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Luz Y Sombra
''Luz y sombra'' (English title: ''Light and shadow'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by Gonzalo Martínez Ortega for Televisa in 1989. Thalía and Alberto Mayagoitía starred as protagonists, while Enrique Álvarez Félix starred as main antagonist. Plot Alma and José are two young people who try to succeed and achieve their goals in life, in spite of the odds and difficult circumstances they were born into, surrounded by poverty, economic disparity, homeless street children and substance abusers. Alma lives with her mother Mercedes, who led her daughter to believe that her father Eusebio died, but the truth is that he left them long ago and now lives with another woman. José, meanwhile, is a boy who dreams of being a great Olympic swimmer, just as Alma dreams of becoming a famous ballerina. Despite the hostilities they are forced to endure daily, Alma and Joseph don't stop trying to succeed and achieve their dreams, even if they have to go through misfortunes and suffe ...
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Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the world include ''Turkish television drama, dizi'' (Turkey), ''Indian television drama, serial'' (India), ''teleserye'' (Philippines), ''lakorn'' (Thailand), ''teleromanzo'' (Italy), ''téléroman'' (Canada, specifically Quebec), ''Korean drama, K-drama'' (South Korea), ''Japanese television drama, J-drama'' (Japan), ''Chinese television drama, C-drama'' (China) and ''sinetron'' (Indonesia). Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas t ...
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Televisa
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa announced that they would sell the company's media and entertainment assets to Univision Communications, which would form a new company to be known as TelevisaUnivision. The transaction was completed on 31 January 2022, with Televisa owning a 45% stake of the company. Company History Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017, each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death. Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (1955–1972) Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (fo ...
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Spanish-language Telenovelas
Spanish () or Castilian () is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a world language, global language with 483 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 558 million speakers total, including second-language speakers. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries, as well as one of the Official languages of the United Nations, six official languages of the United Nations. Spanish is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance language ...
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Televisa Telenovelas
Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April 2021, Televisa announced that they would sell the company's media and entertainment assets to Univision Communications, which would form a new company to be known as TelevisaUnivision. The transaction was completed on 31 January 2022, with Televisa owning a 45% stake of the company. Company History Since its beginning, the company has been owned by the Azcárraga family. The company has been led and owned by three generations of Azcárraga; each has marked an era for the company and, until October 2017, each had passed the ownership of the company to his son upon his death. Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (1955–1972) Grupo Televisa was founded in 1955 as Telesistema Mexicano, linking Mexico's first three television stations: XHTV-TV (found ...
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1989 Telenovelas
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final point. F. W. de Klerk was elected as State President of South Africa, and his regime gradually dismantled the aparthei ...
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Rosita Arenas
Rosa "Rosita" Arenas (born 19 August 1933) is a Mexican actress whose film career was most prominent during the 1950s and 1960s. She is one of the last divas of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela, the daughter of Spanish actor Miguel Arenas. At age 16, she was named ''Reina de la Primavera'' (Queen of the Spring), and subsequently made her film debut in ''Anacleto se divorcia'' (1950). She received more important roles in '' ¡¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?!'' (1951), with Pedro Infante and Luis Aguilar, and ''El señor fotógrafo'' (1953), with Cantinflas. She also tried her hand at singing; in ''Los chiflados del rock and roll'' (1957), she sang the songs "Se me hizo fácil", "Serenata huasteca", and "Qué manera de perder". Selected filmography * '' Anacleto Gets Divorced'' (1950) * ''The Shrew'' (1951) * '' The Minister's Daughter'' (1952) * ''Your Memory and Me'' (1953) * ''The Plebeian'' (1953) * ''The Photographer A photographer A ...
