Cara Sucia (telenovela)

Cara Sucia
Created by	Venevision
Starring	Sonya Smith; Guillermo Dávila
Opening theme	"Antologia de Caricias" by Altamira Banda Show
Ending theme	"Antologia de Caricias" by Altamira Banda Show
Country of origin	Venezuela
Original language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	167
Production
Camera setup	Multicamera
Running time	42 minutes
Release
Original network	Venevisión
Picture format	SDTV, 480i
Audio format	Stereophonic sound
Original release	1992
Chronology
Related shows	La gata (1968); La fiera (1983); Rosa Salvaje (1987); María la del Barrio (1995); Por un beso (2000); Gata Salvaje (2002); Pobre Diabla (2010); La Gata (2014)
External links
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Cara Sucia (Spanish: "dirty face") is a Venezuelan telenovela.

Produced by Venevisión and filmed in 1992, Cara Sucia presents the story of Miguel Angel Gonzalez (played by Guillermo Dávila) and Estrellita Montenegro (played by Sonya Smith, a Venezuelan-American actress, in the role that brought her to prominence).^[1]

The show was also dubbed into English, Russian, Mongolian, and Filipino (Tagalog) in the Philippines.

Plot summary

Miguel Angel is a member of one of Caracas' richest families, while Estrellita is a poor but hard-working beautiful girl who sells newspapers in a corner every day to earn a living. When they met, it was love at first sight, and, as the story develops, they begin a beautiful romance that makes them begin to date and later get married.

However, not everything is pink for the young couple, and they have to survive many other things, such as:

opposition by Miguel Angel 's parents, Horacio (Humberto Garcia) and Rebecca (Chony Fuentes)
Horacio's declining mental health that makes him become more and more dangerous
the obsessive passion that evil Santa Ortigosa (Miguel Angel 's ex, played by Gigi Zancheta) feels for Miguel Angel
a partnership that Horacio creates with two drug dealers who end up murdered by him when he finds out they are using him
the revelation that Estrellita's mother was killed by a younger Horacio because she left him for the man who would become Estrellita's father
the kidnapping by Horacio of Miguel Angel and Estrellita's boy twins once Miguel Angel and Estrellita had married and begun a family.

Miguel Angel's mom, Rebecca, however, begins to relent on her opposition towards Miguel Angel and Estrellitas love once she realizes she was wrong about Estrellita (Rebecca thought at first that Estrellita was a gold digger), but it was her friend and Miguel Angel's ex, Santa who was the actual gold digger and that her husband wasn't the man he pretended to be.

Horacio who during the time had kidnapped the two twin baby boys grew to love them like his own sons, shoots himself after a police stand-off where the babies are wrestled away from him, while Santa dies when her car is driven off a cliff. Miguel Angel and Estrellita recover their babies and finally achieve the love and happiness they had hoped for, and Rebecca accepts her daughter-in-law and twin grandsons as new members of her family.

Cast

Sonya Smith - Estrella Montenegro Campuzano
Guillermo Dávila - Miguel Ángel González
Gigi Zanchetta - Santa Ortigosa
Humberto García - Horacio González
Adolfo Cubas - Antonio González
Eva Blanco - Candelaria Camacho
Chony Fuentes - Rebeca
Elio Rubens - Leonardo Montenegro (Estrella's father)
Niurka Acevedo
María A. Avalone
Julio Capote - Fermín
Solmayra Castillo - Deyanira
Hans Christopher - Víctor Iriarte
Helianta Cruz - Beba Ortigoza
Rita De Gois - Carmen dos Santos
Joel de la Rosa - Fabian
Alexis Escamez
Eduardo Luna - Kirikó (Ángel Vargas López)
Alberto Marín - Padre Lombarito
Ana Martínez - Asunción
Ana Massimo
Hilda Moreno - Coralia
Enrique Oliveros - Oscar
Simón Pestana - José Grigorio
Marcelo Rodríguez - Agustín
Chumico Romero
Marcelo Romo - Carmelo
José Ángel Urdaneta - Chuy
Winston Vallenilla - Freddy
Gil Vargas
Hilda Blanco - Moncha
Mauricio González - Fernando Guzmán
Juan Carlos Baena - Fotógrafo
Manolo Manolo - Doctor
Humberto Buonocuore - Pepino
Lizbeth Manrique - Loly
Manolo Manolo - Doctor
Swenn Luna - Policial
Karina, hija de Rebeca
Tamara San Diego (Emilia Landaeta en "Como tú, ninguna)
Ileana, vecina de Candelaria
Tomasa, abuela de Ileana (Remigia en "Como tú, ninguna")
Federica, prima de Santa (Isabel en "Como tú, ninguna")
Rocky, killer (Reynaldo en "Simplemente María)
Gato (Miguel en "Como tú, ninguna")
Juan, padre de Moncha (Guanabocoá en "María Celeste")

Theme Song

The song was Antologia de Caricias by Altamira Banda Show

Broadcasters

Philippines	Cara Sucia	GMA Network	February 5, 2001	August 3, 2001	Monday to Friday	2:30 pm
Spain	Cara Sucia	Antena 3	March 15, 1993	October 15, 1993	Monday to Friday	8:00 pm
USA	Cara Sucia	Univision UniMas \| April 13, 1992	November 6, 1992	Monday to Friday	9:00 pm
Mongolia	Cara Sucia	MNB	1994	?	Monday to Friday
Venezuela	Cara Sucia	Venevisión	March 5, 1992	October 12, 1992	Monday to Friday	10:00 pm
Argentina	Cara Sucia	El Trece Magazine TV	May 7, 1994 April 5, 1999	November 11, 1994 November 12, 1999	Monday to Friday	5:00 pm 8:30 pm
Paraguay	Cara Sucia	Telefuturo Unicanal]	April 4, 1994 June 14, 1999	December 9, 1994 February 4, 2000	Monday to Friday	6:00 pm 8:30 pm
Indonesia	Cara Sucia	SCTV	March 21, 1994 September 1, 1994	August 29, 1994 September 5, 1995	Monday Monday to Friday	11:00 am 4:00 pm