Anyone can read what you share. Without stunts or theatrics, Death of a Porn Queen delivers a powerful message about the environment of drugs and exhibitionist sex that attracted, briefly enriched and ultimately destroyed Applegate, as gossip about her careening life shocked and titillated the folks back home. It is also about children and parents, small-town life and the lure of bright lights in the big city. It's not quite that simple in the movie. She never fully emerges from her silhouette, remaining in death as she was in life, enigmatic and very, very sad. All in all this movie is well made because it shows the family background of Pauleen and the psychological tensions and the reason why she leaves her family whereas she is young and beautiful and innocent and the slow but sad destitution of her image and life.It ends with a shooting and we learn that Pauleen killed herself with a long trifle. There are no answers. I give this an 8 out of 10. The second best result is Colleen Applegate age 60s in Creston, CA. A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. For people out there who think that its exploiting her and exploiting ourselves, then they should be very grateful because then they cant relate to it. When Applegate was barred from a Minnesota friend`s wedding because of her new career, it hurt her deeply. The movie portrayed them as real straightlaced simpletons, incapable or unwilling to deal with anything outside their "small town" existence. This porn does not excite, it disturbs. Reviews There are no reviews yet. **SPOILERS** Surprisingly good made for TV movie about the short life and violent death of Colleen Applegate who was known by her many fans as porno film star Shauna Grant. Join Facebook to connect with Colleen Applegate and others you may know. The glimpse of the workings of the pornography business, however, is revealing, if not pretty. Born Colleen Marie Applegate, she was sometimes credited as Callie Aimes, Callie Aims, or Colleen Applegate. She shot herself. Mel Erman: You think you're talking to some farmer on the back forty? She was an actress. The true story of Colleen Applegate/Shauna Grant arturopanduro 1 April 2000 This biopic shows us the tragic story of Colleen Applegate, who at a very young age moved to Hollywood from the midwest and became porn star Shauna Grant. Jonna Lee was pretty good in this role. We see the frank-talking man who runs the agency explaining to a new applicant that she will be expected to pose in the nude and, if she doesn't object, in ''simulations,'' pretending to be engaged in sexual activities. Her parents offered to pay for her college expenses, but she believed she would no longer be comfortable at home in Minnesota. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. The agent was as good as his word, and Miss Applegate made a hit with photographers for girlie magazines. Brain dead, Grant was rushed to Desert Hospital, where life support systems were disconnected after two days. Heres what to know, From Chris Rock to the SAG Awards. In the Frontline documentary, Marcell refused to speak about his relationship with Applegate, except to say that he no longer cared about her.[6]. Shauna Grant. The shot passed through her right temple, out the left, and into the bedroom wall, according to police reports. By what name was Shattered Innocence (1988) officially released in Canada in English? This Lorimar TV flick must have been ahead of its time in 1988, as the story of 17-year-old Pauleen Anderson, who, wanting to grow up faster than she knows how, leaves home and becomes in turn a centerfold, a porn star, a cocaine abuser and finally a suicide when things go wrong. [10], Grant persuaded her friend, veteran porn performer Kelly Nichols, to take over the role Grant had been offered in Matinee Idol. Grant and Smith had partied and slept in the days following the awards show and lost track of time. The rise to fame, decline and suicide of Colleen Applegate - who was 20 when she put a rifle to her head and pulled the trigger on March 21, 1984 - are the subject of Shattered Innocence, a CBS-TV movie being broadcast tonight. I wonder what happened to her. Born in Southern California but grew up in Minnesota. ), PBS Video., WGBH Educational Foundation., WCCO-TV (Television station : Minneapolis, Minn.), Documentary Consortium. We later meet her manager, Bobby Hollander, and her cocaine-dealing boyfriend, Jake Erlich, who was in jail and trying to dump her when Applegate killed herself. Grant was buried in her favorite color, pink. (*SPOILERS*)Those are lines repeated more than once by (the superb) Melinda Dillon, who plays the mother of a young girl (Jonna Lee, as Paulina Anderson) who falls into a devastating life of drug addiction and pornography, which leads to her self-induced death. 11. Scenes such as the one where Shauna goes back home for Christmas, proudly showing off a scrapbook of nude photos to her family and then getting rebuffed by her appalled mother, are both tender and sad, and Shauna's fight to reclaim her life at the finale is quite gripping. Colleen Applegate's high school yearbook was one of a very few personal possessions she kept with her. I dont know, her mother said Tuesday. Mr. Austin is given to observations about Colleen being ''lost,'' ''unprepared'' and so forth. ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I've seen this movie in italian,as I do live in Italy. It is really a sad and moving story, well directed and acted. She left her small-town home of Farmington, Minn., at age 18 to chase a dream in Hollywood. Her personal possessions left behind could fit in a large envelope. No matter how many times I see this film I'm moved by the way it unfolds relentlessly toward its inevitable tragic end. Can't take your eyes off of it, even though I know the people in the porn business saw a young beautiful woman mostly likely lied to her and worse, but either than that awesome characters, The true story of Colleen Applegate/Shauna Grant, A Family treated TV bio-pic "flavor of the moment", Shauna Grant, Based on the life and death of Colleen Applegate. Colleen graduated from Farmington High School in 1981, where she had been a cheerleader. And why? On March 21st 1984, Grant committed suicide at the age of twenty in Palm Springs by shooting herself with a . Though the names have been changed, it is her story. on October 27, 2019. Los Angeles, Randall Emmett, Ambyr Childers settle domestic violence restraining