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María la del Barrio
Format	Telenovela, Drama, Romance
Created by	Televisa
Directed by	Marta Luna; Beatriz Sheridan
Starring	Thalía; Fernando Colunga; Itati Cantoral
Theme music composer	Emilio Estefan Jr. and Kike Santander
Opening theme	"Maria la del Barrio" by Thalía
Country of origin	Mexico
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	93 episodes
Production
Executive producer(s)	María de Jesús Arellano; Arlene Lopez
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	El canal de las Estrellas
Picture format	480i SDTV
Original airing	Mexico; July 24, 1995 - May 3, 1996; United States; March 19, 1999 - July 28, 1999; August 17, 2000 - December 27, 2000; November 27, 2001 - April 13, 2002; April 24, 2006 - September 6, 2006
Chronology
Preceded by	Marimar

María la del Barrio is a Mexican telenovela which starred Thalía, Fernando Colunga and Itatí Cantoral. It was produced and broadcast on Televisa in 1995-1996. It was also transmitted on Univision in the United States in 1996-1997 and 2001-2002, Galavisión in 1999 and 2000, and TeleFutura in 2006, and on REN TV in Russia. It is a remake of Los Ricos También Lloran which featured Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells.^[1] It was recently shown again on Univision in 2006, on XEQ-TV in 2007, and it is currently on XEW-TV El canal de las Estrellas since mid 2008

[edit] Plot

María Hernández, later De la Vega, is a 15-year-old scavenger who lives on the outskirts of the city. She loses her godmother, who before dying, begs the local priest not to leave María to fend for herself. The priest asks one of his benefactors to please let Maria work as a servant in his house. Instead, Don Fernando de la Vega brings her in as his ward, making her a target of hostility for his wife, Victoria de la Vega, and her niece, Soraya Montenegro.

María falls in love with the dashing but drunken and disorderly son of the house, Luis Fernando de la Vega, and must fight Soraya for his affections. When Luis Fernando and María finally get married, he walks in on an innocent embrace between María and his brother Vladimir and storms out blinded with jealousy. He does not believe María's baby is his, so when it is born, Maria gives it away during a temporary bout of insanity. Luis Fernando rescues her from an asylum and adopts another child for her, but she never loses hope of recovering the son she lost. She was successful in recovering her lost son named "Fernandito" who grew up to be a respectable and good looking young man, thanks to Agripina Perez, to whom María gave her child. When Soraya comes back to get revenge on Maria for "luring" Luis Fernando away from her (in reality Soraya lured him to marry her originally under false pretenses before he married María), she ends up seducing Fernandito and for a time turns him against María.

[edit] Facts

This telenovela was the third and final novela in the "María Trilogy". The first was María Mercedes and the second was Marimar.
This telenovela was filmed at Las Lomas de Chapultepec in Mexico City.
In 1997, María la del Barrio was sold to more than 45 countries around the world including the Middle East, which was dubbed into Arabic by Lebanese TV station LBC, whom originally dubbed María Mercedes as well, although their competitors Future TV managed to dub and broadcast Marimar.
It remains to be one of the most successful Latin American soap operas of the 90s and possibly of all time.
It has had four reruns in Brazil, on channel SBT. The 4th aired from 2007 through 2008.
In Brazil, the first and second exhibitions had very high ratings, beating its rival, Rede Globo.
In Poland appeared in double episode per 30 minutes each. With this kind of running, the show had 185 episodes.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Cast

[edit] Main cast

Thalía as María Hernández de la Vega
Fernando Colunga as Luis Fernando de la Vega
Itatí Cantoral as Soraya Montenegro de la Vega Montalban
Irán Eory as Victoria Montenegro de De la Vega
Ricardo Blume as Don Fernando de la Vega
Ludwika Paleta as María de los Ángeles 'Tita' de la Vega Hernández
Osvaldo Benavides as Fernando 'Nandito' de la Vega Hernández
Ana Patricia Rojo as Penelope Linares
Carmen Salinas as Agripina Perez

[edit] Additional cast

Héctor Soberón - Vladimir de la Vega
Tito Guizar - Padre Honorio
René Muñoz - "El Veracruz"
Roberto Blandón - José María Cano "Papacito"
Emilia Carranza - Raymunda
Rebeca Manríquez - Carlota
Meche Barba - Lupe
Silvia Caos - Calixta Popoca
Pituka de Foronda - "Seño" Caro
Yuliana Peniche - Alicia Montalban Smith
Ariadna Welter - Esperanza Calderón
Aurora Molina - Casilda
Frances Ondiviela - Cecilia
Ariel López Padilla - Daniel
Antonio Medellín - Doctor Carreras
Ninón Sevilla - Caridad
Jessica Jurado - Veronica Robles del Castillo
Daniel Gaurvy - Clemente Barena
Lilia Machel - Matilde
Enrique Lizalde - Abelardo Armenteros
Montserrat Gallosa - Vanessa de la Vega
Natasha Dupeyron- Perlita

[edit] Trivia

Thalía & Fernando Colunga worked together for the third-time since from 2 previous telenovelas Maria Mercedes & Marimar, but Thalia is a leading role & Fernando Colunga is a supporting & guest role and now he's a leading role of this series.
"Maria La Del Barrio" (Theme song) is also remake into Tagalog Version the title "Mariang Taga-Barrio" in a Thalia's Philippine Album "Nandito Ako".

[edit] References

^ María la del Barrio @ alma-latina.net as retrieved December 29, 2006.

[edit] External links

[0] María la del Barrio @ alma-latina.net as retrieved December 29, 2006.

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