Shauna Grant Shrine: Shauna Grant Collection (Thanks Phineas!)

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2:07:24
720x480
Frame Rate: 29 fps
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Data Rate: 39 kbps
Audio Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Audio Codec: MP3
Video Codec: DivX
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ABA Description:
Shauna was every mans fantasy during her all too brief career from 1982 to 1984.
Shaunas soft, almost fragile beauty, captivated the fans of early 80s hardcore
with her drop dead gorgeous face and blonde hair topping a perfect slender body,
puffy nipples and a plush inviting ass. Heres two hours,10 scenes, including some
of her RAREST and EARLIEST stuff EVER. 1982 loops from Swedish Erotica, Lusty Ladies
and Maximum. 1982 features like Valley Vixens and Paper Dolls. And of course, her
unforgettable appearances in 1983s Suzie Superstar, Centerfold Celebrities 3,
and The Young Like It Hot. Bonus still gallery included.

Wikipedia Entry:
Shauna Grant, born Colleen Marie Applegate on May 30, 1963 to March 21, 1984, was
an American nude model and pornographic actress. She was sometimes credited as
Callie Aimes, Callie Aims, or Colleen Applegate.

Grant was active in the adult industry from 1982 to 1984. She died, at age 20, from
a self inflicted gunshot wound. Shauna Grants career and death were fictionalized
as the basis for the television movie Shattered Innocence.

Early life
Born in Bellflower, California, Applegate grew up in the small town of Farmington,
Minnesota, population 3,562 in 1984. Her family moved there from California in 1973
when her father took a managerial position with Central Telephone Company of Minnesota.
She was a cheerleader in high school. Applegate graduated from Farmington High in 1981,
but eschewed her job as a repair clerk with the phone company. Later that year she consumed
a handful of prescription sinus pills in a suicide gesture, sessions at a counselling center
did not provide much assistance for her. Applegate ran away from home and moved to California
in March 1982, accompanied by her high school sweetheart, Mike Marcell. She left behind
her parents, a brother, and three sisters.

Adult industry
The couple arrived in Los Angeles, California. Applegate and Marcell looked into a number of
jobs in the first month. Little came of this until one of them saw an ad for World Modeling,
an agency in Van Nuys. This business diligently sought attractive new recruits for figure modeling.
Accompanied by Marcell, Applegate visited agent Jim South, who set up a photo session with
photographer J. Stephen Hicks. The pictorials theme featured a mock camping set and was to
be published by Club. Hicks reflected on Applegates 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. Colleen was so incredibly young and naive. She was completely
un hip and non L.A. Her wholesome, girl next door looks soon landed her work posing for
other magazines such as Hustler and Penthouse.

As Shauna Grant, she made a number of popular adult movies, more often plot oriented
than wall to wall sex. One such movie was Suzie Superstar, in which she plays the lead singer
of a rock band. By industry standards, Grant was early in her career when it suddenly came to
an end. In a filmed interview, she said that she wasnt ready to try anal sex, which usually
marks a starlet rather than a star. She also did only heterosexual scenes, most porn actresses
also do lesbian scenes.

Applegates relationship with her boyfriend did not endure two months in California, as
Marcell joined the U.S. Army. Before his induction he informed his family that Applegate had
become a nude model. Soon she progressed to filming hardcore scenes for Suze Randall. Veteran
porn producer Bobby Hollander launched Applegates movie career and suggested what he felt was
a classy stage name, Shauna Grant. As a fast-rising adult film personality she was featured
in Virginia, Suzie Superstar, and Flesh and Lace, among many others. Her pay rose from 300.00 a
day to nearly 1,500.00. Off-screen she traveled in limousines and stayed in first-class hotels.
Grant was provided with her own make-up artist, Laurie Smith, age 27. Her popularity earned her
three acting nominations at the March 1984 Erotic Film Awards. Despite her beauty she had some
difficulty getting work due to her cocaine addiction and lack of enthusiasm during sex scenes.
In some circles she acquired the nickname Applecoke and gained a reputation for being flaky.

Retirement
In 1983, Grant retired from the adult film industry after less than a year and just over 30 movies.
She disliked the industry, although she regarded Joey Silvera well. Through Hollander she found a
new boyfriend, Jack Ehrlich, age 44. Ehrlich had eased her out of adult films and the two
settled in Palm Springs, California. He owned a leather goods store, Pelle, in downtown Palm Springs,
which Grant began to manage. According to Palm Springs Police, Ehrlich made his living supplying
cocaine to tenants of an upscale condominium park close to his house. He had compiled an extensive
record of arrests in California which included such offenses as selling narcotics and possession
of stolen property. In the summer of 1983, Ehrlich was sentenced to a five year prison sentence
which he began serving in the State Institution for Men in Chino, California. The charges related
to Ehrlichs 1981 arrest for possession of what detectives described as several pounds of cocaine.

Grant was ambivalent about her circumstances following her boyfriends conviction, which cut off
her drug supply. Her desire for work in mainstream films was not working out, so she committed to
work on her first adult film in months. Matinee Idol was due to begin filming in a few days in
San Francisco, California. Grant persuaded her friend and veteran porn actress, Kelly Nichols,
to take the role which was intended for her. Shauna also had the option of returning to Minnesota.
Grants parents offered to pay for her college expenses, but she believed she would no longer be
comfortable at home in Minnesota.

Death
On March 21, 1984, Grant committed suicide at age twenty in Palm Springs by shooting herself
with a 22 caliber rifle. Shortly after 7 p.m. she lay down, placed the gun horizontally against her
head, and pulled the trigger. The shot passed through her right temple, out the left and into the
bedroom wall, according to police reports. The gun was discharged from such close range that the
bullet left virtually star shaped holes. Brain dead, Shauna was rushed to Desert Hospital, where life
support systems were disconnected after two days.

Grants funeral was held March 28, 1984, at St. Michaels Church, a Catholic parish near the center
of Farmington. Members of the adult industry were absent from the ceremony, believing their presence
would only exacerbate the familys anguish. Instead they contributed both flowers and letters.
Grant was buried in her favorite color, pink.

Preliminary investigations by Palm Springs police posed questions regarding the circumstances
surrounding Grants death. Weeks after the event, police were still awaiting results of toxicological
and gun residue tests. The possibility of a foul play investigation hung in the balance. It is
known that Grant had received threatening phone calls that related to her boyfriends business
affairs. Also, detectives noted Ehrlich had avoided jail for some time by providing authorities
with information. At the time of Grants death there were two people playing pool in Ehrlichs
house, Brenda Rosenow, a friend of Colleens, and Cal Ardigo, a friend of Ehrlichs. Shortly before
Grants shooting, two unidentified visitors showed up outside the home. The back door of Ehrlichs
house was a possible means of access to the bedroom and to Grant.

Grants career and death were fictionalized as the basis for a television movie called
Shattered Innocence, a film that bears little resemblance to her actual life. Her parents used
their proceeds from selling the rights to the movie to fund Grants tombstone.

IMDB:
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...: Absolutely Awesome Shauna Grant Collection Phineas! Thanks.

At the end of the SG collection, there is a short into to an Alpha Blue Archives film titled Teenage Lust.

It looks like a great vintage film. I searched AlpheBlueArchives without luck. Can you post it?; September 21, 2008 12:02 PM
Anonymous said...: when i extract the files says wrong pass why?; November 28, 2008 5:24 PM
Lena said...: If the error message comes with a "?" question mark, it means one or more of the files was corrupted when you downloaded.

Check the file sizes, and download the corrupted one(s) again.; November 28, 2008 6:11 PM

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