Soy tu dueña

Soy Tu Dueña
Genre	Telenovela
Created by	Inés Rodena
Written by	Kary Fajer
Directed by	Salvador Garcini
Starring	Lucero Fernando Colunga David Zepeda Gabriela Spanic Sergio Goyri Jacqueline Andere Ana Martín Eduardo Capetillo
Opening theme	"Golondrinas Viajeras" by Lucero and Joan Sebastian[1]
Ending theme	"Golondrinas Viajeras" by Lucero and Joan Sebastian (Episodes 1-59) "Dueña de tu Amor" by Lucero (Episodes 60-142)
Composer(s)	Joan Sebastian[1]
Country of origin	Mexico
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	142
Production
Executive producer(s)	Nicandro Díaz González
Running time	60 minutes (with commercials)
Production company(s)	Televisa
Distributor	Televisa
Broadcast
Original channel	Televisa
Picture format	480i SDTV 1080i HDTV
Original run	April 19, 2010 (2010-04-19) – November 7, 2010 (2010-11-07)
Chronology
Preceded by	Corazon Salvaje
Followed by	Triunfo del Amor
External links
Website

Soy Tu Dueña (I'm Your Owner and Woman of Steel) is a telenovela starring Lucero, Fernando Colunga, Jacqueline Andere, David Zepeda, Sergio Goyri and Gabriela Spanic. It is the remake of La Dueña, produced by Florinda Meza, that aired in 1995. The telenovela began airing on Univision June 1, 2010, replacing the second hour that Corazón salvaje occupied. The telenovela was sold to 26 countries.

Plot

Valentina Villalba (Lucero) is a beautiful woman with a fortune that her parents left her when they died. She has a mansion in Mexico City, where she lives with her aunt Isabel Dorantes (Silvia Pinal) and her cousin Ivana (Gabriela Spanic). Valentina is engaged to Alonso (David Zepeda), but she doesn't know that Alonso is cheating on her with Ivana. Ivana has an additional lover, Oscar Ampudia (Claudio Baez), who is married. Ivana ends up running over Oscar with his car. Instead of simply informing her that he has changed his mind, Alonso stands up Valentina at their wedding. He has planned to run away with Ivana, but he ends up taking a differrent life.

Valentina decides to isolate herself at the hacienda Los Cascabeles, where she starts a new life. When she arrives at the hacienda she finds Rosendo Gavilan (Sergio Goyri) abusing Iluminada (Fatima Torre), a servant that works at Los Cascabeles. Rosendo has raped Iluminada before. Valentina lays down the law and kicks Rosendo out of the hacienda. But eventually she hires him as her foreman. Most of the people of the region hate Valentina because of the things Rosendo does as her foreman, to their mind following her orders. They have given her the name "La Vibora", Spanish for viper or snake. Isabel, Ivana, and their servant Benita (Ana Martín), eventually move to the Cascabeles.

Valentina meets Jose Miguel Montesinos (Fernando Colunga), a rich land owner. She wishes to purchase his land, but he adamantly refuses. Jose Miguel's parents, Federico and Leonor Montesinos, (Eric del Castillo) and (Jacqueline Andere), move into their hacienda. Leonor wishes to return to Mexico City, but Federico Montesinos has only a short time left to live and wants to spend his remaining days on his hacienda. Jose Miguel becomes attracted to Valentina. Federico Montesinos was once in love with Isabel Dorantes and it turns out that he still is in love with her.

Rosendo sets fire to the home of Sabino (José Carlos Ruiz), a former employee of Jose Miguel whom his mother Leonor had fired. Rosendo kills Losario a worker in Valentina's Cascabeles in a stable belonging to Valentina. Valentina is blamed for killing Lozario.

Valentina begins to fall in love with Jose Miguel after accidentally shooting him. Soon Ivana begins to fall in love with him as well. Rosendo decides he wants Valentina, and he begins to challenge Jose Miguel for her. Jose Miguel and Valentina finally agree to marry each other, but Jose Miguel's mother does not approve of the marriage. Ivana and Rosendo also disapprove of the marriage and join forces to stop it. While Jose Miguel is gone to Mexico City to sell his house, a woman named Arcelia Olivares (Pilar Montenegro) tells Valentina that she and Jose Miguel had a relationship and that she has his son. Valentina breaks off marriage plans with Jose Miguel because of this. But in reality it was only a plot masterminded by Leonor and Ivana. In spite of everything, Valentina still loves Jose Miguel.

