SUMMER STARS

It happens every year. Certain summer films give certain actors a chance to bloom. But what happens once the warm weather ends? We checked in on a decade’s worth of summer stars to see what’s happened since.

1982: LISA BLOUNT IN ‘AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN’

The role of Debra Winger’s opportunist girlfriend in “An Officer and a Gentleman” garnered Lisa Blount a Golden Globe nomination. And readers of US magazine voted her “favorite female newcomer.”

But the film wound up typecasting Blount to a certain degree. “I like doing rural women and bad people, but that character was a very specific kind, so it was hard to get people to see me in other roles.”

As it turned out, said Blount, health problems made it difficult for her to take advantage of the film’s success.

“I did a number of guest shots on TV shows,” she said, with a nod to “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” “Boone” and the first episode of “Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer.”

She also appeared in a number of films that were plagued with release problems, including “Cease Fire” (which starred Don Johnson and got limited release), the yet-unseen “Radioactive Dreams” and “Cut and Run,” an Italian gore picture that was made in Venezuela. “My mom says it’s just been released in Arkansas,” said Blount.

Blount also did an episode of the HBO’s series “The Hitchhiker” and was seen in a recent episode of “Moonlighting” and the TV movie “Annihilator.” “Annihilator.” She’s currently at work on the science-fiction film “Night Flyer,” directed by Robert Collector.

“I’ve been enjoying my work and getting a lot of it,” said Blount. “I’m getting on with my life.”