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Biography
Mimí Bechelani is a Mexican screenwriter. She has spent her entire career writing for Televisa. Bechelani has also been a radio announcer, as well as a writer of poetry, novels, dramas, films, and theater scripts.
Biography
Although her father died when she was young, Bechelani received a good education, studying painting, English, French, history and theater. She accompanied Amparo Villegas to New York to dub English films in Spanish. There, she also worked as a theater actress. In 1952, she worked at Radio Femenina. Bechelani worked as a school teacher. She married a doctor, but they had no children.
Bechelani has written extensively, creating more than 200 works for radio and television. She is best known for being the author of the 1959 telenovela, Teresa. It was made into a film in 1961 (starring Maricruz Olivier) and was remade into four telenovelas, three with that title.
Selected television works
Original stories
- (1958) Más allá de la angustia
- (1959) Teresa
- (1960) Claudia
- (1962) El profesor Valdez
- (1963) Madres egoístas
- (1964) Historia de un cobarde
- (1965) Las abuelas
- (1967) Amor sublime
- (1967) El cuarto mandamiento
- (1967) Las víctimas
- (1968) Pueblo sin esperanza
- (1969) El ciego
- (1969) Lo que no fue
- (1970) Aventura
- (1974) El chofer
- (1979) Añoranza
- (1989) Teresa
- (1992) Madres Egoístas
- (2010) Teresa
Adaptations
- Mi rival (1973) (original by Inés Rodena)
- Los que ayudan a Dios (1973) (original by Nené Cascallar)
- Mi primer amor (1973) (original by Walter Negrao)
Remakes written herself
- El honorable Señor Valdez (1973) (remake of El profesor Valdez)
- El cuarto mandamiento (1967) (remake of Teresa)
Remakes written by others
- Teresa (2010) (remake of Teresa) by Ximena Suárez
- Madres egoístas (1991) (remake of Madres egoístas) by Josefina Palos y Romo
- Teresa (1989) (remake of Teresa) by Silvia Castillejos and Francisco Sánchez
- Teresa (1969) (Brazilian remake of Teresa) by Raimundo Lopez.
Poetry
- (1970) Fuego al sol; poemas eróticos