[citation needed], On March 23, 1984, Grant died by suicide in Palm Springs by shooting herself with an AR-15 style .22 caliber rifle.[11]. 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. This is a movie that could have been tawdry and exploitative, and indeed, I recall reading that the parents of Colleen Applegate (whose life this is loosely based on) were displeased with it, saying it made the pornographers look like they were just running a business and Colleen got into trouble on her own. They change. Ratterfat McWhiskers While London acted as a consultant on the film, producers changed Applegate's name to "Pauline Anderson" and fictionalized other aspects of her life at her parents' request. Brain dead, Grant was rushed to Desert Hospital, where life support systems were disconnected after two days. Much more interesting is the description of the route by which good-looking young women make their way in the porn game. Colleen was the first child born to Phil and Karen Applegate in 1963. Colleen Marie Applegate, known professionally asShauna Grant (May 30, 1963 - March 23, 1984), was an American pornographic actress and nude model. All the acting is solid and Sandor Stern's direction is both careful and easy. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. The film doesn't have the theatrical style of something like "Star 80", but it's actually a much better film. As we know, they wind up on the streets, Ocamb said. While the name and hometown have been changed, the film depicts the final years of Colleen Applegate, who left her Farmington home in March 1982, posed nude for magazine photos and soon became porn movie star Shauna Grant. The program keeps insisting there's a lesson of some sort here, but it can't quite figure out what it is, other than that 18-year-olds who run away to Hollywood and answer advertisements for models are asking for trouble. on the Internet. 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. . The film starts in 1981, but Lee's attire is pretty much late 80s stuff (torn, tight Guess jeans), and the soundtrack is right out of the 1970s (Fleetwood Mac, Frampton). An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Colleen Applegate is on Facebook. Everyday that we insist on fragmenting ourselves we ensure that we will continue to produce this type of individual. 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. In one high-profile 1984 case, a porn actress named Colleen Applegate, who grew up in Farmington, Minnesota, killed herself after a battle with drugs at age 20. . So,I was desperately trying to trace the title in english and well, thanks to imdb I've finally found it!This story really moved me, I was so sad thinking about this girl who tries to gain success and. With Jonna Lee, Melinda Dillon, John Pleshette, Kris Kamm. 26 Views . Heres what to know, From Chris Rock to the SAG Awards. "You know, you take a typical girl that's used to working at McDonald's or at a shoe store, where she's used to making a minimum wage, and suddenly she's given the opportunity to get made up, and be in front of people who tell her she's beautiful, and make as much money in a day as she was making in three weeks and, um, they change. But they assume no responsibility for her death, and they continue to exploit the Colleen Applegates of tomorrow. Her name and hometown were changed in the film, but her mother said: The whole mess is true. It was kind of hard to feel sorry for her. Joanna Lee plays the part of Pamela Lee, a porn actress who killed herself at the age of 20 after heavy cocaine addiction with her young life filled with misfortunes. That is no small feat in itself. The young woman whose innocence is shattered is based on real-life porn-star Shauna Grant. [citation needed] She was buried at the Saint Michaels Catholic Cemetery in Farmington. Add to that the morbid nature of the entire storyline; the rapid decline of a young life through the aforementioned vices (which is based on a true story), and being made specifically for television audiences, and I am surprised that this film got made at all. And why? All in all, I would rate it a 3*** out of 5. 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. H.264 IA . (785) 332-2892 is the phone number for Coleen. When mother Melinda Dillon discovers this, she is repulsed, even more so when Lee returns home for Christmas, boasting about her real work, of course leaving out the fact that she is doing drugs. She made 30 features and did numerous shorts and photo-shoots over just a year in the . After arriving in Los Angeles, Applegate and Marcell unsuccessfully pursued several employment leads. In the light of porn-glamourizing films such as "Boogie Nights", this tepidness accentuates the intent of "Shattered Innocence". Preliminary investigations by Palm Springs police posed questions regarding the circumstances surrounding Grants death. I saw this on the True Romance channel today and thought it was not bad at all, typical of the Made-for-TV movies of the 80s. She retired from adult films in 1983. Mel Erman: [nods disapprovingly] I'm closing the cupboard. She quit the adult film business for a short time following Grant's suicide. Los Angeles, Randall Emmett, Ambyr Childers settle domestic violence restraining order dispute, Column: Supreme Court conservatives may want to block student loan forgiveness. And if PBS ever wanted to attract more than the upper crust, the ''cultured'' or the snobs, then one way to do it would be with sex, or the promise of such. In June 1990, Applegate's mother Karen Applegate appeared on the tabloid news show Hard Copy (1987) where she disputed the official ruling (she would later appear Entertainment Tonight (1981) echoing the same sentiment). Mel Erman: And do what, go back to pornos? I also might mention that admirers of the big-screen films "Star 80", "Hardcore" or "Boogie Nights" (in particular, the comparison between the Adult Film Awards ceremony in Shattered Innocence and Boogie Nights is interesting) might like this film, or vice versa 7/10 Sad, but worthwhile watching. And the various settings and decor reveal both a rural Kansas home-spun comfort and the Hollywood Californian high-life of excess. The stars get the grief. 