Dame Chocolate
Encyclopedia
Dame Chocolate is a 2007 Spanish-language telenovela
, which was produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo
and aired from March 5 until October 5, 2007. This limited-run serial stars Génesis Rodríguez
as a sweet, simple girl who leaves rural Mexico
for Miami to fulfill her destiny in the chocolate business. Elements of this romantic soap opera resemble Ugly Betty
, the Tammy films, The Beverly Hillbillies
and No Holds Barred
.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
and Xenon Pictures
released a four-disc DVD set of Dame Chocolate in the US on November 27, 2007. The abridged version runs over 13 hours. It includes English subtitles and carries a TV-PG rating.
This telenovela was sold to 23 countries around the world.
), struggles to find love, fulfillment and acceptance. She grew up in the village of Xochilcacahuatel with humble, uncultured relatives who worship Ek Chuah, an ancient idol. When her grandfather Juan Amado (Héctor Suárez)-- who was known as "The Chocolate King" -- dies, she is the only person left who knows the secret Mayan
recipe that built his corporate empire.
While Rosita has a curvaceous body, she also has a big nose and buck teeth. She falls madly in love with charming chocolatier Bruce Remington (Carlos Ponce
), the handsome heir to a candy factory, Chocolate Supremo. Their lives will interlace when Juan chooses her to take his place and teaches her the secret recipe. So Rosita heads to Florida to fulfill her grandfather's last wish, bringing her deaf great-aunt Dulce (Maria Antonieta de las Nieves
), her uncle, Diosdado (Ricardo Chavez), and the rest of her extended family with her. (Telemundo publicity referred to them as an "assortment" of "uncouth relatives.")http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/prnewswire/press_releases/California/2007/10/10/LAW020
Meanwhile Bruce's mother, Grace Remington, (Kristina Lilley
), an unscrupulous and overly ambitious woman (and Juan's stepdaughter) is claiming that the factory is near bankruptcy
and ruthlessly plots against Rosita, becoming the young girl's most dedicated enemy. Grace wants the inheritance and the secret recipe. She enlists the help of her son's lover, Samantha Porter, (Karla Monroig
), and talk Bruce into seducing Rosita.
When Bruce realizes that he truly loves Rosita, his mother has already plotted her downfall. Rosita must confront the Remington and fight for her grandfather's legacy. Meanwhile, Ángel Pérez (Khotan
), a brutal, dangerous man from the past threatens Rosita's fresh start.
Rosita finds romance, deception
and betrayal
as she searches for true happiness in a new world. She learns about the dangers of hatred
, jealousy
and vengeance
. The heroine finds herself caught between two powerful forces: love and chocolate.
To continue the story, Bruce was going to marry Rosita, so of course his mother and Samantha tried to stop it by lying to Rosita and saying that Bruce was actually going to marry Samantha instead of Rosita. Rosita was heartbroken and she left the state with Angel, swearing revenge on the Remingtons and Samantha Porter. Somewhere in Texas, she escaped an explosion at a restaurant and survived, but her family, friends, and enemies all assumed her dead. Rosita was then kidnapped by a criminal, and met a man who promised to make her better looking.
Rosita went to a show and transformed into a sexy, beautiful lady by way of plastic surgery that fixed her nose and teeth. She met again with Bruce (with her name changed to Violeta) and Bruce was attracted to her and pursued her. Bruce suspected that Violeta is Rosita, but Violeta was clever and didn't let Bruce know who she really was, and avoided showing Bruce her back since Rosita had a birthmark on her back and so did Violeta. All through this, Samantha was jealous that Bruce loved Violeta and ended up dying.
