A HILL / MANDELKER FILMS PRODUCTION
Starring
JOAN COLLINS as Cartier Rand / Marilyn Halifax
DAVID HASSELHOFF as Curt Taylor
TELLY SAVALAS as Phil Drexler
ED LAUTER as Lyndon Dean
RANDI BROOKS as Shirley
JORDAN CHARNEY as Ben Foley
CHARLES NAPIER as Morgan Carroll
RITA TAGGART as MonicaDirector of Photography - Hanania Baer
Art Director - Penny V Hadfield
Music by Arthur B Rubinstein Teleplay by Eugenie Ross Leming & Brad Buckner Story Eugenie Ross Leming & Brad Buckner & Michael Devereaux
Costumes by Joan Collins / Donfield
Edited by Erwin Dumbrille
Produced by Joel Dean / Christopher Nelson
Directed by Rod Holcomb
Cartier Rand is America's number one TV star, who appears to have everything! But appearances can be deceptive! After her menopausal assistant thrashes her Beverly Hills mansion, Cartier needs a new assistant.. Curt Taylor is released from jail, but owes prison heavy Drexler a sum of money, he can't pay.. Dexler devises a plan to break into Cartier's mansion, steal her jewellry, with Curt installed in her home, as her new gay assistant! Will Curt come up with the goods or fall for the love weapons charm? Will Cartier turn Curt into her straight man? Join in the fun and the escapades involved in The Cartier Affair!
(c) 1984 .. CBS .. 96 MINS .. COLOUR ..
The film was produced by Hasselhoff's agent Joel Dean, David accepted the role of Curt but was terrified of working with Joan, who he believed to be like her 'Dynasty' character! David recalled.
" On our first day of shooting, the only way I could overcome my nervousness was to go on the offensive.I knocked on her dressing room door and walked in carrying a bottle of champagne and a couple of glasses. I slammed the champagne down and said to Joan.
'I hear you are a bitch! But I love your work and I resepect you and I'm terrified! She just roared- Oh I like you! Sit down and pop that cork!"
COSTUME SKECH BY DONFIELD |
However it is one of the more memorable tv movies of the 80's and is a comedy that never loses it's sparkle!
(c) 2011 Mark McMorrow..
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