Mayflower Madam (1987)

A young socialite (Candice Bergen) with roots going all the way back to the original Mayflower descendants is in a financial crisis after being fired from her job as a buyer for a department store. Reduced to answering the telephones for a sleazy escort (that's a euphemism) service, she decides to begin her own service catering to a prestige clientele. Based on the autobiographical memoir by Sydney Biddle Barrows and directed by actor turned director Lou Antonio. It's not an especially good movie but the story of a Manhattan socialite running a high class call girl business is just too fascinating not to be interesting. As Barrows, Candice Bergen fits the part to the manor born which brings a strong sense of authority to the project. There's not much you can say about a telefilm like this. It is what it is and accomplishes what it sets out to do. Whether or it was worth doing in the first place is another question. With Chris Sarandon, Chita Rivera and Caitlin Clarke (DRAGONSLAYER).