La Dueña

La Dueña (Spanish: The owner (female) or The Chairwoman) can mean:

La dueña (Venezuelan telenovela)

La Dueña (1984–1985) is a Venezuelan telenovela that was produced by and seen on Venezuela's Venezolana de Televisión. An original script written by renowned Venezuelan telenovela writer José Ignacio Cabrujas in collaboration with Julio César Marmol. The telenovela was inspired from the novel The Count of Monte Cristo written by Alexandre Dumas, though they changed the protagonist from male to female. Nardy Fernández was in charge of production, José Salas was in charge of the scenery, María de las Casas was in charge of the environmentation, and Tomás López was its director.

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La Dueña (1995 telenovela)

La Dueña is a Mexican telenovela produced by Florinda Meza in 1995 for Televisa. It was transmitted by El Canal de las Estrellas in Mexico and Univision in the United States in 1995 and 1998, and on Galavisión in 2000.

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Life smiles at Regina Villarreal (Angélica Rivera), a young and beautiful woman who inherits a fortune from her deceased parents. Regina lives with her aunt Berenice Villarreal Vda. de Castro (Norma Herrera), whom she loves as if she were her own mother; her unbearable cousin, Laura Castro Villarreal (Cynthia Klitbo), and Laura’s inseparable nana, Martina (Josefina Echánove).

Laura envies her cousin and believes that she is more deserving of all that Regina has, so she decides to make Regina suffer. Her first move is to seduce Regina's fiancé, Mauricio (Eduardo Santamarina), who is only after Regina’s money. On her wedding day, Mauricio leaves Regina at the altar, which shatters her heart and makes it grow cold and bitter.

Regina moves to one of her properties, Los Cascabeles ("The Bells"), a ranch far away from the capital. She becomes a resentful and indomitable woman, “La Dueña” ("The Owner"), as her employees call her, and her reputation earns her the nickname “Víbora” (“Viper”) from the locals.