Muchachitas
Encyclopedia
Muchachitas is a Mexican
telenovela
. It was produced for Televisa
by Emilio Larrosa
, who also wrote the script during 1991 and 1992. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión
in the early 1990s, and featured young up-and-coming actors who later became stars.
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...
telenovela
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"...
. It was produced for Televisa
Televisa
Televisa is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate, the largest mass media company in Latin America and in the Spanish-speaking world. It is a major international entertainment business, with much of its programming airing in the United States on Univision, with which it has an exclusive contract...
by Emilio Larrosa
Emilio Larrosa
Emilio Larrosa is a TV producer who has produced telenovelas and soap operas for Televisa.Larrosa produced the telenovella Hasta que el dinero nos separe, broadcast in 2009, and in In 2010, the telenovela Dos Hogares - an original mystery story about the relationship of two people, both broadcast...
, who also wrote the script during 1991 and 1992. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión
Univision
Univision is a Spanish-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of Spanish language television viewers according to Nielsen ratings. Randy Falco, COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of Univision Communications president and CEO Joe Uva...
in the early 1990s, and featured young up-and-coming actors who later became stars.
Full cast
- Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica Sánchez Zúñiga
- Tiaré Scanda as Elena Olivares Cervantes
- Kate del CastilloKate del CastilloKate del Castillo is a leading Mexican film, theater, and television actress.- Early life :Kate Del Castillo is the daughter of Kate Trillo and Eric del Castillo, a legend of the Mexican cinema's golden era and a former soap opera actor himself...
as Leticia Bustamante Ortega - Emma Laura as Isabel Flores Santos
- Jorge LavatJorge LavatJorge Lavat Bayona was a Mexican film and television actor born in Mexico City, Mexico. He appeared in more than 25 serialized telenovelas over the decades between 1958 and 2001 including his participation in Senda Prohibida, the first telenovela ever produced in Mexico...
as Guillermo Sanchez Zuniga - Alejandro Camacho as Federico Cantú
- Laura LeónLaura LeónRebeca Valderrama , better known by her stage name Laura León, is a Mexican actress and singer. She is often referred to as "La Tesorito" since that is a term of endearment she uses for people. León resided for many years in Mexico City where she starred in several telenovelas for Televisa...
as Esther Cervantes - Pilar PellicerPilar PellicerPilar Pellicer López de Llergo is a Mexican film actress, daughter of César Pellicer Sánchez and Pilar López de Llergo and sister of the actress Pina Pellicer.- Filmography :* Nazarín * Quinceañera...
as Martha - Roberto PalazuelosRoberto PalazuelosRoberto Palazuelos Badeaux , better known as Roberto Palazuelos, is a Mexican actor best known for his work in telenovelas.-Biography:...
as Roger - María RojoMaría RojoMaría de Lourdes Rojo e Incháustegui commonly known as María Rojo — — is a Mexican actress and politician. She is currently Senator of the Republic in the upper house of Mexican Congress....
as Esperanza Fernandez - Diego SchoeningDiego SchoeningDiego Schoening , is a Mexicann singer, actor and television host.Diego Schoening started his career in the band Timbiriche in 1981, where he remained until its disbanding in 1994...
as Rodrigo - Carlos Cardán as Pepe
- Sergio KleinerSergio KleinerSergio Kleiner is an Argentine actor of soap operas and the cinema of Mexico.He started his acting career at the age of 21 at a play in Buenos Aires...
as Alberto - Gabriela Araujo as Profesora Márquez
- Edith Kleiman as Angelica
- Antonio Medellín as Alfredo
- Manolita SavalManolita SavalManolita Saval was an actress and singer. She was born on February 5, 1914 in Paris of Spanish parents and died on August 23, 2001 in Mexico City.She was the mother of the actor Manuel Saval...
- Armando de Pascual
- Charlie MassóCharlie MassoCarlos Javier Rivera Masso is a former member of Menudo who joined the band at the height of Menudo's world wide fame. He replaced Rene Farrait and quickly became a fan favorite with his participation on the albums of Es Por Amor and Vamos A Volar, which was the soundtrack of Charlie's first...
as Mauricio - Mercedes Pascualas Bertha
- Mario Sauret as Don Julio
- Ari TelchAri TelchAri Telch is an award-winning Mexican actor best known for his work in telenovelas and the stage.-Early life and career:...
as Joaquín - Arturo Alegro as Pancho
- Kenia Gazcón as Margarita
- Lorena HerreraLorena HerreraLorena Herrera is a Mexican actress.- Biography :Lorena moved with her family to Mexico City, where she began a career as a fashion model. She became highly successful in Mexico, and gained an international reputation, posing for advertiments in Mexico and South America...