order dispute, Column: Supreme Court conservatives may want to block student loan forgiveness. He even tracked down some of her belongings she had left behind when she changed identities. Segment from the television program Frontline, Closed captioned for the hearing impaired, There are no reviews yet. As a fast-rising adult entertainment personality, she was featured in Virginia, Suzie Superstar, and Flesh and Laces 1 & 2, among many other films. My first thoughts upon seeing this film 14 years ago, on TV, were with regards to the level of difficulty, and subsequent success, that the producers/director must have had in making a movie about pornography without the ability to use nudity, coarse language or explicit scenes and situations that make up the core of a pornographic film. Colleen Marie Applegate, known professionally as Shauna Grant (May 30, 1963 - March 23, 1984), was an American pornographic actress and nude model. The real "Pauline" (a.k.a. theyre just immature and irresponsible and they think they can come to Hollywood and become a star overnight or theyll just find something.. Was college a worse alternative than becoming a strung out porn star?? Many liberties were taken with the characters in "Shattered Innocence" but it remains fairly true to actual events/people. According to a PBS Frontline documentary, the entire Applegate family had at least one group session at a counseling center during which no one really talked about the situation.[4]. Warmer storms could cause problems, Dramatic before and after photos from space show epic snow blanketing SoCal mountains, Gloria Vanderbilt told Anderson Cooper not to expect a trust fund. I recommend this TV movie to anyone who enjoys a tragic real life story. The Applegates - Colleen had three younger sisters and one younger brother - cooperated with the producers in hopes that the movie might prevent similar tragedies, said Applegate, who is portrayed by actress Melinda Dillon. Rumor had it that Shauna Grants family weren't too pleased about the movie.despite the fact that they co-operated and were compensated by the production company. Copyright 2012-2020 Stories People All rights reserved, Adult filmmaker Roberta Findlay made the controversial, Grants career and death were fictionalized as the basis for the television movie, The musician Klaus Flouride honored Grant in the song "Dancing with Shauna Grant" from his album, American death metal band Ripping Corpse wrote a song for their album, Christian metal band Mastedon wrote a song "Innocent Girl" in memory of Shauna Grant on their debut album. The short, tragic odyssey of Colleen Applegate, who left Minnesota at 18, became porn star Shauna Grant, and killed herself at age 20. The young woman whose innocence is shattered is based on real-life porn-star Shauna Grant. Though the names have been changed, it is her story. Smith, who co-starred with Grant in several movies (including Suzie Superstar, The Young Like It Hot, and Bad Girls IV), also became Grant's best friend and fellow cocaine user during that period. John Pleshette is also good as the older man who's finally found the centerfold girlfriend he's wanted all his life, only to lose her to his own tragic flaw - being a cocaine dealer headed for prison. Marcell then saw an ad for the World Modeling Agency in Van Nuys, which sought recruits for "figure modeling". I found it hard to believe that Jonna Lee's character of Pauline couldn't find a liveable wage job outside of the world of nude modeling and eventually porn. . The one-hour documentary is the story of Colleen Applegate, a fresh-scrubbed girl with the peaches-and-cream country look, who perhaps is better known as Shauna Grant, porn queen. Coleen's age is 75. She ran away from her small town in Minnesota and proceeded to appear in over 30 pornographic films, earning up to $100,000 in her two-year career. I agree with the comments above about this film. Simply, movingly, effectively and unsensationally, this 60-minute production from WCCO-TV in Minneapolis retraces the route of a wholesome ex-cheerleader from her tiny hometown of Farmington, Minn., to the sewers of Hollywood porn films and cocaine addiction, a route that led ultimately to her suicide in the Palm Springs home of her 44-year-old lover. Her lover, distressed by her disorderly habits, made it clear that she would have to leave his apartment. In 1982 she ran away from home and moved to California where she soon got involved in making adult films under the stage name Shauna Grant. 1 videocassette (58 min.) Search the history of over 797 billion ''I photograph women in an attempt to bring beauty out of their bodies,'' says one of them, who then tells of his concern over the perils facing kids in women's bodies. The film is well-acted, especially by Melinda Dillon, who plays the girl's mother. Mel Erman: [nods disapprovingly] I'm closing the cupboard. [7][8], On March 14, 1984, she was a multiple nominee and presenter (with John Leslie) at the 8th Annual Adult Film Association Awards show at the Coconut Grove Ambassador Hotel. Shattered Innocence depicts a high school cheerleader who is bored and restless with her life in Banning, Kan., and after graduation heads for the bright lights and glitter of Hollywood. I think the producers and writers try to take aim at the pornography industry for the sleazy business it is, but this girl's impatience with life and desire to "have it all" the fast and easy way seem just as much to blame for what happened to her. They try to intervene but she wants the family to love her on her terms, not theirs, Ocamb said. There are many out there who can relate to it, and those are the ones I hope it helps., Connect with the definitive source for global and local news. The producers originally had a dramatization closer to the gritty details, but it had to be softened because of prime-time television, production representative Karen Ocamb said in a telephone interview from Los Angeles. At the time of Grants death, two people were playing pool in Ehrlichs house: Brenda Rosenow, a friend of Colleens, and Cal Ardigo, a friend of Ehrlichs. His advice was not taken. It is known that Grant had received threatening phone calls related to Ehrlichs business affairs. Her journey. While her desire to act in mainstream films had generated no offers, she was so prestigious at the time that famed director Francis Ford Coppola was seated at her table. 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