Her name and hometown were changed in the film, but her mother said: The whole mess is true. Born in California and later moving to the little tree-lined Minnesota town, pop 3,500, of Farmingdale Colleen was a beautiful and friendly girl.It turned out that her looks and girl-next-door persona was what brought her to the life that she lead and suffered through from 1981 to 1984 ending up with a bullet in her skull. A drug addict, Grant killed herself after the arrest of her partner in March, 1984. 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. All the men who worked with Miss Applegate tell how dedicated they were to her best interests. Eventually, her identity lost, her mind and body ravaged by cocaine, Colleen Applegate committed suicide.. "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. In Suzie Superstar, she played the lead singer of a rock band. Joanna Lee does an excellent job of portraying this poor young girl. 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). Resides in Morgantown, PA. Before his induction, he informed some residents of her small town that Applegate was involved with pornography, which caused her family much embarrassment. You burned a hole in your nose. When she got to Hollywood, she found no work until she answered an ad for nude models. The movie portrayed them as real straightlaced simpletons, incapable or unwilling to deal with anything outside their "small town" existence. (785) 332-2892 is the phone number for Coleen. At the same time Jake Ehrlich, another boyfriend and cocaine supplier for Grant, telephoned from prison informing her that their relationship was over and that Grant had to move out of his home in Palm Springs. Miss Applegate first answered a newspaper advertisement for ''models.'' The back door of Ehrlichs house was a possible means of access to the bedroom and to Grant. Join Facebook to connect with Colleen Applegate and others you may know. Her parents offered to pay for her college expenses, but she believed she would no longer be comfortable at home in Minnesota. Do it. ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I've seen this movie in italian,as I do live in Italy. Uploaded by U.S., Obituary Collection, 1930-Current. He was in prison serving time for a cocaine charge. TV movies have a lack of fluidity of camerawork and lack of showmanship as is the case with "Shattered Innocence". All the acting is solid and Sandor Stern's direction is both careful and easy. There, one night in December that year, she consumed a handful of prescription sinus pills in a suicide gesture. Colleen Marie Applegate, known professionally as The gun was discharged from such close range that the bullet left virtually star-shaped holes. Back home, Applegate`s parents were aghast, and they flew to Los Angeles to find her. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. 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. If it helps somebody else, thats the whole idea of it, Applegate said. She was a small town girl from Minnesota. Mr. Austin is given to observations about Colleen being ''lost,'' ''unprepared'' and so forth. Only the father seems somewhat uncharacteristically unfettered by his daughter's lifestyle, which doesn't really ring true for any father with daughters, that I've ever known. Mel Erman: You think you're talking to some farmer on the back forty? She retired from adult films in 1983. ''Death of a Porn Queen,'' shows the porn industry for what it is--people who are willing to exploit other people for cash. AKA Colleen Marie Applegate. I dont know, her mother said Tuesday. The desert air dries up my membranes. Her pay rose from $300 a day to around $1,500. on the Internet. Colleen was the first child born to Phil and Karen Applegate in 1963. Melinda Dillion, who played Peter Billingsley's mother in "A Christmas Story", plays the mother of his real life siblings (Melissa Michaelsen and Neil Billingsley) in this film. Coleen's age is 75. Why Netflix is dabbling in livestreaming, Before and after photos from space show storms effect on California reservoirs, Yet more rain expected to hit California in March. Jonna Lee, which was "very watchable" throughout, does a good job of portraying 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. Later I learned that the character depicted in this film was actually based on Colleen Applegate, an adult film star who killed herself in 1984 at 20 years old after battling severe drug addiction and depression. And the various settings and decor reveal both a rural Kansas home-spun comfort and the Hollywood Californian high-life of excess. ''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. Shauna Grant (May 30, 1963 March 23, 1984) was an American nude model and pornographic performer. H.264 IA . Colleen Applegate is on Facebook. As a fast-rising adult entertainment personality, she was featured in Virginia, Suzie Superstar, and Flesh and Laces 1 & 2, among many other films. [citation needed], Grant's popularity earned her three acting nominations at the Erotic Film Awards in March, 1984. Lived In South River NJ, Hightstown NJ, Monroe Township NJ, Mount Holly NJ. I highly recommend Shattered Innocence as a good Made-For-TV movie, created before the "onslaught" of such made the genre a joke of sorts, and as an intriguing story and picture on the whole. After news spread around Farmington about her suicide attempt, Applegate left town with her boyfriend,[1] Mike Marcell, and moved to California in March, 1982. In "Shattered Innocence" entry, escape from and re-entry into the porn business leads to tragic, lonely, and hurtful existence. Jonna Lee also does well to give us a sense of the innocent, starry-eyed and naive teen who, so soon and so sadly, becomes self-destructive, emotionally and morally devastated, and completely lost in a world of corruption. Reported for Frontline by Al Austin, Death of a Porn Queen unfolds through the eyes of Applegates parents, friends and colleagues, some of them shady and apparently destructive influences who pass through her life in a gauzy twilight. WCCO reporter Al Austin does a fine job of providing a calm and candid look inside the porn business and, through interviews with Applegate`s friends, family and employers, he gives us a peek inside the head of a country girl-turned-porn star. 