Dorothy Stratten
Dorothy Stratten , of its true name Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten (February 28th 1960 - August 14th 1980), was an actress and model originating in Vancouver in Colombia-British or it had been born in a hospital from the Salvation Army.
It there grows and made higher learning with Coquitlam. She worked part-time in a fast-food of the chain Dairy Queen when she was noticed by a young 26 years local business manager named Paul Snider. This one persuaded it to send its photographs to the magazine Playboy . Dorothy imitated the signature of his/her mother on the contract of service as a Playmate. In 1979 it was miss August under the pseudonym Dorothy Stratten and the following year, it was elected Playmate of the year 1980.
She had married Paul Snider in June 1979 in Las Vegas. Her husband wanted to keep control on his career, which it had launched, but Dorothy could not support its jealousy: they separated and started a divorce procedure as of the month of August 1980.
Dorothy held of the small roles in five films: Skatetown the USA (1979), Americathon (1979), Fall Born (1979), Galaxina (1980) and And everyone laughed ( They All Laughed ) (1981). It on television carried out also tests, in the fantastic Island ( Fantasy Island ), in an episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century ( Croisière towards the stars ) and, in 1980 in The Tonight Show .
August 14th, 1980, insane of jealousy because of supposed connection of Dorothy with the producer of cinema Peter Bogdanovich, Paul Snider found it in his apartment of Los Angeles and killed it after having violated it. It committed suicide then in the same apartment.
The tragic history of Dorothy Stratten became the scenario of the film Star 80 in 1983 - its role is held there by Mariel Hemingway - and inspired Bogdanovich which wrote the entitled book The Killing off the Unicorn ( the Murder of the unicorn ). Some time afterwards, he married his sister.
Catalog of films
After its passage in Playboy , Dorothy Stratten began a career of actress and played in 5 films before dying.- Skatetown the USA (1979)
- Americathon (1979)
- Fall Born (1979)
- Galaxina (1980) - its only main role
- And everyone laughed (They All Laughed) (1981) - left after its death
It also appeared several times on television American.
External bonds
- Dorothy Stratten on Internet Movie Database
- Dorothy Stratten Remember homepage
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