Mimí Bechelani

Mimí Bechelani de la Peña, better known as Mimí Bechelani, was a Mexican actress, writer and screenwriter. She had spent her entire career writing for Televisa. Bechelani was also a radio announcer, as well as a writer of poetry, novels, dramas, films, and theater scripts.

Biography and life[]

Mimí Bechelani de la Peña was born in Mexico City, Mexico, on September 5, 1917. Since she was a little girl she had a big imagination, was an avid reader and started to write since she was on elementary school. As a child, her father died, but her mother struggled to her daughter had a good education.^[1] Bechelani studied painting, English, French, history and theater. She accompanied to New York to dub English films in Spanish, hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on the 1940s. There, she also worked as a theater actress. In 1952, she worked at . She also worked at successful radio station XEW,^[2] as a writer and voice announcer. To survive, Bechelani worked as a high school teacher. She married a doctor, Mario Hernández, but they had no children. Their marriage lasted until he died.

Bechelani has written extensively, creating more than 200 works for radio and television.^[3] 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.^[4]

Mimí Bechelani died in 1992.

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 )

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
Madres egoístas (1991) (remake of Madres egoístas) by Josefina Palos y Romo
Teresa (1989) (remake of Teresa) by Silvia Castillejos and Francisco Sánchez
(1969) (Brazilian remake of Teresa) by .

Poetry[]

(1970) Fuego al sol; poemas eróticos

References[]

^ Elena, Anna (2011-05-23). "El Arte: Un Nuevo Motivo para Vivir..: Mimí Bechelani (in Spanish)". El Arte. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
^ Nájar, Salvador. "Facebook - Mimí Bechelani (penultimate on acting group) with a group of actors at XEW on the 1950s-60s". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2022-02-26.
^ Roberto, Luis (6 January 2003). "Biografía de Mimí Bechelani" (in Spanish). Network 54. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
^ Plasse, Marcel (9 October 2012). "Séries acham nova inspiração: as novelas" (in Portuguese). Universo Online. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.

External links[]

Mimí Bechelani at IMDb

[1] Elena, Anna (2011-05-23). "El Arte: Un Nuevo Motivo para Vivir..: Mimí Bechelani (in Spanish)". El Arte. Retrieved 2022-02-26.

[2] Nájar, Salvador. "Facebook - Mimí Bechelani (penultimate on acting group) with a group of actors at XEW on the 1950s-60s". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2022-02-26.

[Roberto2003-3] Roberto, Luis (6 January 2003). "Biografía de Mimí Bechelani" (in Spanish). Network 54. Retrieved 30 October 2014.

[Plasse2012-4] Plasse, Marcel (9 October 2012). "Séries acham nova inspiração: as novelas" (in Portuguese). Universo Online. Archived from the original on 31 October 2014. Retrieved 31 October 2014.

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