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 . His picture resonates with a sad, gritty truth that is tough to fathom but well-portrayed for our benefit. 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. The stars get the grief. (Hicks' work was frequently featured in Penthouse. She moved back to California in 1982 and fell into the adult movie industry. She made 30 features and did numerous shorts and photo-shoots over just a year in the . Template:Multiple issuesShauna Grant (ne Colleen Marie Applegate; May 30, 1963 - March 23, 1984) was an American nude model and pornographic performer. Has a song named after her called "Dancing With Shauna Grant". She went scrambling back to Hollywood, where she received plenty of attention as a porn queen. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Before his induction, he informed some residents of her small town that Applegate was involved with pornography, which caused her family much embarrassment. 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. I dont know, her mother said Tuesday. The film is based on Michael London's article, "The Death of Colleen", which detailed the short life and death of adult film actress Colleen Applegate (known professionally as Shauna Grant). London's article was featured in the Los Angeles Times six weeks after Applegate's suicide in March 1984. hard-copy-colleen-applegate-1990 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0. plus-circle Add Review. (She was the subject of a Calendar cover story May 6, 1984, and her story also is being made into a TV movie for next season). The desert air dries up my membranes. (*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. **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. Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). She was 20-years old. Coleen K Applegate, 76. An agent, Jim South, took pictures and sent them to a Penthouse magazine photographer, Steve Hicks. You must log in or register to reply here. I agree with the comments above about this film. This TV-movie begins like most others in the good-girl-goes-bad vein, but it drew me in regardless. The second is to change the name of the original program, ''Death of an American Girl,'' coproduced by WCCO Minneapolis and WGBH Boston, to ''Death of a Porn Queen.'' She is 17 years old at the beginning and fresh and nave as a cheerleader with a boyfriend and many dreams of fame.But unfortunately she soon leaves her parents and school for Los Angeles where she wants to find a job and be a model.But Pauleen is so young that she is ready to accept everything without compromise .Shy and reserved at first she becomes a trash model and breaks with her family.The nightmare will begin with completely nude pictures and soon cocaine addiction and porn films to pay her coke.Pauleen who dreamt of a glamorous image will only have a porn actress image for a time. Jonna Lee, which was "very watchable" throughout, does a good job of portraying Grant. 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. Brain dead, Grant was rushed to Desert Hospital, where life support systems were disconnected after two days. Born in Southern California but grew up in Minnesota. Is Rep Anna Paulina Luna another George Santos? ''Because the mind of a typical 18-year-old is not prepared to make the right decisions in this town with these opportunists. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. 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. You get the idea of what the world of pornography is all about, what it does to the individual is that it kills her.. comment. 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. AKA Colleen Marie Applegate. Colleen Applegate was born in Bellflower, California. Death, Burial, Cemetery & Obituaries. 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. Be the first one to, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. [citation needed] She was buried at the Saint Michaels Catholic Cemetery in Farmington. ''It`s unfortunate that Mother Nature put 18-year-old girls on the planet with beautiful bodies,'' Hicks says in the program. It's a sad story, but throughout the whole thing, you just want the lead character to get a freaking clue! Hollander launched her adult film career, suggesting what he felt was a "classy" stage name, Shauna Grant. In the film the lead has a fake ID stating she is 21 while she is only 19 but in 1983 the legal drinking age in the US was 19 and didn't change to 21 until 1985. : 1/2 in Host, Judy Woodruff; narrator, Al Austin Segment from the television program Frontline Closed captioned for the hearing impaired VHS "FRON513K." Addeddate 2019-10-27 02:50:10 Applegate attempted suicide in December, 1981 by overdosing on prescription sinus pills. The young woman whose innocence is shattered is based on real-life porn-star Shauna Grant. She was a small town girl from Minnesota. Amazingly, many of the porn execs, photographers, coke dealers aren't depicted in a seedy light. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) _ Karen Applegate is still searching for answers, four years after her oldest daughter left her small-town Minnesota home for Hollywood, where she became a porn-movie queen and cocaine addict. 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 . A high school graduate leaves behind her modest life and finds work in the sex industry, but it ends in disaster. 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. On March 21st 1984, Grant committed suicide at the age of twenty in Palm Springs by shooting herself with a . 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. 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. Pauleen Anderson: [attempts to leave] Fine! The acting is very good, with actress Melinda Dillon (most recognized as the mother from A Christmas Story) giving a stunningly frustrated and distraught performance. She was an actress. Grant and Smith had partied and slept in the days following the awards show and lost track of time. Born in Bellflower, California, Colleen Applegate grew up in the small town of Farmington, Minnesota. Select this result to view Coleen K Applegate's phone number, address, and more. Her pay rose from $300 a day to around $1,500. The plot continually amplified this and we were left to conclude that this lack of unconditional love and understanding was the main reason for Shauna's suicide. Colleen was a cheerleader in high school and graduated from Farmington High in 1981. Heres what to know, From Chris Rock to the SAG Awards. Members of the adult industry were absent from the ceremony, believing their presence would only exacerbate the familys anguish. You burned a hole in your nose. The second best result is Colleen Joy Applegate age 50s in Spokane, WA in the East Central neighborhood. Like many, she came from the rural midwest and was attracted to the bright lights of LA hoping to make it as a legit model only to pose nude and end up in porn. And the various settings and decor reveal both a rural Kansas home-spun comfort and the Hollywood Californian high-life of excess. 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. This only leads one to imagine an even harsher world for girls in pornography today (and is evidenced in the fact that several others have also taken their own lives since this story originally took place). 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. It is really a sad and moving story, well directed and acted. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. When Applegate was barred from a Minnesota friend`s wedding because of her new career, it hurt her deeply. Mel Erman: [nods disapprovingly] I'm closing the cupboard. Applegate had gone from pretty country girl to major porn star. She never fully emerges from her silhouette, remaining in death as she was in life, enigmatic and very, very sad. Shauna Grant (Colleen Applegate) and Jamie Gillis interviewed by Bobby Hollander, from 1982 Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. ''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. There have been some stirring accounts of the. He tells of their happy months together before he was sent to prison for dealing. "In as much . 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. She died on 21 March 1984 in Palm Springs, California, USA. Tastefully, with humanity, and completely free of exploitation. 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. 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). In "Shattered Innocence" entry, escape from and re-entry into the porn business leads to tragic, lonely, and hurtful existence. 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. Her parents offered to pay her tuition to college if she moved back home to Minnesota but she declined thinking she would no longer feel comfortable there. The second best result is Colleen Applegate age 60s in Creston, CA. Her high school diploma, her cheerleading letters, her confirmation certificate and a copy of Hustler magazine with her picture on the cover. There, one night in December that year, she consumed a handful of prescription sinus pills in a suicide gesture. 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. Porn on PBS has a certain ring to it. The agent was as good as his word, and Miss Applegate made a hit with photographers for girlie magazines. The back door of Ehrlichs house was a possible means of access to the bedroom and to Grant. 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. 'FRONTLINE' DOCUMENTARY, 'DEATH OF A PORN QUEEN', https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/09/movies/frontline-documentary-death-of-a-porn-queen.html. 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. The .22-caliber slug ripped through her brain and lodged in the bedroom wall of her boyfriend`s posh home in Palm Springs. Colleen was the first child born to Phil and Karen Applegate in 1963. 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. 3. 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