Later on Rosita finds out that Bruce really loves Violeta and tries to leave before it gets any worse, but Bruce kept pestering her and they ended up making love a few times. But Rosita was really afraid of hurting Bruce and ruining him once he finds out that she is really Rosita, and it doesn't help either that later on she begins to suspect that he is in fact innocent, and it was all Grace's fault, and he was oblivious to the plans of her downfall. Rosita then continues on with her plans of revenge and takes legal action against the Remingtons because of all the pain they put her through and how they stole her grandfather's factory away from her, and took her inheritance back. Once Bruce finds out that Violeta and Rosita are the same person, he is really angry, but then spills his heart out to her, and she ends up rejecting him. This leads him to literally hate her guts. Bruce, in an attempt to move on, falls mildly in love with, and marries Samantha's twin sister, Debora. Bruce later finds out that Lorenzo, the gardener at his home and the man who saw him grow up and knows everything about him, is in fact his biological father instead of the late Mr. Remington, due to a night spent with Grace Remington herself.
Rosita continues being good friends with Fabian, and this makes Bruce insanely jealous because of how Fabian once told him that he liked Violeta, and now he was always by Rosita's side. But besides that fact, Rosita continued to love Bruce and Bruce loved her even though he was married. Rosita realized that she was pregnant with Bruce's child, and when she went to tell the news to Bruce, she encountered Debora at his apartment in nothing but one of Bruce's shirts, and Rosita immediately assumed the worst. So Bruce doesn't find out about the baby until much, much later.
Bruce finds out about the pregnancy one night when he comes to Rosita's house with plans to see Lorenzo, but encounters Rosita in the pool instead. He sees her bare belly and she admits that she is pregnant. Debora and Fabian at least realized that their couples didn't love them, so they vowed to allow Bruce and Rosita space to rekindle their love. Rosita was kidnapped by Angel and Grace after a party for months until it was almost time for the baby to be born. Rosita told Grace that her child was Bruce's, and she changed her mind about killing the baby because she hadn't known this, so she attacked Angel so Rosita could escape once she began to go into labor. Grace ended up killing Angel, in the tussle that ensued and got stabbed herself in the process.
Finally when Rosita escaped from Angel she found a place to gave birth in the basement of a house, Bruce was called by Grace and she told him where Rosita was, and he found Rosita while she was in labor and helped her to gave a birth to their baby. At the end Angel died by getting stabbed by Grace's hand, and Grace died because she went a little crazy at the end and followed the face of Juan Amado into a lake and drowned. Bruce and Rosita ended up together again with their child.
announced Dame Chocolate in May, 2006, the cast included Mauricio Ochmann
as Bruce, Zharick Leon as Samantha and Erick Elías
as Angel. All three performers moved to other Telemundo serials. Ochmann left for Marina
, Leon went to La Viuda de Blanco
and Elias joined Zorro: La Espada y La Rosa
. They were replaced by Carlos Ponce
, Karla Monroig
, and Khotan Fernández
. In addition, Venezuelan singer José Luis Rodríguez, father of star Génesis Rodríguez
was also announced as part of the cast, but did not appear.http://www.hispanicad.com/cgi-bin/news/newsarticle.cgi?article_id=19260
Along with cast changes, Telemundo also made a major story shift. Rosita was originally to love Angel Pérez, who was engaged to another woman. The story that aired portrayed Angel as a villainous murderer and sexual predator.http://www.nbcumarketplace.com/marketplace2/_broadcast/Telemundo/downloads/dame_chocolate-1.pdf
After leaving Marina
, Ochmann eventually rejoined the cast of Dame Chocolate. He took the role of Fabián Duque, a fashion photographer who falls for Rosita. His first air date was June 13, 2007.
made product placement
deals with The Clorox Company, Ford
, IKEA
, and other companies to promote their brands during the show. Clorox cleaning products can be seen throughout the Remington home, for example. These product placements are digitally altered to match the products available in each country airing the show.http://www.adweek.com/aw/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003661110
In addition, characters made excursions to Lowe's
, Wal-Mart
and Universal Studios Florida
. Also, IKEA
designed two bedroom sets for the show, "designed to reflect the culturally distinct style of two of the Latina characters." It displayed the furnishings in selected stores. The promotion also planned "program vignettes" during the broadcast, featuring actresses Karla Monroig
and Kristina Lilley
.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070306000000-ikeapremieressetd.html
Wal-Mart
received a "featured role" on Dame Chocolate. Part of an episode was filmed at a supercenter in Hialeah, Florida Wal-Mart also agreed to do promotions in stores and online. The chain previously did a marketing deal for Watch Over Me
.http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070626006499&newsLang=en
broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Originally, it scheduled 120 installments and extended its run to 130 episodes.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070626006499&newsLang=en This show is also known as Sweet Secret.http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=74&article=34872 It is filmed in Miami and some scenes were shot on location on the Rickenbacker Causeway
.http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/070726/filming.shtml
The name Dame Chocolate is a bilingual pun. It means "give me chocolate" in Spanish. It also implies that Rosita fills the role of dame of chocolate, referring to the traditional English title of nobility. Génesis Rodríguez
was made less attractive with a false nose and teeth to play the innocent Rosita.
