Rosalinda (Mexican TV series)

This article is about Mexican television series. For the Philippine television series, see Rosalinda (Philippine TV series).

For other uses, see Rosalinda (Mexican TV series) (disambiguation).

Rosalinda
Directed by	Beatriz Sheridan Karina Duprez
Music by	José Antonio "Potro" Farías
Country of origin	Mexico
Original language	Spanish
Production
Producers	Salvador Mejía Nathalie Lartilleux
Original release
Network	Televisa

Rosalinda is a Mexican telenovela, which was produced by and broadcast on Televisa in 1999.

Plot

Synopsis

Rosalinda is a sweet woman living with her poor Mexican family. When her mother, who is not really her mother, dies, she meets Fernando Jose, whose father was killed by her real mother and is currently serving prison time for. Because of a complicated illness, she loses her memory and falls in love with another man, Alex. Upon hearing Fernando play the piano, Rosalinda regains her memory but now must choose which man she will marry.

Main story line

Rosalinda is a pretty 20-year-old girl who sells flowers and decorates a fancy restaurant. One day, she meets Fernando Jose, a man of high social status. He plays the piano at the restaurant. They eventually fall in love, get married, and have a child named Anna, but his stepmother Valeria desires to split the happy couple up. And she has the perfect way of doing so. Rosalinda's real mother, Soledad, served a 20-year prison sentence for the murder of Fernando Jose's real father. She was innocent, but took the blame. After finding out this horrible news, Fernando Jose abandons Rosalinda and her daughter. Valeria kidnaps Anna. Rosalinda goes into a depression and eventually loses her mind. She is locked up in a mental hospital.

Flight into the night

One night, the mental hospital catches fire and burns down. Rosalinda fortunately manages to escape. However, her loved ones are convinced she is dead. She meets an old man who forces and shows her how to steal. Suffering from a major case of amnesia, she is forced to become a thief. She meets Alex Dorantes while trying to steal from his house. Alex cleans her up and she takes on the identity of Paloma Dorantes and becomes a singer. She falls in love with Alex, the talent agent who makes her famous. Fernando Jose marries Rosalinda's cousin, Fedra.

Rejuvenated

Rosalinda's life with Alex seems to be going well. However, things just didn't seem to be totally right. One night, Rosalinda and Alex attend one of Fernando Jose's concerts. He played a song which happened to be the first one he played the day they met. This seemed to trigger Rosalinda's memory of her past. Overwhelmed by these memories, Rosalinda scurries out of the concert hall and gets hit by a car. Alex rushes her to the hospital. It is then that Rosalinda realizes that she is not Paloma, but Rosalinda.

Choices, choices

Now that Rosalinda has gained her memory back, she must go back and fight to gain her child back, her family, and maybe even Fernando Jose in the process. Along the way, she encounters many life-changing events. She encounters many obstacles with Valeria and her cronies, and even discovers who Fernando Jose's real mother is Veronica Valeria's sister who was separated from her family because Valeria was in love of José Fernando the father of Fernando José. Then Valeria and José Fernando told that Veronica was dead.

Here comes the bride

Valeria gets incarcerated and ends up miserable and desperate in jail. The novela ends with Fernando Jose and Rosalinda leaving the church where Rosalinda had planned to marry Agustin. They live happilly ever after.

Facts

• Rosalinda was Thalía's last telenovela before moving to New York City with her husband Tommy Mottola.
• This telenovela was heralded as a must see event due to the stars involved, Lupita Ferrer (who played Rosalinda in the original version produced in Venezuela, "Maria Teresa"), Angelica Maria and Fernando Carrillo.
• The telenovela has been released on a two double-sided DVDs as an edited version of the telenovela.
• Rosalinda just finished airing on Telefutura at 4:00 p.m. on weekdays.
• A Tagalog dub version of Rosalinda was released in the Philippines which aired in ABS CBN in 2000. After airing its first episode, its ratings began to rise and Rosalinda became the most popular telenova in the Philippines. Re-runs of Rosalinda are airing on GMA 7.
• Due to its continuous popularity in the Philippines, GMA 7 bought the rights to do a Philippine adaptation of this telenovela set on 2009. The Philippine version will be starred by Carla Abellana dubbed as the next Philippines' Primetime Princess. Geoff Eigenmann will play Fernando Jose Altamirano. see Rosalinda (Philippine TV series)

