20 Best Telenovelas of the 1970's
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- StarsVerónica CastroRogelio GuerraAugusto BenedicoMariana Villareal (Castro) finds herself homeless after her father dies and her stepmother takes over their hacienda.
- StarsJosé BardinaLupita FerrerEva BlancoLandowner Rodolfo Peñalver insists on taking his pregnant wife Blanca to his ranch. Blanca's pregnancy is at high risk, as she has had previous miscarriages and is recovering from measles.
- StarsJulissaJorge MistralJaime FernándezAt Rio Escondido, Lalo Coraje, a famous football payer, returns home to Rio Escondido, to his brothers Jeronimo and Juan and their parents, Ana and Sebastian Coraje. Also there is Pedro Barras, owner of a diamond mine; his wife Estrella works for the Corajes. The two families are rivals for power. Lalo is engaged to Paula, but he has an affair with Dr. Maciel's daughter Rita. Paula is pregnant and he marries her. Meanwhile, Pedro's daughter Clara returns to the country. She is schizophrenic and has a double personality: "Diana" is her good side and "Marcia" is her evil side. Juan meets and falls in love with Clara, but Pedro wants her to marry the noble Falcon. Estrella falls in love with Lorenzo and they try to kill Pedro. Jeronimo falls in love with Lina-Potira, an Indian, but she will marry Rodrigo. Jeronimo issues a policy against Pedro Barras, but Pedro has silly, drunken Dr. Maciel, corrupt inspector Falcon, and foreman Jose Matos on his side. In the end Falcon redeems himself and Jose Matos is revealed to be Pedro's illegitimate son with the maid, Dominga.
- StarsOfelia MedinaEnrique Álvarez FélixMaría Rubio"Rina" is a macabre telenovela that tells the rags to riches story of a poor hunchback and destitute girl who sells straw dolls in the street and eventually comes to inherit a large house and fortune. As the storyline progresses, it incorporates an occult theme. Rina sells dolls made of straws on the street to support her paraplegic father and younger brother and sister who attend school. One day she passes a house on the street owned by a rich man, Leopoldo, who sticks his head out the window and befriends Rina. Later, he manipulates her into marriage, although he is elderly and sick. Rafaela, Leopoldo's sinister and materialistic sister-in-law, wishes Leopoldo would die so she can inherit his fortune. Leopoldo, however, will have his revenge. Upon Leopoldo's suspicious death, it is learned during the reading of the will that Rina will inherit the house and all assets--but only if she agrees to live there. Rafaela will not inherit the house, but will be allowed to live there with her sister and son, Carlos Augusto. Naturally, this infuriates Rafaela, who with her sister concocts a sinister plan to disinherit Rina and make her leave the house, by getting Rina to marry Carlos Augusto. Her son Carlos Augusto opposes this idea. Once living in the house, Rina experiences strange and and inexplicable phenomenon that are difficult to explain. "Rina" premiered in 1977 and ran through January 1978. Its original bleak ending was changed. Remade as "Maria Mercedes" with Thalia in the nineties.
- StarsPierina EspañaJosé Luis Rodríguez 'El Puma'Carlos OlivierThis story of love, persecution and intrigue in the underground struggle against a dictatorship.
- StarsChelo RodríguezArnaldo AndréAlma IngianniAlthough she grew up in a humble environment, Rafaela became an educated young woman dedicated to the medical profession and helping others. In the hospital where she got a job, in addition to numerous professional challenges, Rafaela will also find love in her handsome colleague Juan Jose, but she will also reveal secrets from the past about her origins.
- StarsMiguel ManzanoSilvia PasquelAngélica MaríaItalian woman moves to Mexico to wed a man in an arrange marry.
- StarsJosé BardinaElluz PerazaAmérica AlonsoMistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.
- StarsMarina BauraElio RubensMarisela BertiFrom beyond the Meta, from beyond the Cinaruco, from beyond the Cunaviche. From farther that too far, according to the llaneros from the Arauca. From there came Barbara. A woman of dark origins. This is her story.