La Viuda de Blanco

telenovela
title = La Viuda de Blanco


country = Colombia
year = 1999
2006 (remake)
network = Telemundo
cast = Osvaldo Ríos (1996)
María Helena Doehring (1996)
Francisco Gattorno (2006)
Itatí Cantoral (2006)
language = Spanish
director = Aurelio Valcárcel Carrol (1996)
Luis Manzo (2006)
Leonardo Galavis (2006)
David Posada (2006)
created by = Raquel Pasmiño
written by = Julio Jiménez
producer = Martha Godoy
Óscar Guarín
cinematographer = Pedro Franco
Carlos Sierra
music = Miguel De Narvaez
theme_song = "Alicia"
performer = Osvaldo Rios
Yolandita Monge
episodes = 148 episodes

La Viuda de Blanco (The Widow of Blanco) is a 1996 Colombian telenovela hit which starred Osvaldo Rios, María Helena Doehring, Jorge Enrique Abello, and Yolandita Monge. Its remake, titled the same, premiered on July 24, 2006 on Telemundo. Both versions (the remake including mostly Mexican actors) were produced by RTI Colombia.

Plot

A mysterious woman arrives in the town of Trinidad looking for her past. After years of imprisonment for a crime she did not commit, the beautiful widow Alicia Guardiola returns to claim her twin boys, who are being raised by their grandmother, the feared and respected Perfecta Albarracin. Perfecta has no intention of giving up her grandchildren without a fight, and enlists her son, the handsome Diego Blanco, to help her. On opposite sides of a battle to claim two precocious boys who share dreams and magical powers, Alicia and Diego find themselves falling in love, without even suspecting the dark consequences a relationship between them will bring. The following soapopera to follow is Dame Chocolate.

1996 Production Credits

*Director:
**Aurelio Valcárcel Carrol

*Writing credits:
**Julio Jiménez (story)
**Raquel Pasmiño (script)

*Producer(s)
**Omar Espina (field producer)
**Hugo León Ferrer (General Producer)
**Martha Godoy (producer)
**Óscar Guarín (producer)
*Original Music
*Miguel De Narvaez
*Cinematographers
**Pedro Franco
**Carlos Sierra
*Film Editior
**Alba Merchan Hamann
*Casting Director
**Humberto Rivera
*Art Director
**Lotti Haegger (credited as Lotti Haeger)
*Set Decoratiors
**Piedad Arango
**Javier Caro
*Costume Design by
**Jairo Teherán

Makeup Department

*Assistant Makeup Artist
**Socorro Ávila

*Makeup Designer
**Jorge Paredes

econd Unit Director or Assistant Director

*Assistant Directors

**Luis Orjuela
**Ricardo Suárez

*Alexandra Galindo (Second Assistant Director)

Art Department

*Set Decorating Coordinators:
**Carlos Aguilar
**Aurelio Alfaro

*Assistant Set Decorator:
**Patricia Hoyos

*Property Master
**Miguel Landines
**Ricardo Montañez

*Graphic Designer
**Orlando León

ound Department

*Music Editor
**Héctor Cardona Jr.

*Sound Assistant
**Jaime Oswaldo Díaz

*Sound
**Fernando González
**Eduardo Mogollón
**José Pirela (credited as José D. Pirela)

*Recording Supervisor
**Néstor Vanegas

Other crew

*Production Assistant
**Alejandro Calvo

*Lighting Technicians
**Pedro Acero
**Marco Amarillo
**William Aponte
**Gustavo Garay
**Pedro Fajardo
**Javier Garzón
**José Santana
**Jesús Sierra
**Alfredo Zamudio

*Engineers
**Álvaro Amaya
**Ernesto Buitrago
**Manuel Guzmán
**Orlando Peña

*Video Operators
**Hernán Barrios
**Julio Boria

*Sound Assistants
**Jorge Chiribi
**Rafael Cuesta

*Camera Operators
**César Contreras
**Hildebrando Cordero
**Jaime Méndez

*Coordinators
**Ricardo Díaz

*Assistant Camera
**Fabio Antonio Esquivel
**José Martínez
**Ricardo Ortega
**Jhon Pineda

*Costume Designs Assistants
**Maibeth Flores Chiquillo
**Francy Cardona

*Video Tape Editors
**Humberto Guevara
**Miguel Guevara
**José Manuel Jaimes
**José Ignacio Rico

*Traffic
**Dora Lozada
**Henry Palma
**José Luis Sanabria
**Nelson Sánchez
*Technical Director
**Humberto Perdomo

*Camera Operators
**Gustavo Poveda
**Gustavo Restrepo
**Hernando Tabares
**Daniel Vargas

*Wardrobe Coordinator
**Raúl Sánchez

*Electrician
**Carlos Segura

2006 Production Credits

*Directed by
**Luis Manzo
**Leonardo Galavis
**David Posada

*Writing credits
**Julio Jiménez

*Produced by
**Alicia Avila .... general producer
**Aurelio Valcárcel Carrol .... executive producer

Other crew

*Jimmy jib Operator
**Jesus Marcano

*Gaffer
**Carlos Osterling

*Set Medic
**Kelly Farrell

1996 Cast

*Osvaldo Ríos as Diego Blanco Albarracín

*María Helena Doehring as Alicia Guardiola vda. de Blanco (as Ma. Elena Doering)

*Yolandita Monge as Haydé Blanco Albarracín

*Jorge Enrique Abello as Dr. Dimas Pantoja

*Consuelo Luzardo as Doña Perfecta Albarracín vda. de Blanco

*Álvaro Bayona as Laurentino Urbina

*Ana María Hoyos as Iluminada Urbina (I)

*Leonor Gonzales Mina as Blasina (as Leonor González Mina)

*Júlio del Mar as Don Justino Brinión (as Julio del Mar)

*Mateo Rudas as Duban Blanco Guardiola

*Santiago Rudas as Felipe Blanco Guardiola

*Gerardo Calero as Hipólito Revoyo

*Daniel Ariza as Megateo

*Ana Mojica as Profesora Judith Cuestas

*Sandra Pérez as Valeria Sandoval

*Juan Sebastián Aragón as Fabio Júster Brinión (uncredited)

*Leonor Arango (uncredited)

*Roberto Cano as Ricardo (uncredited)

*Tania Fálquez as Iluminada Urbina (II) (uncredited)

*Julio Medina as (uncredited)

*Danilo Santos as Amador Blanco Albarracín (uncredited)

2006 Cast

*Francisco Gattorno as Sebastian Blanco

*Itatí Cantoral as Alicia Guardiola

*Alejandro Felipe as Duván Blanco / Felipe Blanco

*Flavio Caballero as Justino Brinión

*Eduardo Ibarrola as Laurentino Urbina

*Rodolfo Jiménez as Comandante Pablo Rios

*Michelle Jones as Teresa

*Jeannette Lehr as Profesora Judith Cuestas

*Zharick León as Illuminada Urbina

*Zully Montero as Doña Perfecta Albarracin

*Pedro Moreno as Querubín

*Lilibeth Morillo as Haydee Blanco (Episodes 1 - 138)

*Martha Pabón as Ofelia

*Michelle Vargas as Valeria

*Martín Karpan as Amador Blanco

[www.RodolfoJimenez.com] =External links=

* [http://www.telemundoeventos.com/laviuda/index.html Official English site]
* [http://tv.telemundo.yahoo.com/laviudadeblanco/index.html Official Spanish site]
* [http://www.tepuy.com/la_viuda_de_blanco_2006_eng.swf Telemundo International] "La Viuda de Blanco" page (English, requires Flash)