**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. 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. After lingering for two days on life support Colleen finally passed away on March 23 1984 just two months shy of her 21th birthday.
About to graduate from high school and go out in the world for the first time just turned 18 year-old Bannon Kansas High School cheerleader Pauleen Anderson, Joanna Lee, is about as naive and unfamiliar with the world outside Bannon as she is about what going on in Jupiter or Mars. Determained to make something of herself Pauleen quickly quits a job at the local phone company that her father, Dennis Howard, a supervisor there got for her. Knowing that she's about the most beautiful girl in town and having her boyfriend Cory Parker, Kris Kamm, willing to drive her and himself out to L.A Pauleen says goodbye to Bannon and her parents Del and Sharon Anderson, Medlinda Dillon. Pauleen feels that she has all the qualities that can make her a top fashion model or even movie star and the sooner she starts the better things will be for her.
After knocking around the beach and town Pauleen finally lands a job for this modeling agency, Selby, where the owner Lou Gates, Ben Frank, an ex-professional boxer sees that Pauleen has a lot of talent as a future model and quickly get her started in a series photo session at his studio.
We see right away that Pauleen is not that eager to take her clothes off since her upbringing back in Bannon was anything but ultra-liberal in the sexual freedoms that were so common in places like L.A San Francisco or New York back then during the "sexual revolution". With a little prodding by Lou Pauleen starts to get the hang of things as a nude or semi-nude model and in no time at all she's making as much as $200.00 a day when she's working on a photo shoot. Cory seeing the results of his girlfriend Pauleen's work, the nude photos, breaks up with her and leaves for Bannon leaving Pauleen alone in the big city with almost no one to turn to for help.
Slowly getting corrupted by drugs as well as posing nude and later appearing and acting in porno flicks the truth about Pauleen's sudden descent into the dark abyss of the world of adult entertainment reaches her parents and friends back in Bannon Kansas. This shocking discovery of Pauleens not so secret life happens as she appears in a number of nude and explicate girlie magazines and XXX rated movies and videos on sale in and around Bannon.
The movie "Shattered Innocence" is very realistic in the fact that not all was bad and depressing for young Paulleen. We see her having good times at high class parties with famous Hollywood producers directors and actors in attendance. Pauleen did in the brief time that she was involved in the porno business have more then her share of fame & success , earning herself a nomination as best porno actress of 1983 at the yearly Erotic Film Awards. As a top rated and much sought after Porno Queen, making as much as 30 feature films, Pauleen made more then enough money to get her out of the business and start a new life. It was Pauleens strong addicting to cocaine that she stuck up her nose almost around the clock in order to keep her weight down and give her a high that ate up all her savings, as much as $1,500.00 a day when she was shooting a movie. It was when her cocaine supplier and live-in boyfriend Mel ,John Pleshette, was sent away to the big house for five years on an old drug rap that pushed Pauleen to the edge and also drove the depressed confused and abandoned young woman to kill herself.
All too common a story about how the glamor and glitter of tinsel town drove many a young girl to her doom finding out only too late that the odds of making it big, no matter how gorgeous and beautiful she is, on the big or small screen is about as high as the dead coming back to life before the resurrection. Even if Pauleen, by some miracle, did make it to stardom and fame, without being addicted to drugs, in almost all cases it would last about as long as a flickering shooting star across the sky on a warm summer night; Like the short and sad life of of the beautiful but tragic Pauleen Anderson AKA Colleen Applegate.
About to graduate from high school and go out in the world for the first time just turned 18 year-old Bannon Kansas High School cheerleader Pauleen Anderson, Joanna Lee, is about as naive and unfamiliar with the world outside Bannon as she is about what going on in Jupiter or Mars. Determained to make something of herself Pauleen quickly quits a job at the local phone company that her father, Dennis Howard, a supervisor there got for her. Knowing that she's about the most beautiful girl in town and having her boyfriend Cory Parker, Kris Kamm, willing to drive her and himself out to L.A Pauleen says goodbye to Bannon and her parents Del and Sharon Anderson, Medlinda Dillon. Pauleen feels that she has all the qualities that can make her a top fashion model or even movie star and the sooner she starts the better things will be for her.
After knocking around the beach and town Pauleen finally lands a job for this modeling agency, Selby, where the owner Lou Gates, Ben Frank, an ex-professional boxer sees that Pauleen has a lot of talent as a future model and quickly get her started in a series photo session at his studio.
We see right away that Pauleen is not that eager to take her clothes off since her upbringing back in Bannon was anything but ultra-liberal in the sexual freedoms that were so common in places like L.A San Francisco or New York back then during the "sexual revolution". With a little prodding by Lou Pauleen starts to get the hang of things as a nude or semi-nude model and in no time at all she's making as much as $200.00 a day when she's working on a photo shoot. Cory seeing the results of his girlfriend Pauleen's work, the nude photos, breaks up with her and leaves for Bannon leaving Pauleen alone in the big city with almost no one to turn to for help.
Slowly getting corrupted by drugs as well as posing nude and later appearing and acting in porno flicks the truth about Pauleen's sudden descent into the dark abyss of the world of adult entertainment reaches her parents and friends back in Bannon Kansas. This shocking discovery of Pauleens not so secret life happens as she appears in a number of nude and explicate girlie magazines and XXX rated movies and videos on sale in and around Bannon.
The movie "Shattered Innocence" is very realistic in the fact that not all was bad and depressing for young Paulleen. We see her having good times at high class parties with famous Hollywood producers directors and actors in attendance. Pauleen did in the brief time that she was involved in the porno business have more then her share of fame & success , earning herself a nomination as best porno actress of 1983 at the yearly Erotic Film Awards. As a top rated and much sought after Porno Queen, making as much as 30 feature films, Pauleen made more then enough money to get her out of the business and start a new life. It was Pauleens strong addicting to cocaine that she stuck up her nose almost around the clock in order to keep her weight down and give her a high that ate up all her savings, as much as $1,500.00 a day when she was shooting a movie. It was when her cocaine supplier and live-in boyfriend Mel ,John Pleshette, was sent away to the big house for five years on an old drug rap that pushed Pauleen to the edge and also drove the depressed confused and abandoned young woman to kill herself.
All too common a story about how the glamor and glitter of tinsel town drove many a young girl to her doom finding out only too late that the odds of making it big, no matter how gorgeous and beautiful she is, on the big or small screen is about as high as the dead coming back to life before the resurrection. Even if Pauleen, by some miracle, did make it to stardom and fame, without being addicted to drugs, in almost all cases it would last about as long as a flickering shooting star across the sky on a warm summer night; Like the short and sad life of of the beautiful but tragic Pauleen Anderson AKA Colleen Applegate.