Apuesta por un Amor (English: Gambling on Love)[1] is a Mexican telenovela produced by Angelli Nesma Medina for Televisa in 2004.
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| Created by | Bernardo Romero Pereiro |
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| Directed by | Alfredo Gurrola |
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| Theme music composer | Consuelo Velázquez |
| Opening theme | "Que seas felíz" by Luis Miguel |
| Ending theme | "Que seas felíz" by Luis Miguel |
| Country of origin | Mexico |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 130 |
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| Executive producer | Angelli Nesma Medina |
| Producer | Ignacio Alarcón |
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| Running time | 41-44 minutes |
| Production company | Televisa |
| Original release | |
| Network | Canal de las Estrellas |
| Release | October 25, 2004 – April 22, 2005 |
The telenovela stars Patricia Manterola, Juan Soler, Eric del Castillo, Roberto Palazuelos, Mónika Sánchez, Jorge Vargas, Dacia González and Roberto Ballesteros.
Univision tlnovelas broadcast Apuesta por un amor on March 31, 2014.[2]
Plot
editJulia Montaño (Patricia Manterola) is the daughter of Don Julio Montaño (Jorge Vargas), a wealthy landowner in the Yucatán Peninsula. She is a beautiful, strong-willed and sometimes arrogant woman, who flouts her father's will and the customs of their small town by spending her days herding cattle and overseeing the management of her father's ranch. She has two siblings - Álvaro (Fabián Robles), a dissipated young man who spends the majority of his time chasing girls and getting drunk, and Soledad (Lorena Enríquez), a beautiful and ingenuous young girl who falls in love with Gabriel Durán (Juan Soler), the handsome gamester and ex-lover of their greedy step-mother Cassandra (Alejandra Ávalos), who moves to San Gaspar after winning the hacienda of Don Ignacio Andrade (Arsenio Campos), Julio's closest friend, in a poker game. Don Ignacio's son, Francisco (Roberto Palazuelos), has been in love with Julia, but after discovering that he has become involved with the town harlot, Eva (Mónika Sánchez), Julia spurns him for Gabriel.
Julia doesn't let herself be domesticated by anyone, but despite all the disagreements, she has to admit she is deeply in love with Gabriel. Nevertheless, after she catches him cheating on her with Eva, Julia declines his marriage proposal. Although she claims to utterly hate him, she eventually accepts to marry him, only to save her family's fortune that Don Julio foolishly lost in a bet with Gabriel. At first their marriage is full of fights and hateful words as Julia is determined to make Gabriel pay for his faults, but her heart softens after giving birth to their son. Things seem to look up for them; and they start living as a normal couple, but the real troubles are yet to come.
Cast
editMain
edit- Patricia Manterola as Julia Montaño
- Juan Soler as Gabriel Durán
- Eric del Castillo as Chepe Estrada
- Roberto Palazuelos as Francisco Andrade
- Mónika Sánchez as Eva Flores
- Jorge Vargas as Julio Montaño
- Dacia González as Clara Garcia
- Roberto Ballesteros as Justo Hernández
- Marco Muñoz as Dr. Sebastian Ibarrola
- Alejandra Ávalos as Cassandra Fragoso de Montaño
Also main
edit- Socorro Bonilla as Lázara Jiménez
- Tony Bravo as Camilo Beltrán
- Gustavo Rojo as Lic. Leonardo de la Rosa
- Arsenio Campos as Ignacio Andrade
- Maleni Morales as Esther Andrade
- Alfonso Iturralde as Prof. Homero Preciado
- Roberto D'Amico as Padre Jesús
- Jaime Lozano as Braulio Serrano
- Justo Martínez as Macario Trujillo
- Héctor Sáez as Cayetano Cruz
- Fernando Robles as Marcial
- Alejandro Rábago as Lorenzo Pedraza
- Rafael del Villar as Domingo Ferrer
- Fabián Robles as Alvaro Montaño
- José María Torre as Luis Pedraza
- Francesca Guillén as Matilde Cruz
- Julio Mannino as Leandro Pedraza
- Lorena Enríquez as Soledad Montaño
- Jan as Dr. Felipe Calzada
- Juan Ángel Esparza as Samuel Cruz
- Benjamín Rivero as Ramón Cabrera
- Elsa Navarrete as Lucero Beltrán
- Carmen Becerra as Nadia Thomas Fragoso
- Manuela Ímaz as Gracia Ferrer
Awards and nominations
edit| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee | Result |
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| 2005 | 23rd TVyNovelas Awards[3] | Best Telenovela | Angelli Nesma Medina | Nominated |
| Best Actress | Patricia Manterola | Nominated | ||
| Best Actor | Juan Soler | Nominated | ||
| Best Antagonist Actress | Mónika Sánchez | Nominated | ||
| Best Antagonist Actor | Fabian Robles | Won | ||
| Best Supporting Actress | Dacia González | Nominated | ||
| Best Supporting Actor | Eric del Castillo | Won | ||
| Best Musical Theme | "Que seas feliz" by Luis Miguel |
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| Best Direction | Alfredo Gurrola Benjamín Cann |
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References
edit- ^ "Gambling on Love". televisainternacional. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ "Patricia Manterola y Juan Soler tienen una Apuesta Por Un Amor en Univision tlnovelas". univision.com. Retrieved March 24, 2014.
- ^ "Rubí arrasa en los Premios TV y Novelas". elsiglodetorreon.com. April 25, 2005. Retrieved April 25, 2005.