''Colorina'' (English title: ''Redhead'') is a Mexican

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produced by

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for

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 ...

in 1980. It was a remake of '' La Colorina'', while remakes of ''Colorina'' are ''Apasionada'' and '' Salomé''.

Lucía Méndez Lucía Leticia Méndez Pérez (born January 26, 1955) is a Mexican telenovela and film actress, top model and singer. Méndez was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico. Career Her first work in television was in the telenovela “Muchacha itali ...

and

Enrique Álvarez Félix Enrique Álvarez Félix (5 April 1935 – 24 May 1996) was a Mexican actor, known for his roles in telenovelas and in films, such as '' The Monastery of the Vultures'' and '' The House of the Pelican''. Family and personal life Enrique Álvarez ...

starred as protagonists, while José Alonso and María Teresa Rivas starred as antagonists. María Rubio, Julissa and

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co-starred in secondary performances. This telenovela is well remembered for its daring move to feature a cabaret dancer/prostitute as the protagonist, a decision that would lead to Televisa being forced by then-president,

José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 ...

under the wishes of his mother to classify it a C rating, moving it to the 11:00 pm time slot & changing the channel in which it was shown in seeing it as "improper" to feature a prostitute as the main character on prime time television. The huge ratings success of the telenovela however, and the fact that Lucia Mendez's character doesn't remain a prostitute for long allowed for Colorina to return to Canal 2 and its original timeslot
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Plot

Gustavo Adolfo Almazán is a Psychological repression, repressed millionaire married to an invalid named Alba. His life is dictated by his Tyrant, tyrannical mother Ana María. One night, Iván, a rascal brother-in-law of Gustavo, brings two drunken

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singers, Fernanda and Rita, to the Almazán

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and they start a raucous party. This is how Gustavo meets Fernanda, alias Colorina (on account of her

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) with whom he’ll share a passionate love affair. Ana María wants a grandchild and pays Fernanda to have a child with her son, on condition that she gives it to Alba to raise as her own. Although Fernanda initially agrees with the plan, she changes her mind after her son is born. Fernanda flees to

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where she starts a new life. Twenty years later, Fernanda is a respectable

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, the prosperous owner of a

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. She decides to return to Mexico and introduce her biological son and two adopted sons to the Almazán family to see if they can guess which one is Gustavo Adolfo’s son.

Cast

Main

as Fernanda Redes Paredes "Colorina" *

as Gustavo Adolfo Almazán y de la Vega * Julissa as Rita * José Alonso as Iván

Recurring

*María Teresa Rivas as Ana María de la Vega de Almazán *

as Guillermo Almazán *

María Sorté María Sorté (born María Harfuch Hidalgo

as Mirta *

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as Doménico *

Liliana Abud Liliana Abud (born July 5, 1948) is a Mexican actress and writer. She is known for her work in telenovelas and cinema of Mexico, Mexican cinema. The majority of her work in both acting and writing has been with the Mexican television company Tele ...

as Alba de Almazán *

María Rubio María Rubio (September 21, 1934 – March 1, 2018) was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, ''Cuna de lobos ''Cuna de lobos'' ( English: ''C ...

as Ami *Fernando Larrañaga as Dr. Ulloa * Luis Bayardo as Polidoro "Poli" * Héctor Ortega as Toribio *

as Alba de Almazán * Elizabeth Dupeyrón as Marcia Valdés de Paredes * Guillermo Capetillo as José Miguel Redes *Juan Antonio Edwards as Armando Redes *

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as Danilo Redes *Roxana Saucedo as Mónica Pedres Valdés *

Salvador Pineda Salvador Pineda Popoca (born June 16, 1952, in Huetamo, Michoacan, Mexico) is a Mexican actor, who has participated in over 20 Mexican telenovelas and Mexican movies, as well as two Hollywood low budget movies. Born to Mexican politician Salvado ...

as Enrique *Alberto Inzúa as Matías *Alba Nydia Díaz as Laiza Vicuña *Arturo Lorca as Liborio *

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as La Pingüica * Elsa Cárdenas as Adela' * Yuri as Italia "Ita" Ferrari *

Christian Bach Adela Christian Bach Bottino (May 9, 1959 – February 26, 2019), known as Christian Bach, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress and producer of telenovelas produced by companies such as Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo. Her most famous wor ...

as Peggy *Eugenio Cobo as Lic. Germán Burgos *

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as Julián Saldívar * Patricia Ancira as Lupe *Marina Dorell as Cristina *

Juan Luis Galiardo Juan Luis Galiardo Comes (2 March 1940 – 22 June 2012) was a Spanish television, theater and film actor. Life The eldest of six children, Juan Luis Galiardo Comes was born in San Roque, Cádiz, but spent most of his childhood and youth in ...

as Aníbal Gallardo y Rincón *

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as Iris *Enrique Beraza as Emilio *Debbie D'Green as Bailarina *Alfredo García Márquez as Domingo *Federico Falcónas Norberto Pedres * Enrique Hidalgo as Dr. Marín *Enrique Gilabert as Detective *Óscar Bonfiglio as Enrique's friend *Marichu de Labra as Teresa *Martha Resnikoff as Dressmaker *Carlos Pouliot as Iván's friend *Myrrah Saavedra as Maid of Almazán's family

Lyrics of the song

''Colorina''
''con tu canto de golondrina''
''y ese sueño en la piel''
''has llenado de ti mi vida''. ''Colorina'',
''corazón de ternura escondida'',
''bajo tu mando de amor''
''llevas mi alma prendida''. ''Colorina''... ''Nuestro amor no tendrá final''
''porque ha echado su raíz''
''mas allá del bien y el mal'',
''porque es puro como el agua de manantial''.Lyrics of Colorina
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References

External links

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Opening of ''Colorina''Enrique Álvarez Félix as Gustavo''Colorina''
performed by

Full song ''Colorina''
by

Camilo Sesto Camilo Blanes Cortés (16 September 1946 – 8 September 2019), known professionally as Camilo Sesto, was a Spanish singer, songwriter and music producer. There are various sales figures for him, ranging from 70 to 200 million records sold, and ...

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