Quinceañera (1987 TV series)

Quinceañera (English title: Sweet 15) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Carla Estrada for Televisa in 1987. Quinceañera was the first telenovela to talk about substance abuse, date rape and gangs, and is considered to be the first telenovela made in Mexico for teenagers.

Quinceañera was named by the Associated Press as one of the 10 most influential telenovelas ever to air in Latin America, and Univision tlnovelas viewers named it one of their all-time favorite Mexican telenovelas. In 2010, Quinceañera was placed #7 on the People en Español's "20 Best Telenovelas" list, and in 2012, Terra named it as one of the 50 best telenovelas of all-time.

The telenovela stars Adela Noriega, Ernesto Laguardia, Thalía and Rafael Rojas.

Plot
Maricruz (Adela Noriega) and Beatriz (Thalía) are classmates and best friends. Maricruz is from a working-class family, while Beatriz's is very wealthy. They are both 14 and excited about their quinceañera parties and becoming women.

Mechanic's apprentice Pancho (Ernesto Laguardia) and gang tough Memo (Sebastian Ligarde) are attracted to Maricruz. Maricruz is immediately disgusted by Memo and eventually accepts Pancho's love. Memo attacks Maricruz; she faints before he can rape her, but he lets her believe he did rape her. She feels violated, defiled, and unworthy of Pancho and believes he won't want her now.

At the same time, Maricruz's brother Gerardo (Rafael Rojas) starts dating Beatriz when their mother pressures her children to raise their social class. When Beatriz becomes pregnant, her family supports her after their initial horror. Both girls realize that the passage to womanhood was not what they expected.

Main

 * Adela Noriega as Maricruz Fernández Sarcoser
 * Thalía as Beatriz Villanueva Contreras
 * Blanca Sánchez as Ana María Contreras de Villanueva
 * Jorge Lavat as Roberto Villanueva

Recurring

 * Armando Araiza as "El Chato"
 * Martha Aura as Gertrudis
 * Luis Bayardo as Ramón Fernández
 * Roberto Ballesteros as Antonio
 * Julieta Bracho as Mrs. Palmira
 * Silvia Caos as Consuelo
 * Fernando Ciangherotti as Sergio Iturralde Contreras
 * Julieta Egurrola as Carmen Sarcoser de Fernández
 * Ana Bertha Espín as Estela
 * Omar Fierro as Arturo
 * Gabriel as "El Chamo"
 * Enrique Gilabert as Mr. Villarreal
 * Alejandra Gollas as Adriana Fernández Sarcoser
 * Rosario Granados as Rosalía Vda. de Contreras
 * Ernesto Laguardia as Pancho
 * Sebastian Ligarde as Guillermo "Memo" López
 * Ricardo D'Loera as Lawyer Espinoza
 * Abraham Méndez as Ernesto
 * Alicia Montoya as Licha
 * Inés Morales as Elvira Contreras Vda. de Iturralde
 * Lucha Moreno as Virginia Campos
 * Pancho Muller as Andrés "Toluco" López
 * René Muñoz as Timoteo "Timo"
 * Nailea Norvind as Leonor Gutiérrez
 * Rafael Rojas as Gerardo Fernández Sarcoser
 * Margarita Sanz as Eduviges Sarcoser
 * Maricarmen Vela as Enriqueta Solórzano

Track listing

 * Timbiriche – "Quinceañera (instrumental)"
 * Pandora – "Ella Se Llenó de Amor"
 * Bryan Adams – "Native Son"
 * Vangelis – "To the Unknown Man"
 * Manuel Mijares – "El Rey de la Noche (instrumental)"
 * Miguel Mateos – "Cuando Seas Grande"
 * Michael Jackson – "Bad"
 * Luis Miguel – "Cuando calienta el sol (instrumental)"
 * Stevie Wonder – "I Just Called to Say I Love You (instrumental)"
 * Pink Floyd – "Terminal Frost (instrumental)"
 * Pandora – "Tu Cariño"
 * Miguel Mateos – "Cuando Seas Grande"
 * W.A.S.P. - "Wild Child"

Other versions

 * Televisa made a remake of Quinceañera named Primer amor, a mil por hora in 2000, starring Anahí and Ana Layevska and a second remake, Miss XV, in 2012, starring Paulina Goto and Natasha Dupeyrón.