Mimí Bechelani
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Mimí Bechelani is a Mexican screenwriter. She has spent her entire career writing for Televisa. Bechelani has also been a radio announcer, as well as a writer of poetry, novels, dramas, films, and theater scripts.
Biography
Although her father died when she was young, Bechelani received a good education, studying painting, English, French, history and theater. She accompanied Amparo Villegas to New York to dub English films in Spanish. There, she also worked as a theater actress. In 1952, she worked at Radio Femenina. Bechelani worked as a school teacher. She married a doctor, but they had no children.
Bechelani has written extensively, creating more than 200 works for radio and television.[1] She is best known for being the author of the 1959 telenovela, Teresa. It was made into a film in 1961 (starring Maricruz Olivier) and was remade into four telenovelas, three with that title.[2]
Selected television works
Original stories
- (1958) Más allá de la angustia
- (1959) Teresa
- (1960) Claudia
- (1962) El profesor Valdez
- (1963) Madres egoístas
- (1964) Historia de un cobarde
- (1965) Las abuelas
- (1967) Amor sublime
- (1967) El cuarto mandamiento
- (1967) Las víctimas
- (1968) Pueblo sin esperanza
- (1969) El ciego
- (1969) Lo que no fue
- (1970) Aventura
- (1974) El chofer
- (1979) Añoranza
- (1989) Teresa
- (1992) Madres Egoístas
- (2010) Teresa
Adaptations
- Mi rival (1973) (original by Inés Rodena)
- Los que ayudan a Dios (1973) (original by Nené Cascallar)
- Mi primer amor (1973) (original by Walter Negrão)
Remakes written herself
- El honorable Señor Valdez (1973) (remake of El profesor Valdez)
- El cuarto mandamiento (1967) (remake of Teresa)
Remakes written by others
- Teresa (2010) (remake of Teresa) by Ximena Suárez
- Madres egoístas (1991) (remake of Madres egoístas) by Josefina Palos y Romo
- Teresa (1989) (remake of Teresa) by Silvia Castillejos and Francisco Sánchez
- Teresa (1969) (Brazilian remake of Teresa) by Raimundo Lopez.
Poetry
- (1970) Fuego al sol; poemas eróticos
References
- ^ Roberto, Luis (6 January 2003). "Biografía de Mimí Bechelani" (in Spanish). Network 54. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
- ^ Plasse, Marcel (9 October 2012). "Séries acham nova inspiração: as novelas" (in Portuguese). Universo Online. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
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