touted Dame Chocolate as a ratings success, with May 2007 sweeps ratings up 34 percent among Hispanic adults ages 18–34. The show also won its time slot among those viewers in New York and Miami.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070530000000-telemundo039shig.html The next month, Dames time slot (which included one soccer preemption) averaged 591,000 core adult viewers (ages 18 to 49), according to Nielsen Media Research.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070703000000-telemundo039spri.html?rss=1
‘’Top Chef 3 Miami’’ shot the "Latin Lunch" episode (in English) on the Remington Mansion exterior set featuring Rodriguez and Lilley, along with Natallia Streignard of Las Brujas De South Beach
. Contestants were told to create an authentic Latin meal. The episode debuted on Bravo on July 18, 2007.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070712000000-lasestrellasdetel.html?rss=1. One contestant mentions "Dame Chocolate" is "huge in Mexico", although it was never widely broadcast in that country.
Telenovela
A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...
, which was produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo
Telemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
and aired from March 5 until October 5, 2007. This limited-run serial stars Génesis Rodríguez
Génesis Rodríguez
Génesis Rodríguez Pérez is an American actress of soap operas. She is best known for her roles in the Telemundo TV series Prisionera, Dame Chocolate and Doña Bárbara. She also played Becky Ferrer on Days of our Lives.- Biography :Génesis Rodríguez Pérez was born in July 29, 1987 in Miami, Florida...
as a sweet, simple girl who leaves rural Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
for Miami to fulfill her destiny in the chocolate business. Elements of this romantic soap opera resemble Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta, which premiered on ABC on September 28, 2006, and ended on April 14, 2010. The series revolves around the character Betty Suarez and is based on Fernando Gaitán's Colombian telenovela soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea...
, the Tammy films, The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for nine seasons on CBS from 1962 to 1971, starring Buddy Ebsen, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas, and Max Baer, Jr....
and No Holds Barred
No Holds Barred
No Holds Barred is a 1989 film produced by Michael Rachmil, directed by Thomas J. Wright, written by Dennis Hackin and starring professional wrestler Hulk Hogan...
.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Lionsgate Home Entertainment is the home video and DVD distribution arm of Lions Gate Entertainment and most former Artisan Entertainment releases. Its library of more than 8000 films owes some of its size to output deals with other studios...
and Xenon Pictures
Xenon Pictures
Xenon Pictures is an American film production and distribution company founded by S. Leigh Savidge in 1986.- Company information :Founded in 1986 with $17,000 in startup capital, Xenon is recognized in the industry for developing the nation’s first label for independent black cinema...
released a four-disc DVD set of Dame Chocolate in the US on November 27, 2007. The abridged version runs over 13 hours. It includes English subtitles and carries a TV-PG rating.
This telenovela was sold to 23 countries around the world.
Plot
An awkward, shy girl named Rosita Amado (Génesis RodríguezGénesis Rodríguez
Génesis Rodríguez Pérez is an American actress of soap operas. She is best known for her roles in the Telemundo TV series Prisionera, Dame Chocolate and Doña Bárbara. She also played Becky Ferrer on Days of our Lives.- Biography :Génesis Rodríguez Pérez was born in July 29, 1987 in Miami, Florida...
), struggles to find love, fulfillment and acceptance. She grew up in the village of Xochilcacahuatel with humble, uncultured relatives who worship Ek Chuah, an ancient idol. When her grandfather Juan Amado (Héctor Suárez)-- who was known as "The Chocolate King" -- dies, she is the only person left who knows the secret Mayan
Maya civilization
The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...
recipe that built his corporate empire.
