Mimí Bechelani
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.
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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.[1] 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.[2]
Selected television works
Original stories
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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