Main cast

• Thalía as Rosalinda Pérez Romero later Rosalinda del Castillo de Altamirano aka Paloma Dorantes
• Fernando Carrillo as Fernando José Altamirano del Castillo
• Lupita Ferrer as Valeria del Castillo de Altamirano
• Nora Salinas as Fedra Pérez Romero de Altamirano
• Victor Noriega as Alex Dorantes
• Angélica María as Soledad Romero
• Adriana Fonseca as Lucy Pérez Romero
• Manuel Saval as Alfredo del Castillo
• Laura Zapata as Veronica del Castillo
• Miguel Rodríguez as Javier Pérez
• René Muñoz as Grandpa Florentino
• Jorge De Silva as Beto Pérez Romero
• Jessica Salazar as Pamela Iturbide

Supporting cast

• Lee Tockar
• Paty Díaz as Clarita
• Ninón Sevilla
• Raúl Padilla as Bonifacio
• Renata as Zoila Barriga
• Elvira Monsell as Bertha Álvarez
• Anastasia Acosta
• Eduardo Luna as Aníbal Eduardo Rivera Pacheco
• Roberto Guzmán
• Meche Barba as Angustias
• María Teresa
• Sergio Reynoso
• Ana María Aguirre as Enriqueta de Navarrete
• Rafael Amador
• Alejandro Ávila
• Eugenio Bartilotti
• Guadalupe Bolaños
• Eva Calvo
• Guillermo García Cantú as José Fernando Altamirano
• César Castro
• Aida Cuevas
• Susana González as Luz Elena
• Alberto Inzúa
• Queta Lavat
• Eduardo Liñán as Demetrio Morales
• Emiliano Lizárraga
• Tere López-Tarín as Natalia
• Sara Luz
• Julio Monterde
• Ivonne Montero
• Sara Montes
• Sabine Moussier
• Juan José Origel
• Héctor del Puerto
• Libia Regalado
• Esther Rinaldi as Abril Valdez-Quiñones Del Castillo
• Tina Romero
• Javier Ruán
• Jorge Pascual Rubio
• Milagros Rueda
• Jessica Salazar
• Carlos Samperio
• Juan Carlos Serrán
• Yamil Sesin
• Irma Torres
• Julio Urreta
• Gabriela del Valle
• Maricarmen Vela
• Liza Willert
• Luz María Zetina as Luz María
• Ursula Murayama

Trivia

• Since Thalia is an internationally known singer in real life with numerous album releases, most of her own songs were used in the show for the chapter where she becomes the singer Paloma.

• Fernando Carillo composed the piano piece he plays in the story. Although the piece is sought after by piano playing fans of the actors, the piece is not commercially available because Fernando never finished composing the music. The portion heard on the show stops where Fernando stopped writing the music.

• Marked the return of Thalia to telenovelas after the highly successful international run of the Tres Marias trilogy.

• Released in 2 DVD versions. The first being a double sided disc set and the most recent, on a double sided 3 disc set with English subtitles.

• Thalia's last telenovela before marrying music mogul Tommy Mottola in 2000.

Remakes

Philippine TV series

Main article: Rosalinda (Philippine TV series)

Rosalinda (Philippine TV series) is a Philippine remake of Mexican telenovela, Rosalinda. It stars Carla Abellana on the lead role.

Main Cast

• Carla Abellana as Rosalinda
• Geoff Eigenmann as Fernando Jose Altamirano
• Katrina Halili as Fedra Perez
• Ariel Rivera as Alfredo del Castillo
• Marco Alcaraz as Anibal
• Sheryl Cruz as Valeria Altamirano

External links

• Rosalinda at the Telenovela database
• Rosalinda at IMDb
• The Philippine Remake of Rosalinda at the Wikipedia
• "Video Teaser of Rosalinda - The Philippine Remake at YouTube
• "MTV Rosalinda Remake at YouTube