While Rosita has a curvaceous body, she also has a big nose and buck teeth. She falls madly in love with charming chocolatier Bruce Remington (Carlos Ponce
Carlos Ponce
Carlos Armando Ponce, Jr. is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce continued to expand his acting career by participating in various American television...
), the handsome heir to a candy factory, Chocolate Supremo. Their lives will interlace when Juan chooses her to take his place and teaches her the secret recipe. So Rosita heads to Florida to fulfill her grandfather's last wish, bringing her deaf great-aunt Dulce (Maria Antonieta de las Nieves
María Antonieta de las Nieves
María Antonieta de las Nieves is a Mexican actress of voice-over, film, and television; best known for her portrayal of "La Chilindrina" in the Televisa sitcom, El Chavo del Ocho...
), her uncle, Diosdado (Ricardo Chavez), and the rest of her extended family with her. (Telemundo publicity referred to them as an "assortment" of "uncouth relatives.")http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/prnewswire/press_releases/California/2007/10/10/LAW020
Meanwhile Bruce's mother, Grace Remington, (Kristina Lilley
Kristina Lilley
Kristina Lilley is an American-Colombian actress best known for numerous roles in Spanish-language soap operas. Recently, she has appeared in several telenovelas produced by Telemundo. Her latest TV series is Dame Chocolate.Lilley was born in New York, although her family moved to Colombia when...
), an unscrupulous and overly ambitious woman (and Juan's stepdaughter) is claiming that the factory is near bankruptcy
Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy is a legal status of an insolvent person or an organisation, that is, one that cannot repay the debts owed to creditors. In most jurisdictions bankruptcy is imposed by a court order, often initiated by the debtor....
and ruthlessly plots against Rosita, becoming the young girl's most dedicated enemy. Grace wants the inheritance and the secret recipe. She enlists the help of her son's lover, Samantha Porter, (Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig is an actress, model and television host.-Early years:Karla Monroig was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, located on the southern coastal valley region of the island of Puerto Rico...
), and talk Bruce into seducing Rosita.
When Bruce realizes that he truly loves Rosita, his mother has already plotted her downfall. Rosita must confront the Remington and fight for her grandfather's legacy. Meanwhile, Ángel Pérez (Khotan
Khotan
Hotan , or Hetian , also spelled Khotan, is the seat of the Hotan Prefecture in Xinjiang, China. It was previously known in Chinese as 于窴/於窴 and to 19th-century European explorers as Ilchi....
), a brutal, dangerous man from the past threatens Rosita's fresh start.
Rosita finds romance, deception
Deception
Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, bad faith, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth . Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment...
and betrayal
Betrayal
Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations...
as she searches for true happiness in a new world. She learns about the dangers of hatred
Hatred
Hatred is a deep and emotional extreme dislike, directed against a certain object or class of objects. The objects of such hatred can vary widely, from inanimate objects to animals, oneself or other people, entire groups of people, people in general, existence, or the whole world...
, jealousy
Jealousy
Jealousy is a second emotion and typically refers to the negative thoughts and feelings of insecurity, fear, and anxiety over an anticipated loss of something that the person values, particularly in reference to a human connection. Jealousy often consists of a combination of presenting emotions...
and vengeance
Revenge
Revenge is a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived. It is also called payback, retribution, retaliation or vengeance; it may be characterized, justly or unjustly, as a form of justice.-Function in society:Some societies believe that the...
. The heroine finds herself caught between two powerful forces: love and chocolate.
To continue the story, Bruce was going to marry Rosita, so of course his mother and Samantha tried to stop it by lying to Rosita and saying that Bruce was actually going to marry Samantha instead of Rosita. Rosita was heartbroken and she left the state with Angel, swearing revenge on the Remingtons and Samantha Porter. Somewhere in Texas, she escaped an explosion at a restaurant and survived, but her family, friends, and enemies all assumed her dead. Rosita was then kidnapped by a criminal, and met a man who promised to make her better looking.