Soon Alonso comes back into the picture. He promises that he will not go back to Mexico City without her or her forgiveness. Jose Miguel, Rosendo, and Alonso begin to fight for Valentina's love. Alonso and Jose Miguel go for a short while to Mexico City. Chuy, (Diego Avila) the son of one of Jose Miguel's workers, is hurt in an accident, and Jose Miguel comes back to San Pedro to see him. In the hospital room, brought together by the accident of Chuy, Jose Miguel and Valentina decide to get back together. Ivana still wants Jose Miguel and plots to convince him that she is carrying his baby. To accomplish this, she goes to Mexico City and sleeps with an old friend who is a doctor (although he is married) in order to get pregnant and pass off the baby as Jose Miguel's. But she doesn't get pregnant.

Jose Miguel and Valentina decide to get married after Chuy recovers. Jose Miguel spends the night at Valentina's house, where they engage in passionate sex. Ivana is jealous. She tells Jose Miguel and Valentina that she is pregnant with Jose Miguel's child, and Valentina breaks up with Jose Miguel again. Ivana tries to sleep with Alonso, but Alonso kicks her out. She sleeps with Rosendo. Later she seduces the detective who is investigating Oscar's death in order to try to get pregnant once and for all. Unfortunately for him, he falls for Ivana. Still, she cannot get pregnant.

Ivana's guilty conscience over killing Oscar causes her to see his apparition many times, which degrades her mental health more and more as time goes by. She ends up killing Benita, beloved servant and "nana" of Valentina and Ivana, while having a hallucination and thinking that Benita is actually Oscar. Rosendo witnesses the murder.

Rosendo kidnaps Valentina. She is eventually rescued by Sabino and Jose Miguel's mother Leonor, who turns out to have been Rosendo's lover when they were young. Jose Miguel runs across the three as they head homeward. Then Rosendo shows up. While Rosendo and Jose Miguel are engaged in a death battle, Leonor tells Jose Miguel that Rosendo is his father. While Rosendo is inside the cave where he had kept Valentina hostage, someone blows up the cave, and everyone believes he is dead.

Ivana comes to realize that she is not going to be able to get away with murder after all, so she ends up hanging herself. The autopsy shows that she was not pregnant.

After that things change. Jose Miguel's mother apologizes to Valentina and to Jose Miguel and apparently intends to change her ways. Valentina and Jose Miguel get married. However, during the ceremony Rosendo shows up, extremely disfigured, and tries to kill them. Alonso jumps Rosendo, enabling Jose Miguel and then the police to disarm him. The police take him away. Valentina and Jose Miguel live happily ever after. They are shown with their twins at the end of the story.

