Meche Barba
María la del barrio, the third telenovela in the Las Tres Marías trilogy, is a Mexican telenovela starring Thalía, Fernando Colunga, Itatí Cantoral, Ricardo Blume, Irán Eory and the young actors Ludwika Paleta & Osvaldo Benavides. It was produced and broadcast on Televisa in 1995–1996. The series is a remake of Los Ricos También Lloran, which featured Verónica Castro, Rogelio Guerra and Rocío Banquells. María la del barrio is considered one of the most popular and successful telenovelas ever, having been broadcast in over 180 countries and watched by more than two billion people.
María Mercedes is a Mexican telenovela directed by Beatriz Sheridan and starring Thalía and Arturo Peniche. It was the first of the "Marias" telenovela trilogy, being followed by María la del barrio and Marimar.
Young woman miraculously rises from runway model to internationally-acclaimed film star in a few months' time because she's sorta pretty and stuff. Then she decides to get even with an ex-boyfriend who left town for a job and forgot about her.
A circus dancer marries a famous singer, but is threatened when a figure from her past blackmails her.
Man in the final stages of a fatal illness gets immersed in a new romance and a murder investigation.
Two young sweethearts get married, and then are made to believe that she's his illegitimate half-sister.
Teenaged slum-girl falls into show-biz by accident and rises to the tuxedos-and-furs class. Gangster drama and heartbreak, so she goes back to her own social class at the end, even though other options were available to her.
Four brothers try to manage their careers and love-lives under the close supervision of a domineering mother.
Musicians/dancers look for their big show-biz break while dealing with a melodrama/crime activity that involves an abusive husband, a lecherous employer and a heroin lab.
A shoe-clerk's aunt and uncle send him to a remote fishing village to retrieve a distant cousin and bring her back to the bosom of the family.
College students, ready to start entering adult society, are ashamed of their working-class backgrounds.
Bad guy who runs a ritzy nightclub is trying to keep his younger brother out of the gutter and get him into a professional career. Unknowingly, he takes up with his brother's fiancee. Also other complications.
Free-spirited young woman schemes different ways to trying to nudge her spinsterish older sister into falling in love and getting married.
Convicted on flimsy evidence of complicity in a jewel robbery, there's nothing he can do afterward to put his life in order. Downward spiral.
Young woman breaks her engagement to be married when an opportunity for stardom comes her way.
Sonora Mexico, 1880s: Seri Indian tribe splits into two factions after a white woman comes to live in their settlement.
After cohabiting with a man without benefit of marriage, a young woman discovers the emotional cost of her sinful perversity.
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
An underaged heiress is sent to a reformatory by her unscrupulous guardians to prevent her from fulfilling the conditions of her father's will. Meanwhile, a street-vendor gets mistaken for an eminent psychologist and is hired to teach at that reformatory.
After the mysterious disappearance of an oil well owner, one of his workers, Gerardo assumes the business management. Soon, the owner's sister arrives from Argentina, and, believing that Gerardo killed her brother to keep the wells for himself, she starts working as a singer under a false name in the same casino her brother disappeared, in order to find out what exactly happened.
Theatrical troupe schemes to expose corrupt dealings in local government.