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. A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. Reviews There are no reviews yet. What I liked about the movie's approach was that it did not condem the obvious culprit, the porn industry, for the downfall and demise of Pauleen Anderson. 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. The residential address for Coleen is 601 South Quincy Strt, St Francis, KS 67756. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Melinda Dillon is memorable as the disapproving mother who understands neither her daughter's restlessness nor how the high-paying porno business would prove as addictive as cocaine to a young girl with nothing to sell but her looks. Pauleen Anderson: [cover her nose] Oh, I fine. She was an actress. Segment from the television program Frontline, Closed captioned for the hearing impaired, There are no reviews yet. Her friendly director passed her along to his cocaine supplier, a man twice her age, with whom she moved in. Two years later she was dead. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Score two. The whole mess is true. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. I wonder what happened to her. Its impossible to know even from this fine film exactly when and where she went wrong, why she shot herself and who is to blame. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. It profiled Colleen Applegate, a small-town Minnesota teenager who, running away to Los Angeles in 1982, soon after became the porn actress known as "Callie Aimes" and then more famously as "Shauna Grant." Blonde, rosy-cheeked and meaty, she was the fantasy girl for every dirty-old-man-next-door. She is shown with high school pal Kris Kamm going in and out of various businesses and constantly turned down. 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). [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. 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? 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. She moved back to California in 1982 and fell into the adult movie industry. Very forgettable stuff. The movie was made because Colleen Applegates story is representative of so many young people, Ocamb said. "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. You get the idea of what the world of pornography is all about, what it does to the individual is that it kills her.. Shauna Grant) was born Colleen Marie Applegate on May 20, 1963. 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. **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. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. 26 Views . At times the story slips into scenes of melodrama with soap-opera style images and situations, but that is forgivable over-all. . Sarah on what the Church tragically needs today, Catholic Nun Demands Impeachment of Argentinian Judge Who Granted Custody to Mother Who Murdered Her Own Son. This is a digitized version of an article from The Timess print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. She then started using cocaine to lose weight. Shattered Innocence: Directed by Sandor Stern. She made 30 features and did numerous shorts and photo-shoots over just a year in the . Coleen can be reached via e-mail c_rapplgate@sbcglobal.net. Jonna Lee was pretty good in this role. This 1988 made for t.v. 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. Members of the adult industry were absent from the ceremony, believing their presence would only exacerbate the familys anguish. Just a nosebleed. DOWNLOAD OPTIONS download 6 files . Sep 17, 2007. JavaScript is disabled. [2] She was sometimes credited as Callie Aimes, Callie Aims, or Colleen Applegate. Instead, they contributed flowers and letters. Her name was Colleen Marie Applegate. The second best result is Colleen Applegate age 60s in Creston, CA. She had three sisters, Veronica, Sheila and Shelrae and one brother, Mike. 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. I have a Patreon if you wish to help out the ch. She was a "Miss American Pie" who traded rural Minnesota for Hollywood glitter, but Colleen Applegate's stardom came only through Penthouse and Hustler magazines and movies such as "Flesh and Laces." At age 20, the conflict between Colleen and her pornographic persona, Shauna Grant, ended in Palm Springs with a 22-caliber rifle bullet . She left her small-town home of Farmington, Minn., at age 18 to chase a dream in Hollywood. Hicks reflected on Applegate's appearance and personality, saying: "I deal with a lot of girls who are new in the business, a lot of young girls and a lot of girls from out of town. An agent, Jim South, took pictures and sent them to a Penthouse magazine photographer, Steve Hicks. The glimpse of the workings of the pornography business, however, is revealing, if not pretty. Template:Multiple issuesShauna Grant (ne Colleen Marie Applegate; May 30, 1963 - March 23, 1984) was an American nude model and pornographic performer. See production, box office & company info, 7224 N. 47th Street Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA. They change. [10], Grant persuaded her friend, veteran porn performer Kelly Nichols, to take over the role Grant had been offered in Matinee Idol. Was a cheerleader in high school in Minnesota. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. She never fully emerges from her silhouette, remaining in death as she was in life, enigmatic and very, very sad. Marcell then saw an ad for the World Modeling Agency in Van Nuys, which sought recruits for "figure modeling". Edit Search New Search Filters (1) To get better results, add more information such as Birth Info, Death Info and Locationeven a guess will help. I recommend this TV movie to anyone who enjoys a tragic real life story. 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. 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. Ms. Lee made only a few pictures. 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. (*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. 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. Her family moved there in 1973, when her father took a managerial position with Central Telephone Company of Minnesota. London's article was featured in the Los Angeles Times six weeks after Applegate's suicide in March 1984. The pay isn't bad - $100 to $1,500 depending on who's doing the shooting. Accompanied by Marcell, Applegate visited the agency's owner, Jim South, who set up a photo session with legendary soft-core photographer J. Stephen Hicks. She stayed in the town, working first as a cashier and then as a repair clerk with the phone company. Knowing that this fictionalized account mirrors the life and death of real-life porn star Colleen Applegate only makes it more compelling. Mel Erman: And do what, go back to pornos? 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. 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. Trivia (6) Disliked the industry in general, but expressed a preference for Joey Silvera as a costar. Colleen was a cheerleader in high school and graduated from Farmington High in 1981. Referring to her drug habit, he says, ''It's hard for a cocaine dealer to control someone close to you.'' On March 23, 1984, Grant committed suicide in Palm Springs by shooting herself with a .22 Long Rifle. She died on 21 March 1984 in Palm Springs, California, USA. 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. The producers recommend ''parental discretion. The film ends with Pauline, the character based on Colleen Applegate (known professionally as Shauna Grant), dying of a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Is Kate Forbes Christian Faith A Career Killer? Colleen is related to Eugene Keith Applegate and Bradley J Lawton as well as 2 additional people. Born: 30-May-1963 Birthplace: Bellflower, CA Died: 21-Mar-1984 Location of death: Palm Springs, CA Cause of death: Suicide Remains: Buried, St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Empire, MN Gender: Female Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Pornstar Nationality: United States Executive summary: Killed . However, despite these accolades and her beauty, Grant had some difficulty getting work due to her cocaine addiction and lack of "enthusiasm" during sex scenes. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. The only other movie I saw her in was "Making the Grade." 'FRONTLINE' DOCUMENTARY, 'DEATH OF A PORN QUEEN', https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/09/movies/frontline-documentary-death-of-a-porn-queen.html. Grant was buried in her favorite color, pink. 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. ''It`s unfortunate that Mother Nature put 18-year-old girls on the planet with beautiful bodies,'' Hicks says in the program. Within a year, Colleen was a gorgeous, triple-X porn starlet named Shauna Grant. His picture resonates with a sad, gritty truth that is tough to fathom but well-portrayed for our benefit. There have been some stirring accounts of the. Colleen Marie Applegate, known professionally as Shauna Grant (May 30, 1963 - March 23, 1984), was an American pornographic actress and nude model. But it was made well. [9], At the awards show, Grant agreed to work on her first adult film in 10 months, Matinee Idol. The rise and fall of Dirk Diggler in Paul Thomas Andersons film. She was 20-years old. 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. On March 21st 1984, Grant committed suicide at the age of twenty in Palm Springs by shooting herself with a . Her family moved there in 1973, when her father took a managerial position with Central Telephone Company of Minnesota. #1. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. Left on her own and reluctant to go back to making porn flicks, Miss Applegate apparently went to pieces, using up all the cocaine she could find in the process. I give this an 8 out of 10. Has a song named after her called "Dancing With Shauna Grant". The short, tragic odyssey of Colleen Applegate, who left Minnesota at 18, became porn star Shauna Grant, and killed herself at age 20. [citation needed] She was buried at the Saint Michaels Catholic Cemetery in Farmington. Colleen was the first child born to Phil and Karen Applegate in 1963. Jonna Lee is convincing in every way as a natural beauty who is not mature enough to handle what she's gotten herself into. When they did, they issued an ultimatum, which, of course, she ignored. Here are the lyrics to that song I was talking about BTW: As a BetterHelp affiliate, we may receive compensation from BetterHelp if you purchase products or services through the links provided. And why? 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. In the Frontline documentary, Marcell refused to speak about his relationship with Applegate, except to say that he no longer cared about her.[6]. Many liberties were taken with the characters in "Shattered Innocence" but it remains fairly true to actual events/people. The first way to ensure ratings success is the disclaimer, which warns adults to lock the kids in their rooms, for they are about to see a program that contains sexually explicit language and scenes. Was college a worse alternative than becoming a strung out porn star?? Sadly, she took her life on March 23, 1984. The second best result is Colleen Joy Applegate age 50s in Spokane, WA in the East Central neighborhood. Everyday that we insist on fragmenting ourselves we ensure that we will continue to produce this type of individual. 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Born in Bellflower, California, Colleen Applegate grew up in the small town of Farmington, Minnesota. A few days after the awards show, Marcell, her former boyfriend flew to Los Angeles to visit her, but Grant forgot about his arrival.
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