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. Dazzled by the quick money to be made in nude modeling, up to $2,000 a session for national magazines, she soon went for even bigger purses offered by porn films. The question worried on tonight's ''Frontline'' offering, on Channel 13 at 10 o'clock, is how a nice girl like Colleen Applegate could have been transformed into Shauna Grant, star of ''Flesh and Lace,'' and why she should have committed suicide. Her parents and friends seem perplexed, and the answers ventured by the narrator, Al Austin, who produced the program along with Mike Sullivan and Andy Greenspan, sound as though they were cribbed from teen-age how-not-to books. Do it. "Shattered Innocence", loosely based on the short life of porn star Shauna Grant, tells the story of a girl from the midwest who moves to California, gets into drugs and porn, and commits suicide. 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. 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. We know that Roger Applegate also lived at this address, perhaps within a different time frame. She is shown with high school pal Kris Kamm going in and out of various businesses and constantly turned down. ", Christian Congregations (Christians Only). 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]. She was 20-years old. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. I keep coming back to this film, some 17 years after I first saw it, for the script, the cast, the acting and even the background music. There, one night in December that year, she consumed a handful of prescription sinus pills in a suicide gesture. [citation needed]), Her first pictorial's theme featured a mock camping set and was published by Club. Edit your search or learn more. Back home, Applegate`s parents were aghast, and they flew to Los Angeles to find her. TV movies have a lack of fluidity of camerawork and lack of showmanship as is the case with "Shattered Innocence". Even the touching opening and closing theme music strikes home. A scar strip, Thank you for asking, she says, Hoda Kotbs enigmatic Today absence finally explained on air: Hodas OK, The chance of a lifetime: Five friends ski the tallest mountain in Los Angeles, Best coffee city in the world? 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Tastefully, with humanity, and completely free of exploitation. '', Hicks, who does not consider himself an opportunist, advised Applegate. The short, tragic odyssey of Colleen Applegate, who left Minnesota at 18, became porn star Shauna Grant, and killed herself at age 20. . The period fashion (early 80's) is dated (and seems especially funny- looking today, in 2002) but absolutely perfect with regards to the timeline of the story. She went scrambling back to Hollywood, where she received plenty of attention as a porn queen. Two years earlier to the week, she had arrived in Hollywood a fresh and beautiful 18-year-old, full of hope and unfocused dreams, soon to be making $100,000 a year as X-rated film star Shauna Grant, and blowing most of it on fast living and drugs. Her journey. Her family moved there in 1973, when her father took a managerial position with Central Telephone Company of Minnesota. The producers recommend ''parental discretion. Many liberties were taken with the characters in "Shattered Innocence" but it remains fairly true to actual events/people. The pay isn't bad - $100 to $1,500 depending on who's doing the shooting. Seems rather tame, but then again, what's shown is more than enough. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Porn on PBS has a certain ring to it. Applegate attempted suicide in December, 1981 by overdosing on prescription sinus pills. 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. This TV-movie begins like most others in the good-girl-goes-bad vein, but it drew me in regardless. 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. Karen Applegate stated that she believes her daughter was murdered on the orders of her ex-boyfriend Jake Erlich ("Mel Erman" in the film), then a cocaine dealer who was in prison at the time of Applegate's death and the owner of the Palm Springs home Applegate was living. Born in Southern California but grew up in Minnesota. In one year, she made 30 X-rated films, had sex with 37 men on camera, contracted herpes, had an abortion and made $100,000, most of which she spent on cocaine. Colleen was so incredibly young and naive. I had no idea that this was based on a true story, but it's a pretty believable premise. The back door of Ehrlichs house was a possible means of access to the bedroom and to Grant. Despite Karen Applegate's claims, the Palm Beach Police declined to reopen the investigation stating that there is no evidence to indicate Colleen Applegate was murdered. U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current. You let me be Colleen; you didnt expect me to be anyone else, she says about Erlich on an audio tape discovered in his house. There's nothing new here and it's presented in an obvious, watered down, made-for-tv style with annoying over-acting by Lee. Joanna Lee does an excellent job of portraying this poor young girl. Amazingly, many of the porn execs, photographers, coke dealers aren't depicted in a seedy light. 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. I have a Patreon if you wish to help out the ch. 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. 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. I vaguely remember of this TV movie i watched long ago in France because i am french and found it on the net in American..poor Pauleen! The second best result is Colleen Applegate age 60s in Creston, CA. The glimpse of the workings of the pornography business, however, is revealing, if not pretty. It's a sad story, but throughout the whole thing, you just want the lead character to get a freaking clue! [citation needed], In 1983, Grant retired from the adult film industry after less than a year and just over 30 films and videos, in which she had sex on screen with 37 men, and after contracting herpes and having an abortion. Colleen was a cheerleader in high school and graduated from Farmington High in 1981. The basic story is true. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Is Rep Anna Paulina Luna another George Santos? 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. She had three sisters, Veronica, Sheila and Shelrae and one brother, Mike. AKA Colleen Marie Applegate. 1 videocassette (58 min.) For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Within a year, Colleen was a gorgeous, triple-X porn starlet named Shauna Grant. But Hicks advised Applegate to get out of nude modeling quickly, because when all of the magazines had used her, the only thing left for her would be hardcore movies. She was a small town girl from Minnesota. But it was made well. Colleen is related to Eugene Keith Applegate and Bradley J Lawton as well as 2 additional people. 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