- Rubi steals the fiancé from her millionaire friend Maribel, leaves her city and gets married in New York. Before getting on the airplane, the sister curses her and slaps her. Rubi drives crazy her gallant Cesar in the alcoves that spill sensuality and champagne. Her husband, who is an architect, has an accident on a construction, and because of the decollate of Rubi! He is left disabled. Without money, the couple returns to Mexico city to face an old friend: doctor Alejandro del Valle. Rubi always liked him, but at that time he was poor. Now that he has money and still looks sexy, she waits for him in her apartment... Sexy, sexy, sexy! Doctor Alejandro is in charge of the operation of the husband of Rubi and fails when thinking about her, and how she says to him: "Kill him!" At the end, the doctor tries to strangle her, she flees from his claws and falls of the seventh floor of the Regis Hotel, where for months she didn't pay for her room... She is laying destroyed on the pavement! Rubi is taken to a hospital. She invents a new lie: she blames the doctor for the accident. This lie is only a pretext to see him again. Dying, she asks Alejandro to take of the bandages. She looks like a real monster and asks pardon for playing with the men.—Hector Pina
- Rubi (1969) is a story based on the novel by Yolanda Vargas Dulche featured in "Lagrimas y risas" magazine in Mexico in the 1960s. It had previously been adapted for a soap opera (telenovela) in 1968 with Fanny Cano in the lead role. For the movie, however they casted the Spanish actress Iran Eory, which was a good actress but had a strong accent and voice had to be doubted by Mexican actress Norma Lazareno. Rubi is the story of a beautiful woman, as stunningly beautiful as she was evil. Rubi possess a unique beauty that astonish people around her, but she has always grown up with the trauma of poverty and hatred for those she considers inferior. Rubi is ambitious, frivolous and cold hearted. She becomes friends with Maribel, a kind rich girl who has a limp and has a defect in one of her legs. She never recognizes Rubi's incredible envy towards her social status and wealth she and introduces her penpal millionaire boyfriend Cesar to her. Cesar arrives from New York city in company of Alejandro, a friend from college an a promising, yet poor graduate doctor. Alejandro and Rubi seem to have an instant connection when they meet, but suddenly it all vanishes when Rubi acknowledges the not so wealthy situation of Alejandro, and Alejandro acknowledges Rubi's ambition and bad feelings against her friend Maribel. Rubi starts to flirt with Cesar very boldly and he gets bedazzled by her elegance and beauty. Alejandro tries to stop the game in every opportunity he has, and Rubi hates him for that. He even stops Rubi for trying to kill Maribel with a horse and make it look like an accident...but his efforts are in vain as Cesar falls in Rubi's trap and abandon his wedding plans with Maribel, Alejandro tries to stop it, but Cesar believes Rubi's lie when she says Alejandro had tried to abuse her and he punches Alejandro in the face, kicking him out of his office, and out of his life. Rubi runs away from home abandoning her sister and her sick mother in order to escape and marry Cesar in Puerto Rico. The heart break eventually costs her mother's death. Maribel is hearbroken when she discovers the treason, and gets down in a terrible depresion. Rubi seems to bring pain and suffering to everyone around her... In the meantime, Cesar spends all his money on Rubi in Puerto Rico, as she hosts extravangant parties and gambles his properties in the casino and loses it all. On top of that, she refuses to give him a son and he gets dissapointed One day, while working as an engineer in his new project, Cesar suffers a terrible accident that confines him to a wheelchair. Rubi rarely visits him in the hospital as she embarks on an extramarital affair in order to get fun and money...Cesar's torment continues as he fears he could lose his beloved Rubi anytime... Due to bankrupcy, Cesar and Rubi are forced to return to Mexico and face the reality of their treason. Cesar is despised by his family and there is only one person who is able to perform the operation he needs in order to heal..and that is his friend Alejandro! Although he refuses at first, he agrees to operate Cesar at a very low cost... With visiting her husband in the hospital as an excuse, Rubi starts to appear more and more often in Alejandro's office and starts taking great interest in the handsome young doctor. He resist her frequent provocations the best he can, but he also has developped a strange obsession towards her. One night, she appear in his apartment and it finally happens. Rubi and Alejandro start a tormentous affair, that provokes great guilty in the doctor and make him unattend his professional duties. Rubi has become his only interest. Cesar becomes more and more impatient about his upcoming operation, and Alejandro agrees to perform it, because that would also mean the end of this love-hate obsessive passion he has developped with Rubi. When he informs her that he is gonna operate Cesar the following day, Rubi panicks as she has fallen deeply in love with Alejandro. She suggests him the possibility of killing Cesar as a mean of them to be together at last. Alejandro gets horrified by her proposal and can't help trying to choke her...the day of the operation Rubi tells Cesar that she is in love with another man,Alejandro and she's gonna divorce him after the operation. This shatters Cesar's mood and kills his desire for living. As he's being operated by his love rival, Cesar does not want to live and Alejandro gets distubed by constants thoughts about Rubi and their story together as well as her horrible proposal. At the end Cesar dies, and when Alejandro tells Rubi about it, she gets glad! But he starts blaming her for the whole thing and she finally accuses him of killing her husband, in a desperation Alejandro tries to kill Rubi choking her with his hand, and as she tries to escape, she trips over a telephone cable and falls out of the window in a third story building. Alejandro is mortified as he is being comforted by his nurse Eloisa, who has always been in love with him, when the police go and get him. Rubi has accused him of pushing her out of the window! Rubi has destroyed everybody around her, and when Alejandro goes and visits her in the hospital he finds that she is destroyed herself, with her face, covered in bandages, horribly desfigured, her infamous beauty is gone... But she denies the charges against him as she only wanted to see him again, once more, before she dies. She apologises for all the bad things that she did, as she did in fact loved him since the first time they met, but her ambitious plans were greater than anything else and she just wants to be forgiven... After forgiving Rubi and leaving the hospital, Alejandro is awaited by lovely Eloisa, as they walk together in the deep of the night, in hopes of starting a brand new life...
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