Caridad Bravo Adams

Caridad Bravo Adams (born on January 14, 1908 in Villahermosa, Tabasco – August 13, 1990 in Mexico City) is a prolific Mexican writer and the most famous telenovela writer worldwide.

She was born to a couple of Cuban actors and she was part of an extended family of artists, being the sister of Venezuelan actor Leon Bravo, one of the pioneers of theater, radio and TV in Venezuela. She published her first book at the age of 16 titled "Pétalos sueltos". She then moved back to Cuba with her parents and then back in Mexico where she kept writing and obtained a role in her only film "Corazón bandolero" (1934). She became a chair member of the Ateneo Mexicano de Mujeres and moved back to Cuba where she wrote the radionovela "Yo no creo en los hombres" which was adapted in Mexico for telenovelas in 1969 and 1988. Upon the rise of Fidel Castro as dictator she returned to Mexico where she would remain the rest of her life. Back in Mexico she wrote "Corazón salvaje", a novel that has been adapted to the screen twice and as a telenovela four times (including once as "Juan del Diablo" in Puerto Rico). She then wrote "La intrusa", "Bodas de odio" and other novels that earned her important awards.

The nature of her work

Caridad Bravo Adams can easily be identified as the Margaret Mitchell of telenovelas. Though she has her own style of writing Caridad’s most successful stories are the once she deals with the Margaret Mitchell-like topic of loveless marriage and the process of conquering one’s wife. In Corazon Salvaje, La mentira, Bodas de odio (and later Amor real), El otro (and later Por tu amor) she deals with the subject of a seemingly loveless marriage that turns out not to be so. Just like Mitchell, Caridad explores the human psychology from the perspective of a protagonist who ignores her true emotions and goes through a process of realizing the feelings that were there all along. Hence a love and hate relationship begins until finally the emotional worlds of the couple come to light. Her male figure is always a dashing Rhett Buttler, noble, strong but hiding his feelings behind irony. Her female figure on the other hand varies keeping as only thing in common with Mitchell’s Scarlet O'Hara, her strength of character and stubbornness.

Films as an actress

* "Corazón bandolero" (1934)

As a writer

Novels

* "Bodas de odio"
* "La imperdonable"
* "La intrusa"
* "Corazón salvaje" (1956)
* "La mentira o el amor nunca muere" (1952)
* "Yo no creo en los hombres"
* "Marejada"
* "Trópico"
* "Reverbación"
* "Cuatrilogía primordial"
* "Pétalos sueltos" (1924)
* "Tzintzuntzn" (La Noche de los Muertos)-1967

Plays

* "Agustín Ramírez" (1962)

Films

* "La mentira" (1970)
* "Estafa de amor" (1970)
* "Corazón salvaje" (1968)
* "Deborah" (1968)
* "Cuentan de una mujer" (1959)
* "Orgullo de mujer" (1956, novel "El otro")
* "Corazón salvaje" (1956)
* "Pecado mortal" (1955)
* "La mentira" (1952)

Telenovelas

* "Tormenta en el paraiso" (2008)original title "azul infierno""("hellcolored blue")
* "El amor no tiene precio" (2005)
* "La esposa virgen" (2005) remake of "Tormenta de pasiones"
* "Canavial de Paixões" (2003) Brazilian remake of "Cañaveral de pasiones"
* "Velo de novia" (2003)
* "Amor real" (2003) remake of "Bodas de odio"
* "Jamais Te Esquecerei" (2003) Brazilian remake of "Nunca te olvidaré"
* "Abrázame muy fuerte" (2000) remake of "Pecado mortal"
* "Siempre te amaré" (2000) remake of "Lo imperdonable"
* "Por tu amor" (1999) remake of "El otro"
* "Nunca te olvidaré" (1999) remake of "Yo sé que nunca"
* "La mentira" (1998)
* "Desencuentro" (1997) remake of "El enemigo"
* "Cañaveral de pasiones" (1996)
* "Corazón salvaje" (1993)
* "Yo no creo en los hombres" (1988)
* "El engaño" (1986) remake of "Estafa de amor"
* "Herencia maldita" (1986)
* "El amor nunca muere" (1984) remake of "La mentira"
* "Bodas de odio" (1983)
* "Conflictos de un médico" (1980)
* "Aprendiendo a amar" (1979)
* "El enemigo" (1979) (adaptation)
* "J.J. Juez" (1979)
* "Domenica Montero" (1978)
* "Corazón salvaje" (1977)
* "Lo imperdonable" (1975)
* "La hiena" (1973)
* "Velo de novia" (1971)
* "El precio de un hombre" (1970)
* "Yo sé que nunca" (1970)
* "No creo en los hombres" (1969)
* "Águeda" (1968)
* "Pasión gitana" (1968)
* "Amor en el desierto" (1967)
* "Deborah" (1967)
* "Estafa de amor" (1967)
* "Lo prohibido" (1967)
* "Sueña conmigo Donaji" (1967)
* "Calúnia" (1966) (original story)
* "Corazón salvaje" (1966)
* "Cristina Guzmán" (1966)
* "La mentira" (1965)
* "Más allá del corazón" (1963)
* "Adiós, amor mío" (1962)
* "El enemigo" (1961)
* "Estafa de amor" (1961)
* "El otro" (1960)
* "Pecado mortal" (1960)

Awards

* Nezahualcóyolt medal of the Mexican Writers Guild

External links

* [http://www.sbt.com.br/jamais/historia/perfil.asp Biography]
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