A dream man on the front page

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Movie
German title A dream man on the front page
Original title Making of a Male Model
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1983
length 100 minutes
Rod
Director Irving J. Moore
script AJ Carothers
production Aaron Spelling , E. Duke Vincent
music Artie Butler
camera Richard L. Rawlings
cut Dick darling
occupation

A dream man on the front page (original title: Making of a Male Model ) is a TV drama commissioned by ABC with Joan Collins and Jon-Erik Hexum . The film first aired on October 9, 1983.

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The successful model agent Kay Dillon (Joan Collins) meets the young farm worker Tyler Burnett (Jon-Erik Hexum) while shooting outdoors in Nevada, whom she invites to New York because of his good looks, where she wants to represent him as an agent. Burnett, who has no promising job and has just been dumped by his girlfriend, accepts the offer and moves to New York, where Dillon places him in a shared apartment with the aging male model Chuck Lanyard. Lanyard, previously spoiled by success, cannot cope with fewer orders due to its age and has thus become addicted to alcohol and drugs. Burnett, who at first can't do much with the problems of his flatmate, is styled and dressed on behalf of his agent in the following days and soon gets his first job as a professional photo model.

In contrast to the superficial everyday model life, Burnett longs for a woman with whom he can settle in the country and is turned down several times by beautiful but career-oriented model colleagues. However, after he supports his agent in an argument with another agent, she falls in love with him - and he believes he has found the woman of his life in her, despite the enormous age difference.

Burnett soon became America's most sought-after model, and Dillon knew that a relationship couldn't exist. She withdraws more and more from him and when she makes it clear to him that there is no point in hoping for a future together, Burnett gets lost in a world of drugs and meaningless affairs. Only the unexpected death of his flat-share colleague prompted him to rethink. He disappears from New York overnight and goes back to Nevada, where Dillon soon finds him and persuades him to take on one last assignment, otherwise he would face a damning lawsuit from a client whose assignment he had already accepted in advance.

Then she releases him and he returns to Nevada.

Reviews

“Glamor and misery in the modeling profession and advertising milieu: The film is the right ramp for Joan Collins as a model agent who chases her young Arizona Rübezahl through the melodramatic dangers of a big-city party career. A perfumed fashion fuss from the clothing boutique. "

- "Ponkie" : evening paper, 9 September 1994

this and that

  • After the film was released, the media also suspected a private affair between the then 50-year-old Collins and her 25-year-old film partner Jon-Erik Hexum, which Hexum denied repeatedly.
  • The film was Jon-Erik Hexum's first feature film, which made it very popular in 1983. However, he died a year later of a brain hemorrhage after an accident with a film gun on the set of the US series Fashion, Models and Intrigue ( Cover Up ).

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