Colorina (1980)

Genre

telenovela

Country

Mexico

Length

1 season, 250 episodes

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young redheaded cabaret dancer and prostitute falls in love with a wealthy man, but faces harsh judgment from his family and society. The story follows her struggle to escape her past and find acceptance. This Mexican telenovela stirred controversy for its protagonist's profession and aired in a late time slot before returning to prime time due to high ratings.

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What happens

Colorina (English title: Redhead) is a Mexican telenovela produced by Valentín Pimstein for Televisa in 1980. It was a remake of La Colorina, while remakes of Colorina are Apasionada and Salomé. Lucía Méndez and Enrique Álvarez Félix starred as protagonists, while José Alonso and María Teresa Rivas starred as antagonists. María Rubio, Julissa and Armando Calvo co-starred in secondary performances. This telenovela is well remembered for its daring move to feature a cabaret dancer/prostitute as the protagonist, a decision that would lead to Televisa being forced by then-president, José López Portillo under the wishes of his mother to classify it a C rating, moving it to the 11:00 pm time slot & changing the channel in which it was shown in seeing it as "improper" to feature a prostitute as the main character on prime time television. The huge ratings success of the telenovela however, and the fact that Lucia Mendez's character doesn't remain a prostitute for long allowed for Colorina to return to Canal 2 and its original timeslot. [1] [2] (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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