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1. #Death of a starlet movie#
2. #Death of a starlet professional#
3. #Death of a starlet series#
4. #Death of a starlet tv#

With several months of filming left to be completed in New York, this was the last time that she would live with Snider in their Los Angeles-area home. In April, Stratten briefly returned to California to prepare for her upcoming introduction as the new Playmate of the Year and follow-on publicity tour. Stratten and Bogdanovich consummated their affair on the day after her arrival in New York. Stratten convinced Snider to remain in Los Angeles after explaining that the director had decided to close the set of his new film to all but the cast and immediate crew. As the spring of 1980 approached, Snider insisted on accompanying his wife to New York for the shoot for They All Laughed, but Stratten recognized the problems he could cause on set and wanted the freedom to pursue her relationship with Bogdanovich. However, Snider's near-constant presence, as well as his criticism of and almost daily arguments with his wife, caused Stratten so much stress that her co-workers at Playboy and the Galaxina set took notice of the tension in the relationship. With all her work close to home, Snider assumed the role of his wife's chauffeur, as well as her ersatz manager and acting coach. Stratten had spent the first two and a half months of 1980 completing her Playmate of the Year shoot and making her previous movie, Galaxina, in southern California. Stratten and Bogdanovich began an affair during the production. Bogdanovich, who also wrote the screenplay, said in an interview that he had based the backstory of Stratten's character on what he had learned about her marriage to Snider.

#Death of a starlet movie#

Laughed would be Stratten's fifth movie in a career that had only begun the year before and represented her first substantial role in a big-budget picture, playing the unhappily-married love interest of John Ritter, one of the film's stars. On March 22, 1980, Stratten flew to New York City to begin work on what became her last film project, They All Laughed (1981), a romantic comedy being directed by Peter Bogdanovich. Several contemporary playmates including Pamela Bryant, Gail Stanton and Marcy Hanson befriended Stratten and protected her from some of Hefner's friends, whom they considered to be sexual predators. Hefner reportedly encouraged Stratten to sever ties with Snider, calling him a "hustler and a pimp." Rosanne Katon and other friends warned Stratten about Snider's behavior. Also that year, she had small roles in the films Americathon, the roller disco comedy Skatetown, U.S.A., and a lead role in the exploitation film Autumn Born, all released in 1979.

#Death of a starlet series#

She featured in episodes of the television series Buck Rogers and Fantasy Island in 1979. Hugh Hefner had high hopes that Stratten could have meaningful crossover success as an actress.

With her surname shortened to Stratten, she became Playboy's Miss August 1979 and began working as a bunny at the Playboy Club in Century City, Los Angeles. Snider joined her in October, and they married in June the following year. In August 1978, Stratten moved to Los Angeles, California, United States, where she was chosen as a finalist for the 25th Anniversary Great Playmate Hunt. She was under the age of 19 (the legal age of majority in British Columbia), so she had to persuade her mother to sign the model release form.

#Death of a starlet professional#

Snider later had a photographer take professional nude photos of Stratten which were sent to Playboy magazine in the summer of 1978. Concurrently, she was working part-time at a local Dairy Queen, where she met 26-year-old Vancouver-area club promoter and pimp Paul Snider, who began dating her. In 1977, Stratten was attending Centennial High School in Coquitlam. In 1961, her brother John Arthur was born her sister Louise followed in May 1968.

#Death of a starlet tv#

Stratten's death inspired two motion pictures, the 1981 TV movie Death of a Centerfold and the 1983 theatrical release Star 80, as well as the book The Killing of the Unicorn and the songs " Californication" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, "The Best Was Yet to Come" by Bryan Adams, and "Cover Girl" by Prism.ĭorothy Stratten was born in Grace Maternity Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on February 28, 1960, to Simon and Nelly Hoogstraten, who had emigrated from the Netherlands. She was murdered shortly after starring in the movie Galaxina at the age of 20 by her estranged husband and manager Paul Snider, who committed suicide on the same day. Stratten was the Playboy Playmate of the Month for August 1979 and Playmate of the Year in 1980, and appeared in three comedy films and in at least two episodes of shows broadcast on American network television. Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten (Febru– August 14, 1980), known professionally as Dorothy Stratten, was a Canadian Playboy Playmate and actress.