Rosita went to a show and transformed into a sexy, beautiful lady by way of plastic surgery that fixed her nose and teeth. She met again with Bruce (with her name changed to Violeta) and Bruce was attracted to her and pursued her. Bruce suspected that Violeta is Rosita, but Violeta was clever and didn't let Bruce know who she really was, and avoided showing Bruce her back since Rosita had a birthmark on her back and so did Violeta. All through this, Samantha was jealous that Bruce loved Violeta and ended up dying.
Later on Rosita finds out that Bruce really loves Violeta and tries to leave before it gets any worse, but Bruce kept pestering her and they ended up making love a few times. But Rosita was really afraid of hurting Bruce and ruining him once he finds out that she is really Rosita, and it doesn't help either that later on she begins to suspect that he is in fact innocent, and it was all Grace's fault, and he was oblivious to the plans of her downfall. Rosita then continues on with her plans of revenge and takes legal action against the Remingtons because of all the pain they put her through and how they stole her grandfather's factory away from her, and took her inheritance back. Once Bruce finds out that Violeta and Rosita are the same person, he is really angry, but then spills his heart out to her, and she ends up rejecting him. This leads him to literally hate her guts. Bruce, in an attempt to move on, falls mildly in love with, and marries Samantha's twin sister, Debora. Bruce later finds out that Lorenzo, the gardener at his home and the man who saw him grow up and knows everything about him, is in fact his biological father instead of the late Mr. Remington, due to a night spent with Grace Remington herself.
Rosita continues being good friends with Fabian, and this makes Bruce insanely jealous because of how Fabian once told him that he liked Violeta, and now he was always by Rosita's side. But besides that fact, Rosita continued to love Bruce and Bruce loved her even though he was married. Rosita realized that she was pregnant with Bruce's child, and when she went to tell the news to Bruce, she encountered Debora at his apartment in nothing but one of Bruce's shirts, and Rosita immediately assumed the worst. So Bruce doesn't find out about the baby until much, much later.
Bruce finds out about the pregnancy one night when he comes to Rosita's house with plans to see Lorenzo, but encounters Rosita in the pool instead. He sees her bare belly and she admits that she is pregnant. Debora and Fabian at least realized that their couples didn't love them, so they vowed to allow Bruce and Rosita space to rekindle their love. Rosita was kidnapped by Angel and Grace after a party for months until it was almost time for the baby to be born. Rosita told Grace that her child was Bruce's, and she changed her mind about killing the baby because she hadn't known this, so she attacked Angel so Rosita could escape once she began to go into labor. Grace ended up killing Angel, in the tussle that ensued and got stabbed herself in the process.
Finally when Rosita escaped from Angel she found a place to gave birth in the basement of a house, Bruce was called by Grace and she told him where Rosita was, and he found Rosita while she was in labor and helped her to gave a birth to their baby. At the end Angel died by getting stabbed by Grace's hand, and Grace died because she went a little crazy at the end and followed the face of Juan Amado into a lake and drowned. Bruce and Rosita ended up together again with their child.
Cast
- Carlos PonceCarlos PonceCarlos Armando Ponce, Jr. is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce continued to expand his acting career by participating in various American television...
as Bruce Remington - Main hero - Génesis RodríguezGénesis RodríguezGénesis Rodríguez Pérez is an American actress of soap operas. She is best known for her roles in the Telemundo TV series Prisionera, Dame Chocolate and Doña Bárbara. She also played Becky Ferrer on Days of our Lives.- Biography :Génesis Rodríguez Pérez was born in July 29, 1987 in Miami, Florida...
as Rosita Amado - Main heroine - María Antonieta de las NievesMaría Antonieta de las NievesMaría Antonieta de las Nieves is a Mexican actress of voice-over, film, and television; best known for her portrayal of "La Chilindrina" in the Televisa sitcom, El Chavo del Ocho...
as Dulce Amado - Great-aunt of Rosita, mother of Diosdado and Hortensia - Kristina LilleyKristina LilleyKristina Lilley is an American-Colombian actress best known for numerous roles in Spanish-language soap operas. Recently, she has appeared in several telenovelas produced by Telemundo. Her latest TV series is Dame Chocolate.Lilley was born in New York, although her family moved to Colombia when...