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Jaime Lozano
Jaime Arturo "Jimmy" Lozano Espín (born 29 September 1979) is a Mexican professional Association football, football Manager (association football), manager and former player. He is the current head coach of Liga MX club C.F. Pachuca, Pachuca. Lozano spent the majority of his playing career with Club Universidad Nacional, Universidad Nacional, where he made over 160 appearances. At international level, Lozano made 34 appearances and scored 12 goals over a seven-year period. He represented the national team in various competitions, including the 2004 Copa America, 2004 and 2007 Copa America tournaments, the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup and the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup. Club career Lozano made his professional debut with Club Universidad Nacional, Universidad Nacional in 1998. Following a brief period with Celaya F.C., Celaya, he returned to UNAM, where he secured back-to-back championships under the guidance of coach Hugo Sánchez. In the summer of 2005, he was transferred to Tig ...
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Socorro Bonilla
Socorro Bonilla (born María del Socorro Martínez Ortega on August 20, 1947) is a Mexican actress. Filmography Awards and nominations References External links * 1947 births Socorro Living people Socorro Mexican child actresses Mexican telenovela actresses Mexican television actresses Mexican film actresses Actresses from Chihuahua (state) 20th-century Mexican actresses 21st-century Mexican actresses People from Camargo, Chihuahua {{Mexico-actor-stub ...
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Blanca Sánchez
Blanca Sánchez (March 2, 1946 – January 7, 2010) was a Mexican character actress, the daughter of Luis Sánchez Silva and Ofelia de la Fuente. She appeared in several telenovelas such as ''Quinceañera'' and '' Luz y sombra''. Her film work included such films as ''Tiempo de morir'', ''Cuando los hijos se van'', ''Yo soy Chucho el Roto'', and ''Mamá Dolores''. Sánchez died in 2010, aged 63, in Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ..., from undisclosed causes. References External links * 1946 births 2010 deaths Mexican film actresses Mexican television actresses Mexican people of Spanish descent Actresses from Mexico City {{Mexico-actor-stub ...
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Carlos Bracho
Carlos Enrique Bracho González (born October 6, 1937) is a Mexican actor and writer. Filmography Films Television References External links * 1937 births Living people 20th-century Mexican male actors Mexican male telenovela actors Male actors from Aguascalientes Writers from Aguascalientes People from Aguascalientes City 21st-century Mexican male actors Mexican male writers Mexican male film actors {{Mexico-actor-stub ...
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Telenovela
A telenovela is a type of a television serial drama or soap opera produced primarily in Latin America. The word combines ''tele'' (for "television") and ''novela'' (meaning "novel"). Similar Drama (film and television), drama genres around the world include ''Turkish television drama, dizi'' (Turkey), ''Indian television drama, serial'' (India), ''teleserye'' (Philippines), ''lakorn'' (Thailand), ''teleromanzo'' (Italy), ''téléroman'' (Canada, specifically Quebec), ''Korean drama, K-drama'' (South Korea), ''Japanese television drama, J-drama'' (Japan), ''Chinese television drama, C-drama'' (China) and ''sinetron'' (Indonesia). Commonly described using the American colloquialism Spanish soap opera, many telenovelas share some stylistic and thematic similarities to the soap opera familiar to the English-speaking world. The significant difference is their series run length; telenovelas tell one self-contained story, typically within the span of a year or less whereas soap operas t ...
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Gonzalo Martínez Ortega
Gonzalo Martínez Ortega (27 April 1934 – 2 June 1998) was a Mexican actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He directed thirteen films and television series between 1973 and 1996. Filmography References External links * 1934 births 1998 deaths Ariel Award winners Best Director Ariel Award winners Gonzalo Gonzalo may refer to: * Gonzalo (name) * Gonzalo, Dominican Republic, a small town * Isla Gonzalo, a subantarctic island operated by the Chilean Navy * Hurricane Gonzalo, 2014 See also * Gonzalez (other) * Gonzales (disambiguatio ... Mexican male film actors Mexican film directors Mexican film producers People from Chihuahua (state) 20th-century Mexican male actors 20th-century Mexican screenwriters 20th-century Mexican male writers {{Mexico-film-director-stub ...
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