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Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold

  • TV Movie
  • 19781978
  • 1h 38m
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5.2/10
209
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Katie: Portrait of a Centerfold (1978)
Drama
A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.A naive Texas beauty queen, seeking Hollywood stardom, quickly learns the realities of the business after attending an unethical modeling school.
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
209
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    • Robert Greenwald
    • Nancy Audley
  • Stars
    • Kim Basinger
    • Vivian Blaine
    • Fabian
    • Robert Greenwald
    • Nancy Audley
  • Stars
    • Kim Basinger
    • Vivian Blaine
    • Fabian
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    • 4User reviews
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    Kim Basinger
    Kim Basinger
    • Katie McEvera
    Vivian Blaine
    Vivian Blaine
    • Marietta Cutler
    Fabian
    Fabian
    • Emcee
    Tab Hunter
    Tab Hunter
    • Elliot Bender
    Don Johnson
    Don Johnson
    • Gunther
    Virginia Kaiser
    • Deborah Pintoff
    Dorothy Malone
    Dorothy Malone
    • Myrtle Cutler
    Nan Martin
    Nan Martin
    • Aunt Isabel
    Melanie Mayron
    Melanie Mayron
    • Madelaine
    Terri Nunn
    Terri Nunn
    • Cindy Holland
    Don Stroud
    Don Stroud
    • Sullie Toulours
    Glynn Turman
    Glynn Turman
    • Preston de Cordiva
    Beau Gordon
    • Joshua Holland
    James Crittenden
    James Crittenden
    • Taylor
    Janet Wood
    Janet Wood
    • Blaze Adams
    Dick Dinman
    Dick Dinman
    • Frank
    Victor Eschbach
    • Cabbie
    Ron Prince
    • Mr. Anderson
      • Robert Greenwald
      • Nancy Audley
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    • Trivia
      Kim Basinger plays a woman who models for a Playboy-like magazine. Three years after this film, she would actually model for Playboy, although the photographs weren't published until 1983, around the time she appeared in the James Bond film, "Never Say Never Again."

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    7/10
    A little more than the typical, TV-movie-of-the-week
    I remember this one from when I was in high school. I remember Kim Basinger with that Texas drawl. I also remember Melanie Mayron, who I believe played a photographer. Pretty typical story about a young woman who poses for a playboy-like magazine and ends up leaving the town she was raised in because of all the trouble her photograph created for her and her family. She ends up in Hollywood, chasing a dream of becoming an actress, and of course, things don't work out as she had hoped. I remember another character -- they all end up in a Hollywood apartment as roommates, of which Melanie Mayron was one. There was a particular character in this TV-movie who was young, had a child, and was willing to go to certain lengths to become famous whereas Basinger's character would not cross that line. I'm sure this TV-movie is pretty dated now (it is nearly 30 years old) and will probably never be released on DVD but I remember it clearly. It has stayed with me all this time, particularly the end.
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    • Nov 5, 2007

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      • October 23, 1978 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Warner Bros. Television
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    • 1 hour 38 minutes
      • Color
      • Mono

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