as Claudia - Carlos Rotzinger as Luis Villasenor
- Tere Salinas as Paola
- José Flores as Rolando
- Raúl Alberto as Raúl
- Sergio Sendel as Pedro
- Ana María Aguirre as Constanza
- Anahí as Betty
- Edmundo Barahona
- Itatí CantoralItatí CantoralItatí Cantoral, is a Mexican actress.-Early life and education:Cantoral is the daughter of Mexican composer and songwriter, Roberto Cantoral, and Argentine actress of Italian descent, Itatí Zucchi.A child actress, at 13, Cantoral was accepted into the Televisa actors' academy, Centro de Educación...
as Lucía - Susana Carens
- July FurlongJuly FurlongNorma Ojeda Furlong is a writer, journalist and former Mexican actress and singer.Sister of the singer Oscar Athie, she started her career in 1968 in the Mexican T.V show La hora de Raúl Astor. Her first role in a telenovela was in 1973...
(1991–1992) and Tina RomeroTina RomeroTina Romero is a Mexican film, television and stage actress, made famous by starring the film Alucarda in 1978.-Early life:Tina Romero Alcazár was born on August 14, 1949, in New York City. She is a daughter of Mexican parents and her family relocated to Mexico in 1958 where she developed her...
(1992) as Verónica - Amparo Garrido
- Miguel Garza
- Carlos Miguel as Oscar
- Evelyn Murillo
- Guillermo Orea Jr.
- Fernando Pinkus
- Héctor SoberónHéctor SoberónHéctor Soberón Lorenzo , better known as Héctor Soberón, is a Mexican actor.-Acting career:...
as Víctor - Lorena Tassinari as Lorena
- Patricia Valdés
- Yolanda VenturaYolanda VenturaYolanda Ventura is a Spanish actress and singer. She is best known for roles in Mexican telenovelas and is a former member of the Spanish pop band Parchís. She is the daughter of Spanish musician Rudi Ventura and wife of Mexican actor Alejandro Aragón...
as Gloria
Crew
- Alfredo Gurrola, director
- Emilio Larrosa original script
- Emilio Larrosa adaptation and script
- Alejandro Pohlenz, Verónica Suárez, script
- Lorena Tassinari, original music
- Antonio Acevedo, cinematography
Plot
Four girls (Mónica, Elena, Leticia and Isabel) join an art academy pursuing their dreams of a career in acting and singing. These four girls are of different backgrounds:- Monica is wealthy but humble and sweet. She dates Rodrigo, who works under her father at their supermarket and drives a taxi on the side. When Rodrigo is framed by Monica's cousin Federico and sent to jail for industrial espionage, she stands by him, but she cannot forget about her previous boyfriend Roger, who was also victim of an attempted murder by Federico.
- Elena is poor and tough. She was Rodrigo's first girlfriend but Rodrigo dumped her for Monica, causing a rift between the two girls. Later, however, it is revealed that Elena's father was also Monica's biological father; their respective mothers had also been active in theater and had also been friends and rivals.
- Isabel is middle-class and very selfless. She lives with her widowed father. She gets involved with Pedro, who turns out to be married, but though Pedro's terminally-ill wife forgives her and entrusts her the care of their daughter Betty, she distrusts Pedro.
- Leticia is also middle-class but a social climber who is not hesitant to speak her mind and to pretend to get on with rich men. She eventually "marries" Federico, not realizing that the wedding had no legal value (because the form had not been filled with the police station), and later is sent to work under her grandmother, who was also once a social climber but has mellowed and become wiser.
The Guys
- Federico Cantu, a cousin of Monica's who also works for Monica's father, is secretly plotting to take over the company and will not hesitate to kill anyone to achieve power. He frames Rodrigo for industrial espionage that hands a TV ad campaign worked on by Rodrigo and Monica's father to a rival entrepreneur whose daughter Federico had been dating; he then briefly gets involved with Leticia, who loves him, and stages a wedding with no legal value.
- Rodrigo is Monica's second boyfriend, he works at her father's supermarket in management and drives a taxi on the side.
- Roger Guzman was Monica's first boyfriend but she dumped him for Rodrigo, because Roger wanted her to be a housewife and mother when she wanted an acting career. He also worked under her father. A falling out with Federico led to Federico attempting to murder him by blowing him up in his car (he survived, however, and later confronted
- Joaquin is one of the instructors at the art academy, teaching dance. He has a soft spot for Leticia, though he despises her attitude, but is always supportive of the girls.
External links
- Muchachitas at the Telenovela Database.
- Muchachitas at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
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