From this point, Pisier is driven to bringing Beck back to her no matter what it takes and making him hers no matter what it takes, even if it's murder. When contrivances place Sarandon and Beck in the same vicinity, they fall for each other and are married, much to Pisier's dismay. Meanwhile, Sarandon is a slightly daffy, but resourceful public relations worker who's saving herself for Mister Right. When he's shipped off, she waits for him to come back and marry her (made ever more urgent by the fact that she's knocked up), but things get off course. Unhappy with this arrangement, she flees to France where she meets up with Beck, a Canadian airman who takes her in and falls in love with her. Wasting no time in establishing the tawdry tone of the film, she is basically sold by her parents, as a youth, to a local couturier (a straight couturier?!) who is played by a hairy and repugnant Booke (soon to be famous as Boss Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazard"!) Her father passes on the sage advise, "Let the hand under your dress be one of gold" (one of many howlers in the movie's dialogue) as her stone-faced mother (Chauvin) looks on. In what's basically a lost genre by now (sexy, poolside page-turner spun into glitzy, big-screen epic), Pisier goes from an innocent, young French girl to a fabulously wealthy film actress in the course of about 8 years.
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