Making of a Male Model
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| Directed by | Irving J. Moore |
| Produced by | Aaron Spelling, E. Duke Vincent |
| Written by | AJ Carothers |
| Starring | Joan Collins, Jon-Erik Hexum |
| Music by | Artie Butler |
| Cinematography | Richard L. Rawlings |
| Editing by | Dick Darling |
| Distributed by | ABC |
| Release date(s) | October 9, 1983 |
| Running time | 100 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Making of a Male Model is a TV movie starring Joan Collins and Jon-Erik Hexum. It was produced by ABC and released on October 9 1983.
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[edit] Plot
Kay Dillon (Joan Collins), a successful modelling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett (Jon-Erik Hexum) in Nevada, while attending an outdoor shooting. She notices his good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working as a male model. Burnett, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, accepts the invitation and goes to New York, where he shares an appartement with another model, Chuck Lanyard. Lanyard is addicted to alcohol and drugs, since he is 35 years old, and therefore too old to be successful in the business. Burnett, who does not understand Lanyard's problems at first, is now being turned into one of America's best looking male models by his agent and soon wins his first professional assignment.
However, Burnett rather wants a woman to settle down with in Nevada, he does not really like the fast paced life in New York. After helping out Dillon during a fight with another agent, she falls in love with him and he believes she is the woman he could finally settle down with - despite the age difference.
Burnett soon becomes America's most successful male model and Dillon realizes that it's impossible to continue a relationship with him, being his agent. After she confronts him with the sad truth, Burnett loses himself in a world of drugs and meaningless affairs. Things change when his former roommate dies of an overdose. Burnett flees back to Nevada where Dillon is able to convince him to return for one last shooting.
Afterwards she lets him go and he returns to Nevada.
[edit] Critics
- Joan Collins tops the cast of the made-for-TV The Making of a Male Model. No, silly: Joan doesn't play the title role. Rather, she is cast as the barracudalike owner of a top modelling agency, while Jon-Erik Hexum (at the time, a real-life male model) costars as a Nevada rancher whom Joan selects for stardom-or, if you prefer, hunkdom. Watch for Rosemary Stack, the wife of actor Robert Stack, in a juicy cameo as Collins' chief rival. Making of a Male Model was originally telecast October 9, 1983. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide[1]
[edit] Trivia
- After the movie came out the media assumed a real affair between the then 50 year old Collins and her 25 year old co-star Jon-Erik Hexum. However, Hexum repeatedly stated that this rumor was not true.
- Making of a Male Model was Jon-Erik Hexum's break-through. However, he died one year later during a gun accident on the set of the TV show Cover Up.
