Marimar (telenovela)

This article is about the original Mexican TV series. For the Philippine remake, see MariMar (Philippines TV series).

Marimar
DVD cover
Format	telenovela
Created by	Inés Rodena
Written by	Carlos Romero Valeria Phillips
Directed by	Beatriz Sheridan
Starring	Thalía Eduardo Capetillo
Theme music composer	Francisco Navarrete
Opening theme	Marimar by Thalía
Ending theme	Marimar by Thalía
Country of origin	Mexico
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	175
Production
Producer(s)	Verónica Pimstein
Editor(s)	Adrián Frutos
Cinematography	Carlos Guerra Villareal
Running time	45 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Televisa
Picture format	480i SDTV
Original run	January 31, 1994 – August 26, 1994
Chronology
Preceded by	Valentina
Followed by	Imperio de Cristal

Marimar is a Mexican TV telenovela that was originally broadcast in 1994 on Televisa. Marimar is a remake of the telenovela La Venganza, which aired on Televisa in 1977 and starred Helena Rojo and Enrique Lizalde.

Plot

Marimar is a poor young innocent girl who lives with her grandparents in a hut on the beach by the ocean. She falls in love with Sergio, the son of a wealthy magnate. Sergio agrees to marry Marimar despite his father and stepmother's disapproval, but along the way he falls deeply in love with her.

Sergio's stepmother, Angélica, despises Marimar because of her innocence and her lack of knowledge of the world of high society. Angélica constantly embarrasses Marimar, often diminishing her worth as an individual. Sergio becomes angry and decides to go away and earn money so he can take Marimar away from his father's house, and safe from Angélica's wrath. Angélica tells the police that Marimar stole a bracelet from her, and Marimar is sent to prison. Then Angélica sends one of her servants, Nicandro, to burn Marimar's grandparents' little hut, killing her grandparents in the process. Angélica forges Sergio's handwriting and writes a letter to Marimar stating that he wants nothing more to do with her and that he never loved her. All this, along with the impact of her grandparents’ deaths, changes Marimar and sets her on the road to revenge.

After leaving prison, Marimar then moves from her hometown to Mexico City with Padre Porres and works to get back on track. While on the road, she meets her biological father, without either him or her knowing of their relationship. He teaches her how to read, write, to speak eloquently, and to dress elegantly. She finds out she is pregnant, later gives birth to a daughter, Cruz.

After the new, improved Marimar is ready to face society, her biological father decides to take her to the opera, where she bumps into Sergio, and Marimar's plan for revenge begins. Fueled by anger, Marimar (assuming the identity of "Bella" and denying to Sergio and other people that she is Marimar) seduces Sergio constantly and then rejects his advances to hurt him, and at the same time strips Sergio's father and stepmother Angélica of their wealth. Marimar buys out the Santibáñez house and embarrasses Angélica the way she had embarrassed Marimar before. As Sergio divorces Marimar and gets ready to marry his childhood friend Inocencia, Marimar plans on breaking them up. Secretly, Sergio is still in love with Marimar.

Angélica then gets into a car accident and suffers severe burns. While on her deathbed, as her last wish, she wants Marimar burned alive in her house. Innocencia finds out that Sergio has been visiting Marimar and even tried to go to Marimar's house. The pregnant Innocencia falls and taken to the hospital, where she has her baby and is subsequently diagnosed with a brain tumor. Marimar decides to forget about Sergio by falling in love with another man who is an engineer. Innocencia then has brain surgery and, ashamed of all she has done, allows Marimar to eventually marry Sergio. They finally marry and live happily ever after.

Cast

• Thalía as Marimar 'Bella' Aldama Pérez
• Eduardo Capetillo as Sergio Santibáñez
• Chantal Andere as Angélica Santibañez
• Miguel Palmer as Gustavo Aldama
• Alfonso Iturralde as Renato Santibáñez
• René Muñoz as Padre Porres
• Marta Zamora as Perfecta
• Ada Carrasco as Mamá Cruz †
• Pituka de Foronda as Tía Esperanza
• Luis Gatica as Chuy
• Kenia Gazcon as Atonieta Lopez
• Daniel Gaurvy as Arturo
• Toño Infante as Nicandro Mejia
• Julia Marichal as Corazón
• Frances Ondiviela as Brenda
• Marisol Santacruz as Monica
• Tito Guízar as Papá Pancho †
• Guillermo García Cantú as Bernardo Duarte
• Ana Luisa Peluffo as Selva
• Agustín Manzo as Himself
• Manuel Negrete^{[disambiguation needed ]} as Himself
• Julio Canessa as Himself
• Alberto Santini
• Martha Ofelia Galindo as Josefina
• Rafael del Villar as Esteban
• Javier Gómez
• Nicky Mondellini as Gema
• Rosángela Balbó as Eugenia
• Ricardo Blume as Fernando Montenegro
• Juan Carlos Serrán as Ulises
• Amairani as Natalia Montenegro
• Marcelo Buquet as Rodolfo San Genís
• Serrana as Alina
• Indra Zuno as Inocencia del Castillo
• Hortensia Clavijo as La Kukara
• Rafael Bazán
• Alejandra Ley
• Patricia Navidad as Isabel
• Fernando Colunga as Engr. Adrian Rosales

Philippine remake

Main article: MariMar (Philippines TV series)

External links

• Marimar (telenovela) at the Internet Movie Database