Caridad Bravo Adams (1908–1990)
Author of Corazon Salvaje Primera Parte (Spanish Edition)
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Works by Caridad Bravo Adams
Corazon Salvaje 2 copies
Alma Y Carne 1 copy
Tropico de Fuego 1 copy
Deborah 1 copy
Alma en la sombra 1 copy
Soledad 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Bravo Adams, Caridad
- Birthdate
- 1908-01-14
- Date of death
- 1990-08-13
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- Mexico
- Birthplace
- Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico
- Place of death
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Relationships
- Bravo, Leon (brother)
- Short biography
- Caridad Bravo Adams was born on 14 January 1908 in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, 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 later returned to 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 later 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, 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. She passed away on 13 August 1990 in Mexico City.
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LA MENTIRA (The Lie) was inspired by Shakespeare's OTHELLO (book version also included "incriminating" handkerchief "proof"); however, Kate's version of strong heroine Veronica --which means "true image" --gets a happy ever after ending, after teaching her deluded husband a lesson which is very entertaining to watch.
One day, I also hope that the COMPLETE telenovela version of LA MENTIRA starring Kate Del Castillo and Guy Ecker will become available. While I probably would fast-forward through most of sub-plots involving minor characters added to original story, the only DVD edition currently available cuts out "essentials", such as the wonderful---PERFECT!-- theme song sung by Vicente Fernandez, "Me Voy a quitar de en medio " that can be heard on Youtube (I was so disappointed with changes to scene when Demetrio serenades Veronica on the balcony... see below
I do own old movie version of LA MENTIRA on DVD but haven't viewed yet; someday I'd also love to see any other early film or telenovela versions (but I can't stand any made after Kate & Guy's definitive enterpretation so far). Maybe book and movie versions could be packaged together like I think is being done for Harry Potter.
Search for "La Mentira entrada" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06f2cq9Pp-E , "100% pura quimica" and chapter 11 i.e. "La Mentira cap 11 (part 1)"--tho blurry and no English captions of DVD, still lovely seranata scene.
Also "Mejores Ecenas de la Mentira Parte 1". LM's color symbolism (for example,yellow for the poisonous lie or blossoms of the "mala hierba" or weed which spreads through their lives, blue perhaps for cold-heartedness, brown for mud in song lyrics soiling memories, green for life or family tree?, pink for dawn/revelations, red for love) may have inspired Julio Jimenez to create his own system of symbolic use of color, from sunrise to sunset & night in his own stories.… (more)