Cast

Main cast in order of Appearance

Actor	Character	Known as
Lucero	Valentina Villalba	Main heroine, in love with Jose Miguel, Ivana's cousin
Fernando Colunga	Jose Miguel Montesinos	Main hero, in love with Valentina, biological son of Rosendo and Leonor
David Zepeda	Alonso Peñalvert	Villain, later good, first fiance of Valentina, but they don't get married, lover of Ivana
Gabriela Spanic	Ivana Dorantes †	Main female villain, cousin of Valentina, daughter of Isabel, in love with Jose Miguel, lover of Oscar, Alonso, Felipe, Horacio, Rosendo and Toledo (Commits suicide)
Sergio Goyri	Rosendo Gavilán	Main male villain, real father of Jose Miguel, lover of Leonor (Goes to jail)
Jacqueline Andere	Leonor Montesinos	Villain, later good, mother of Jose Miguel, hates Valentina, wife of Federico
Ana Martín	Benita Garrido †	nanny of Ivana and Valentina, also servant (Killed by Ivana)
Eduardo Capetillo	Horacio Acosta	Best friend of Jose Miguel, in love with Gabriela
Julio Alemán	Ernesto Galeana	Valentina's lawyer, in love with Isabel
Carlos Bracho and Arsenio Campos	Padre Justino Samaniego	Priest
Paul Stanley	Timoteo	In love with Iluminada
Marisol del Olmo	Gabriela Islas	Best friend of Valentina, in love with Horacio
Fabian Robles	Felipe Santibáñez	Doctor of San Pedro, in love with Gabriela, at first and then with Sandra
Claudio Baez	Oscar Ampudia †	Lover of Ivana, husband of Narda (Killed by Ivana)
Emoé de la Parra	Narda de Ampudia	Wife of Oscar
Gerardo Albarrán	Nerón Almoguera
Anabel Ferreira	Amparo	Nurse
Diana Osorio	Margarita Corona	ex-secretary of Alonso
Marisol Santacruz	Cecilia Rangel de Villalba †	Mother of Valentina
Guillermo Capetillo	Rogelio Villalba †	Father of Valentina
Alejandra Procuna	Brenda Castaño Lagunes †	Mother of Santiaguito (Dies of operation)
Silvia Pinal	Isabel Rangel vda. Dorantes	Mother of Ivana, aunt of Valentina, in love with Federico at first but then with Ernesto
Eric del Castillo	Federico Montesinos †	Father of Jose Miguel, husband of Leonor, in love with Isabel (Killed by Rosendo)
José Carlos Ruiz	Sabino Mercado	worker on the hacienda,
Ana Bertha Espin	Enriqueta Macotela	Mother of Sandra, wife of Moises, not a good person
David Ostrosky	Moises Macotela	Father of Sandra, husband of Enriqueta
Rossana San Juan	Crisanta Camargo	Lover of Rosendo, mother of Iluminada
Fátima Torre	Iluminada Camargo	Servant on the Valentina's hacienda, daughter of Crisanta, raped by Rosendo
Cristina Obregon	Sandra Macotela	Daughter of Enriqueta and Moises, in love with Felipe
Mário del Río	Filadelfo Porras	Worker on the Valentina's hacienda
Eduardo Rivera	Juan Granados	Worker on the Jose Miguel's hacienda
Diego Ávila	Chuy Granados	Son of Juan and Teresa
Raúl Padilla	Padre Ventura Menchaca	Priest
Claudia Ortega	Teresa de Granados	Servant on the Jose Miguel's hacienda
Evelyn Ximena	Teresita Granados	Daughter of Juan and Teresa
Alejandro Ruiz	Nazario Melgarejo †	Worker on the Valentina's hacienda (Killed by Rosendo)
Tony Vela	Comandante Bruno Toledo	Police officer, lover of Ivana

Other versions

• Televisa held in Mexico in 1978 a version of this soap opera called "Doménica Montero" directed by Lawrence Rhodes, produced by Valentín Pimstein and starring Irán Eory, Rogelio Guerra and Raquel Olmedo.

• Amanda Sabater, telenovela made by RCTV in 1989, directed by and starring Gabriel Walfenzao, Maricarmen Regueiro and Iván Moros.

• RCTV conducted in 1995 a very free version of this soap opera entitled "El desafío", produced by Carlos Lamus and Hernando Faria, directed by and starring Renato Gutiérrez, Caluda Venturini, Henri Soto and Mimi Lazo.

• In 1995, Televisa telenovela version of this again and call "La dueña", this time starring Angélica Rivera, Francisco Gattorno and Cynthia Klitbo, under the overall production of Florinda Meza. Before "Soy Tu Dueña", this was the most successful version.

• Brazilian chain SBT held in Brazil in 2001 a version of this soap opera called Amor e Ódio, directed by Jacques Lagôa, Henrique Martins and Antonino Seabra, produced by David Grimberg and Gilberto Nunes and starring Suzy Rêgo, Daniel Boaventura and Viétia Rocha.

Broadcasting

Country	TV network(s)	Series premiere	Series end
Mexico		April 19, 2010	November 7, 2010
United States		June 1, 2010	January 1, 2011
Montenegro		July 20, 2010
Albania		July 28, 2010	December 30, 2010
Puerto Rico		September, 2010	April 8, 2011
Cyprus	ANT1 TV	July 20, 2011
Poland	Zone Romantica	September, 2010	March, 2011
Israel	Viva	January, 2011	August, 2011
Slovenia		September, 2010	April, 2011
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Pink BH	October, 2010	March, 2011
Hungary	Zone Romantica	September, 2010	March 25, 2011
Macedonia	Pink 15	November 22, 2010	June, 2011
Georgia		December 17, 2010
Croatia	HRT 1	March 7, 2011	September 20, 2011
Estonia		December 27, 2010	July 18, 2011
Spain	La 1	February 21, 2011	July 15, 2011
Turkey	Star TV (Turkey)	March, 2011
Argentina	Canal 9	September 6, 2010	March 28, 2011
Latvia	LNT	August, 2011
Romania	Acasa	September 12, 2011
Russia	Zone Romantica
Kenya	Citizen TV

External links

• Seriesnow

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Golondrinas Viajeras de Joan Sebastian y Lucero (Spanish)". tvyespectaculos.com. http://www.tvyespectaculos.com/tag/soy-tu-duena/. Retrieved 2010-04-27.