A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
April 6, 1986
Original Title:
Beverly Hills Madam
Genres:
Drama | TV Movie
Production Companies:
NBC
Orion Television
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 97
A bordello catering to rich and wealthy clients, run by Lil Hutton experiences a series of crises as one girl ends up pregnant, and another dead. As a subplot, a young woman, Julie Taylor, makes a trip to LA to surprise a friend, but never finds her. Julie is mugged, and seeks help from Lil Hutton. She sees how much the prostitutes are making, and is tempted into the lifestyle. On her first "job" is hired by a rich father for his 18-year old virgin son as a birthday gift, and they fall in love. But the relationship comes to a quick end as soon as the son learns she is a "whore"; Julie breaks down and runs off after realizing prostitution is a cold and loveless occupation that cannot fulfill her emotional emptiness.
Art Direction:
Beala Neel
Casting:
Mary Ann Barton
Diane Dimeo
Costume Supervisor:
Diana Reynolds
Director:
Harvey Hart
Director of Photography:
Isidore Mankofsky
Editor:
Michael F. Anderson
George Jay Nicholson
Executive Producer:
Nancy Sackett
Music Editor:
Susan Mick
Original Music Composer:
Lalo Schifrin
Producer:
Everett Chambers
Script Editor:
Cynnie Troup
Set Decoration:
Cheryal Kearney
Writer:
Nancy Sackett
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.