Paper Dolls
| Paper Dolls | |
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| Genre | Soap opera |
| Written by | Stephen Black Jill Gordon Jennifer Miller Don Roos Henry Stern |
| Directed by | Edward Parone Leo Penn Arthur Allan Seidelman Ralph Senensky |
| Starring |
Lloyd Bridges Jennifer Warren Brenda Vaccaro Dack Rambo Mimi Rogers Richard Beymer Anne Schedeen John Bennett Perry Nancy Olson Nicollette Sheridan Terry Farrell Lauren Hutton Morgan Fairchild |
| Theme music composer |
Mark Snow Andy Summers |
| Composer(s) | Mark Snow |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 14 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Leonard Goldberg |
| Producer(s) | John Ziffren |
| Cinematography | John C. Flinn III |
| Editor(s) | Jack Harnish |
| Running time | 45–48 min |
| Production company(s) | Mandy Films MGM/UA Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | September 23 – December 25, 1984 |
Paper Dolls is an American prime time soap opera which aired for 14 episodes on ABC from September 23, 1984 to December 25, 1984. Set in New York's fashion industry, the show centered on top modeling agency owner Racine (Morgan Fairchild), her conflicts with the family of cosmetics tycoon Grant Harper (Lloyd Bridges), and the careers of two teenage models (Terry Farrell and Nicollette Sheridan). The series was based on a 1982 TV movie of the same name.
Prior to the TV series, a TV movie had been made and shown in 1982. The TV movie was based more around modeling than the fashion industry, and featured Joan Collins, Daryl Hannah and Alexandra Paul in the roles that would be taken by Fairchild, Sheridan and Farrell in the series (Jennifer Warren and Jeffrey Richman were the only two actors to appear in both the TV movie and the 1984 series). The movie's theme song was "Paper Doll", written by Mark Snow and performed by Brock Walsh.
The movie's theme song was "Paper Doll" written by Mark Snow, Kathy Kurasch and Lauren Wood (and performed by Wood).
In 1984, MGM decided to produce a weekly series based on the TV movie for ABC, recasting several of the original roles from the 1982 production. Racine (Morgan Fairchild) was the owner of a prestigious Manhattan modeling agency and was frequently at odds with Grant Harper (Lloyd Bridges), who helmed the board of Harper Cosmetics, a division of his family's corporation, Harper WorldWide Incorporated. Grant was well-meaning but he could be relentless and stubborn in getting his own way with business and his family. Playing both sides was Grant's son Wesley (Dack Rambo) who thirsted for more power in the family business and allied himself romantically with Racine. (Wesley also resented his father, whom he blamed for the accidental death of his mother, Grant's first wife, Virginia.) Grant was then married to his second wife, Marjorie (Nancy Olson).
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