as Grace Remington - Mother of Bruce, villain (Drowned) - Ricardo Chávez as Diosdado Amado - Uncle of Rosita, in love with Julia
- Jullye GilibertiJullye GilibertiJullye Kayherine Giliberti Cevedo is a Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas. She has appeared in several series, including La Ley del silencio, Amores de Mercado and Prisionera...
as Julia Arismendi - Friend of Samantha, in love with Diosdado - Karla MonroigKarla MonroigKarla Monroig is an actress, model and television host.-Early years:Karla Monroig was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, located on the southern coastal valley region of the island of Puerto Rico...
as Samantha Porter / Deborah Porter - In love with Bruce, villain (Killed by the police) / Samantha's twin, also in love with Bruce (Dies from leukemia) - Khotan FernándezKhotan FernándezKhotan Fernández in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, is a Mexican actor sometimes simply known as Khotan.-Early life:...
as Ángel Pérez - Obsessed with Rosita, villain (Killed by Grace) - Rosalinda Rodríguez as Hortensia Amado - Mother of Azucena and aunt of Rosita, in love with Mauricio
- Eduardo SerranoEduardo Serrano (actor)Andrés Eduardo Serrano Acevedo is an actor, best known as the evil patron Rogelio Vivas in Coral International telenovela Juana la virgen....
as Lorenzo Flores / Lorenzo Amado - Father of Bruce, half-brother of Dulce and Juan - Alvaro Ruiz as Luis - Butler at Remington mansion, transgendered
- Frank Falcon as Dr. Bob - Best friend of Bruce, in love with Ligia
- Gustavo FrancoGustavo FrancoGustavo Franco is a Brazilian economist, born April 10, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro.-Career:Son of Maria Isabel Barbosa de Barroso Franco and Guilherme Arinos Lima Verde de Barroso Franco, who was a friend and assistant of President Getúlio Vargas, and also a member of the first board of Directors of...
as Mauricio Duque - Lawyer, father of Fabián, in love with Hortensia - Adriana Acosta as Matilde - Maid at Remington mansion
- Taniusha Capote as Azucena Amado - Cousin of Rosita, in love with Jose
- Pedro Moreno as José Gutierrez - In love with Azucena
- Riczabeth Sobalvarro as Eulalia - Maid at Remington mansion, in love with Angel, then with Anacleto
- Jessica Pacheco as Ligia - Maid at Remington mansion
- Victor Corona as Anacleto - Worker at Remington factory, in love with Hortensia, then with Eulalia
- Carmen Olivares as Carmen - Friend of Hortensia
- Bernhard Seifert as Eduardo - Employee at Remington factory (Killed by Ricardo)
- Jose Ramon Blanch as Ricardo Solis - Lawyer, in love with Julia, villain
- Freddy Viques as Matias - Worker at Remington factory
- Mauricio OchmannMauricio OchmannMauricio Ochmann Siordia is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film Message in a Bottle, the TV series That's life and Latino Green. He appeared as Fabián Duque in Telemundo's Dame Chocolate...
as Fabián Duque - Photographer, in love with Rosita
Cast and Story Changes
When TelemundoTelemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
announced Dame Chocolate in May, 2006, the cast included Mauricio Ochmann
Mauricio Ochmann
Mauricio Ochmann Siordia is a Mexican actor best known for his roles in telenovelas. He also appeared in Kevin Costner's film Message in a Bottle, the TV series That's life and Latino Green. He appeared as Fabián Duque in Telemundo's Dame Chocolate...
as Bruce, Zharick Leon as Samantha and Erick Elías
Erick Elias
Erick Elías is a Mexican actor, model and singer.Erick Elias began his studies in acting, music, dance, and modeling at a very young age. He moved to Mexico City, soon after graduating from high school...
as Angel. All three performers moved to other Telemundo serials. Ochmann left for Marina
Marina (Telemundo TV series)
Marina is a Spanish-language telenovela that aired on United States-based television network Telemundo. It premièred on October 16, 2006. The final original episode aired Thursday, June 28, 2007 it is a remake of the Mexican María la del Barrio, María Mercedes and Los Ricos También Lloran.Sandra...
