Muchachitas (English title: Girls) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Emilio Larrosa for Televisa in 1991. The telenovela was also shown on Univisión in the early 1990s. The lead roles are played by Cecilia Tijerina, Tiaré Scanda, Emma Laura, Kate del Castillo, Tere Salinas, Yolanda Ventura and Itatí Cantoral. Diego Schoening, Raúl Alberto, Roberto Palazuelos, José Flores, Ari Telch and Charlie Massó also star, along with Alejandro Camacho, Pilar Pellicer, Karen Sentíes, Kenia Gazcón, Lorena Herrera, Carlos Rotzinger, Carlos Miguel, and Carlos Cardán . Plot Four girls (Mónica, Elena, Leticia and Isabel) enroll in an art academy to pursue their dreams of careers in acting and singing. The four are from 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 her previous boyfriend Roger, who was also the object of 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 is also Monica's biological father; their respective mothers, also active in theater, had been friends and rivals. Isabel is middle-class and 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 with the care of their daughter, Betty, she distrusts Pedro. Leticia is a middle-class 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 has no legal effect (the license was not properly filed). She is later sent to work for her grandmother, who was also once a social climber but has mellowed and grown wiser. Cast Cecilia Tijerina as Mónica Sánchez-Zúñiga Montealegre Tiaré Scanda as Elena Olivares Pérez Kate del Castillo as Leticia Bustamante Ballesteros Emma Laura as Isabel Flores Falcón Jorge Lavat as Guillermo Sánchez-Zúñiga Alejandro Camacho as Federico Cantú Sánchez-Zúñiga Laura León as Esther Pérez de Olivares Pilar Pellicer as Martha Sánchez-Zúñiga Vda. de Cantú Roberto Palazuelos as Roger Guzmán María Rojo as Esperanza Ballesteros de Bustamante July Furlong as Verónica Montealegre de