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*La dueña*
La dueña
	From left to right: Félix Fernández (Benjamín Vicuña), Sofía Ponte (Mirtha Legrand) and Amparo Lacroix (Florencia Bertotti)
Genre	Miniseries
Created by	Martín Kweller; Nacho Viale;
Written by	Marcelo Camaño
Directed by	Diego Palacio; Mariano Ardanaz; Jesus Braceras;
Starring	Mirtha Legrand; Florencia Bertotti; Benjamín Vicuña;
Opening theme	Es la dueña
Composer	Abel Pintos
Country of origin	Argentina
Original language	Spanish
Production
Executive producer	Vanessa Tevez
Producer	Endemol
Original release
Release	April 18, 2012

La Dueña (English: The Chairwoman) is a 2012 Argentine miniseries. It is a blockbuster starring Mirtha Legrand, who worked on this series after 46 years of retirement from acting in television.^[1]^[2]

Plot

Sofía Ponte is a successful businesswoman, heading an important cosmetics firm. She does not trust her sons and heirs, and organizes a plot to see which of them are trustworthy. Her granddaughter Amparo loses her parents in a plane accident, and begins a romance with Félix, the son of the pilot. Félix takes a job at the firm, and secretly investigates the plane crash, suspecting that it was not an accident.

Cast

Mirtha Legrand as Sofía Ponte de Lacroix
Florencia Bertotti as Amparo Lacroix
Benjamín Vicuña as Esteban Salerno/Félix Fernández
Raúl Taibo as Juan Lacroix Ponte
Juan Gil Navarro as Federico Lacroix Ponte
Fabián Vena as Diego Lacroix Ponte
Claudia Lapacó as Teresa Fernández
Federico D'Elía as Hernán Verges
Andrea Frigerio as Lourdes Rivero de Lacroix
Juan Pedro Lanzani as Eliseo Lacroix Rivero
Brenda Gandini as Delfina Lacroix Rivero
Carlos Portaluppi as Sergio Matienzo
Jorgelina Aruzzi as Daniela Pereyra Rossi
Manuela Pal as Magdalena "Maggy" Rodríguez Costa
Alfredo Casero as Oliverio Carranza
Mónica Cabrera as Helena Rossi
Jorge D'Elía as Martín Braun
Dolores Sarmiento as Mariela Echegoyen
Daniela Aita as Nina Marini
Graciela Dufau as Una amiga de Sofía
Juan Ignacio Machado as Un matón
Nacha Guevara as Carmen Salguero Solar
Enrique Pinti as Dante Olivos Peña
Daniel Rabinovich as Salvador Santos
Juana Viale as Cecilia Peralta Ramos
Sebastián Estevanez as Marcos Guerrero
Héctor Giovine as Milton Lacroix
Enrique Liporace as Renzo Pereyra Lucena
Julia Calvo as La Cura
Veronica Mertel as Valeria Kantz

Production

Mirtha Legrand began her career as a successful actress, and retired in 1965. She began to work as a TV host, in Almorzando con Mirtha Legrand (English: Having a dinner with Mirtha Legrand), a talk show themed as a dinner, which lasted for several years. Her last previous acting work was in a stage play in 1990; she had not appeared on television as an actress for 46 years.^[2] La Dueña was scripted by Nacho Viale, grandson of Mirtha Legrand. She did not like the idea of acting at first, because of her age, but soon reconsidered and accepted. The original proposed name was "La Doña" ("Doña" is the Spanish female form of the honorific title "Don"), and the main character was scripted as the president of a news agency. The producer Martín Kweller proposed the changes to the name used and the cosmetics firm.^[1]

The cast of the miniseries features several of the most important actors of Argentina.^[1]

The program was initially scheduled to run on Sundays at 22:00 on Telefe, competing with the investigative journalism television program Periodismo para todos (English: Journalism for all) on channel 13.^[3] However, it was finally scheduled for Wednesdays at 22:30, competing with Bailando 2012 (English: Dancing 2012). The premiere achieved almost 30.9 rating points.^[2]

Reception

The miniseries was praised by La Nación for the scripts and the production. The shooting, the locations, the cast and the editing have good quality. Although the point of main interest for the audience is Legrand's acting, the miniseries does not rely solely on her.^[4]

The newspaper also criticised the use of outdated cliches at certain points in the plot, the presence of a comic relief character in a dramatic work, and the excessive use of metafictional allusions to Mirtha Legrand herself in the Sofía Conte character.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Antonela Minitti (April 17, 2012). "Quién es quién en La Dueña" [Who is who in La Dueña] (in Spanish). La Nación. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "La Dueña arrasó en el rating" [La Dueña prevailed in the rating] (in Spanish). La Nación. April 19, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
^ "La dueña, con fecha de estreno" [La Dueña, with premiere day] (in Spanish). La Nación. April 9, 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2012.
^ ^a ^b Ricardo Marín (April 20, 2012). "La Dueña". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved September 28, 2012.