, Leon went to La Viuda de Blanco
La Viuda de Blanco
La Viuda de Blanco is a 1996 Colombian telenovela hit which starred Osvaldo Ríos, María Helena Doehring, Jorge Enrique Abello, and Yolandita Monge. Its remake, titled the same, premiered on July 24, 2006 on Telemundo. Both versions were produced by Telemundo Studios Miami...
and Elias joined Zorro: La Espada y La Rosa
Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa
Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa is a Spanish-language telenovela based on Johnston McCulley's characters. Telemundo aired it from February 12 to July 23, 2007. This limited-run serial shows the masked crusader as a hero torn between his fight for justice and his love for a beautiful woman...
. They were replaced by Carlos Ponce
Carlos Ponce
Carlos Armando Ponce, Jr. is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and television personality. Ponce began his acting career by participating in Spanish language soap operas for Televisa and Telemundo. Ponce continued to expand his acting career by participating in various American television...
, Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig is an actress, model and television host.-Early years:Karla Monroig was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, located on the southern coastal valley region of the island of Puerto Rico...
, and Khotan Fernández
Khotan Fernández
Khotan Fernández in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, is a Mexican actor sometimes simply known as Khotan.-Early life:...
. In addition, Venezuelan singer José Luis Rodríguez, father of star Génesis Rodríguez
Génesis Rodríguez
Génesis Rodríguez Pérez is an American actress of soap operas. She is best known for her roles in the Telemundo TV series Prisionera, Dame Chocolate and Doña Bárbara. She also played Becky Ferrer on Days of our Lives.- Biography :Génesis Rodríguez Pérez was born in July 29, 1987 in Miami, Florida...
was also announced as part of the cast, but did not appear.http://www.hispanicad.com/cgi-bin/news/newsarticle.cgi?article_id=19260
Along with cast changes, Telemundo also made a major story shift. Rosita was originally to love Angel Pérez, who was engaged to another woman. The story that aired portrayed Angel as a villainous murderer and sexual predator.http://www.nbcumarketplace.com/marketplace2/_broadcast/Telemundo/downloads/dame_chocolate-1.pdf
After leaving Marina
Marina (Telemundo TV series)
Marina is a Spanish-language telenovela that aired on United States-based television network Telemundo. It premièred on October 16, 2006. The final original episode aired Thursday, June 28, 2007 it is a remake of the Mexican María la del Barrio, María Mercedes and Los Ricos También Lloran.Sandra...
, Ochmann eventually rejoined the cast of Dame Chocolate. He took the role of Fabián Duque, a fashion photographer who falls for Rosita. His first air date was June 13, 2007.
Product Placement
TelemundoTelemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
made product placement
Product placement
Product placement, or embedded marketing, is a form of advertisement, where branded goods or services are placed in a context usually devoid of ads, such as movies, music videos, the story line of television shows, or news programs. The product placement is often not disclosed at the time that the...
deals with The Clorox Company, Ford
Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. In addition to the Ford and Lincoln brands, Ford also owns a small stake in Mazda in Japan and Aston Martin in the UK...
, IKEA
IKEA
IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...
, and other companies to promote their brands during the show. Clorox cleaning products can be seen throughout the Remington home, for example. These product placements are digitally altered to match the products available in each country airing the show.http://www.adweek.com/aw/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003661110
In addition, characters made excursions to Lowe's
Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a U.S.-based chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores. Founded in 1946 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the chain now serves more than 14 million customers a week in its 1,710 stores in the United States and 20 in Canada. Expansion into Canada began in...
, Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...
and Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida
Universal Studios Florida is an American theme park located in Orlando, Florida. Opened on June 7, 1990, the park's theme is the entertainment industry, in particular movies and television. Universal Studios Florida inspires its guests to "ride the movies," and it features numerous attractions and...
. Also, IKEA
IKEA
IKEA is a privately held, international home products company that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture such as beds and desks, appliances and home accessories. The company is the world's largest furniture retailer...
designed two bedroom sets for the show, "designed to reflect the culturally distinct style of two of the Latina characters." It displayed the furnishings in selected stores. The promotion also planned "program vignettes" during the broadcast, featuring actresses Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig
Karla Monroig is an actress, model and television host.-Early years:Karla Monroig was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico, located on the southern coastal valley region of the island of Puerto Rico...
and Kristina Lilley
Kristina Lilley
Kristina Lilley is an American-Colombian actress best known for numerous roles in Spanish-language soap operas. Recently, she has appeared in several telenovelas produced by Telemundo. Her latest TV series is Dame Chocolate.Lilley was born in New York, although her family moved to Colombia when...
.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070306000000-ikeapremieressetd.html
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. , branded as Walmart since 2008 and Wal-Mart before then, is an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000...
received a "featured role" on Dame Chocolate. Part of an episode was filmed at a supercenter in Hialeah, Florida Wal-Mart also agreed to do promotions in stores and online. The chain previously did a marketing deal for Watch Over Me
Watch Over Me
Watch Over Me is an American Television series that debuted on December 6, 2006 on the television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced 66 episodes to air weekdays. The limited-run serial is an adaptation of Argentine series Resistiré....
.http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070626006499&newsLang=en
Production notes
As with most of its other soap operas, TelemundoTelemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. Originally, it scheduled 120 installments and extended its run to 130 episodes.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070626006499&newsLang=en This show is also known as Sweet Secret.http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=74&article=34872 It is filmed in Miami and some scenes were shot on location on the Rickenbacker Causeway
Rickenbacker Causeway
The Rickenbacker Causeway connects Miami, Florida, United States to the barrier islands of Virginia Key and Key Biscayne across Biscayne Bay.-Background:...
.http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/070726/filming.shtml
The name Dame Chocolate is a bilingual pun. It means "give me chocolate" in Spanish. It also implies that Rosita fills the role of dame of chocolate, referring to the traditional English title of nobility. Génesis Rodríguez
Génesis Rodríguez
Génesis Rodríguez Pérez is an American actress of soap operas. She is best known for her roles in the Telemundo TV series Prisionera, Dame Chocolate and Doña Bárbara. She also played Becky Ferrer on Days of our Lives.- Biography :Génesis Rodríguez Pérez was born in July 29, 1987 in Miami, Florida...
was made less attractive with a false nose and teeth to play the innocent Rosita.
Ratings
TelemundoTelemundo
Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....
touted Dame Chocolate as a ratings success, with May 2007 sweeps ratings up 34 percent among Hispanic adults ages 18–34. The show also won its time slot among those viewers in New York and Miami.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070530000000-telemundo039shig.html The next month, Dames time slot (which included one soccer preemption) averaged 591,000 core adult viewers (ages 18 to 49), according to Nielsen Media Research.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070703000000-telemundo039spri.html?rss=1
Dame Chocolate in other media
Latin Lunch‘’Top Chef 3 Miami’’ shot the "Latin Lunch" episode (in English) on the Remington Mansion exterior set featuring Rodriguez and Lilley, along with Natallia Streignard of Las Brujas De South Beach
Las Brujas de South Beach
Las Brujas De South Beach is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo. It stars Natalia Streignard, Ana Lucía Domínguez, Jullye Giliberti as four alluring women who were sisters in a past life...
. Contestants were told to create an authentic Latin meal. The episode debuted on Bravo on July 18, 2007.http://nbcumv.com/telemundo/release_detail.nbc/telemundo-20070712000000-lasestrellasdetel.html?rss=1. One contestant mentions "Dame Chocolate" is "huge in Mexico", although it was never widely broadcast in that country.
External links
- Turkey Fan Site
- :tr:Dame chocolate Tatlı İntikam Türkçe
- Telemundo International Dame Chocolate page (English, requires FlashAdobe Flash PlayerThe Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other...
) - Telenovela World (bilingual)
- Official site (Spanish)
- Karla Monroig fan club