Sunday, January 22, 2017

STAR 80

STAR 80 - While working at Dairy Queen, Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten met Paul Snider. He took photographs and sent them to Playboy magazine. The camera loved her fresh faced innocence, she was on her way to becoming a star. She moved to LA, changed her name to Dorothy Stratten and started working as a bunny. The pair married the same year. