Her parents offered to pay for her college expenses, but she believed she would no longer be comfortable at home in Minnesota. Applegate had gone from pretty country girl to major porn star. Colleen Applegate was born in Bellflower, California. The film doesn't have the theatrical style of something like "Star 80", but it's actually a much better film. Trivia (6) Disliked the industry in general, but expressed a preference for Joey Silvera as a costar. 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. Her mother loves her but doesnt excuse or condone her behavior. Edit your search or learn more. '', Hicks, who does not consider himself an opportunist, advised Applegate. She stayed in the small town, working first as a cashier and then as a repair clerk with the phone company. Colleen is related to Eugene Keith Applegate and Bradley J Lawton as well as 2 additional people. Coleen is related to Roge C Applegate and Gina Chelaine Erickson as well as 1 additional person. I will bring you great trailers, behind the scenes material and assorted nonsense about film and pop culture. 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. Marcell then saw an ad for the World Modeling Agency in Van Nuys, which sought recruits for "figure modeling". Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). 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. Shauna Grant) was born Colleen Marie Applegate on May 20, 1963. 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. 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. [2] She was sometimes credited as Callie Aimes, Callie Aims, or Colleen Applegate. Pauleen chose to enter the adult film world and succumbed to cocaine addiction and ultimately faced the horrible consequences. 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. ''Because the mind of a typical 18-year-old is not prepared to make the right decisions in this town with these opportunists. She was a small town girl from Minnesota. Grant was buried in her favorite color, pink. They have also lived in San Mateo, CA and Atascadero, CA. 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. If it helps somebody else, thats the whole idea of it, Applegate said. 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. In the Frontline documentary, Marcell refused to speak about his relationship with Applegate, except to say that he no longer cared about her.[6]. The residential address for Coleen is 601 South Quincy Strt, St Francis, KS 67756. It may not display this or other websites correctly. I remember quite clearly the flurry of Los Angeles news reports regarding the self-inflicted death of adult film actress Shauna Grant whose real name was Colleen Applegate. (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). She made 30 features and did numerous shorts and photo-shoots over just a year in the . Colleen Marie Applegate, known professionally asShauna Grant (May 30, 1963 - March 23, 1984), was an American pornographic actress and nude model. 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. 1 videocassette (58 min.) After lingering for two days on life support Colleen finally passed away on March 23 1984 just two months shy of her 21th birthday. 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. Oh yes, they made a BIG deal about "the pornography business" and how "degrading it is" and how "this always happens" to "those kind of people" when Shauna was found with a self inflicted gunshot wound and later died. Template:Multiple issuesShauna Grant (ne Colleen Marie Applegate; May 30, 1963 - March 23, 1984) was an American nude model and pornographic performer. 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. We know that Roger Applegate also lived at this address, perhaps within a different time frame. Shattered Innocence: Directed by Sandor Stern. 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. Her pay rose from $300 a day to around $1,500. Anyone can read what you share. 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. 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]. But an enormously compelling PBS Frontline documentary (at 9 tonight on Channels 28 and 15 and at 10 on Channel 50) lifts the storytelling to a stunning new level. At times the story slips into scenes of melodrama with soap-opera style images and situations, but that is forgivable over-all. 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. Porn on PBS has a certain ring to it. 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. When the masses tune in, they will be shocked but not by sex. They have also lived in Liberty Lake, WA and Staten Island, NY. Search the history of over 797 billion Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. hard-copy-colleen-applegate-1990 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.7.0. plus-circle Add Review. Los Angeles, Randall Emmett, Ambyr Childers settle domestic violence restraining order dispute, Column: Supreme Court conservatives may want to block student loan forgiveness. I have a Patreon if you wish to help out the ch. The film doesn't have the theatrical style of something like "Star 80", but it's actually a much better film. It was kind of hard to feel sorry for her. To view the purposes they believe they have legitimate interest for, or to object to this data processing use the vendor list link below. And why? 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. Colleen was the first child born to Phil and Karen Applegate in 1963. The real "Pauline" (a.k.a. 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). Heres what to know, From Chris Rock to the SAG Awards. 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. 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. You get the idea of what the world of pornography is all about, what it does to the individual is that it kills her.. Questions arise about the accuracy of her biography. DOWNLOAD OPTIONS download 6 files . She is shown with high school pal Kris Kamm going in and out of various businesses and constantly turned down. 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. 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. Just a nosebleed. The second best result is Colleen Joy Applegate age 50s in Spokane, WA in the East Central neighborhood. 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. She was born in California but moved with her family to Minnesota in 1973. 26 Views . The mother asks, Why did this happen? Thats basically what the film asks, said Ocamb. It's quickly apparent that "Shattered Innocence" is a well-made, well-acted and written picture and it really caught me off guard. Miss Applegate first answered a newspaper advertisement for ''models.'' Colleen Applegate's high school yearbook was one of a very few personal possessions she kept with her. The basic story is true. 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 suspect the downfall of Pauleen Anderson is much closer to what happens to real-life porn actors than the glamourous lives of the characters in "Boogie Nights" (which by the way, ended with a bizzare, 'happy' conclusion for all). 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. All the men who worked with Miss Applegate tell how dedicated they were to her best interests. ***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I've seen this movie in italian,as I do live in Italy. 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