80'S FOCUS .. HER LIFE AS A MAN .. 1984 ...

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HER LIFE AS A MAN

Starring ROBYN DOUGLASS as Carly Perkins/Carl Parsons

MARC SINGER as Mark Rogers

JOAN COLLINS as Pam Dugan

ROBERT CULP as Dave Fleming

PATRICIA BARRY as Gloria Rogers

LARAINE NEWMAN as Barbara

MIRIAM FLYNN as Sheila

MARK WITHERS as Tom

LIZ TORRES as Susie

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Director of Photography - Kees Van Oostrum

  Music by John Cacavas

    Teleplay by Joanna Crawford and Diane English

       From The Village Voice article by Lynn Mithers

          Edited by Richard A Harris

             Produced by Mimi Rothman

                 Directed by Robert Ellis Miller

After Carly Perkins loses her job, she finds it hard to be taken serious as a sports journalist. After many rejections she comes up with a radical plan! What begins as a prank, soon pays off to be her key to a new career. She manages to fool her new boss, her friends and even her husband into thinking she is a man! Can Carly or should that be Carl, keep up the pretence? Will glamorous Pam Dugan get her hands on Carl? Life can be tough, when she spends Her Life As A Man!!

  (c) 1984  CBS  96 MINS COLOUR ..

Joan makes a special guest appearance in this amusing comedy drama from 1984, based on an article which appeared in The Village Voice. It stars former Playboy cover girl Robyn Douglass as a sports reporter who finds herself out of work and unable to get another job because she is a woman. Drastic measures are called for, so she decides to try her luck disguised as a man! Robyn Douglass recalled..

" It took three hours to transform myself into Carl, I then put on a pair of wing tip shoes, just before I left my trailer.. Fully dressed as Carl, I stood up and the shoes gave me a new confidence! I even wandered around LA airport in disguise! The more I was a man, the more valuable my opinions seemed to be!"

Robyn also passed the Collins test, where Joan had much experience of dealing with men! Joan commented....

" Since I'd never seen Robyn as a woman.. I tried to think of her purely as a man!"

Joan has only three scenes in the film, with three stylish costume changes .. We first see her in a trouser suit as the wealthy owner of a professional football team, who sets her sights on Carl and invites him to her penthouse for an over dinner interview.. Joan as the powerful and glamorous Pam Dugan appears in a sexy gown.. Joan was asked during a press call for the film about her characters status replied .. 

"At the top! Is there any other place to be!"

 Joan as always brings a touch of style to the proceedings, as brief as her appearance, with a strong supporting cast including tv favourites, Robert Culp and Marc Singer.. Well worth a viewing, the film was available on video in the 80's but has yet to appear on dvd...

(c) 2011 Mark McMorrow..