovelas: Inside the Bold, Beautiful & Totally Bizarre World of Univision Soaps". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 19, 2014.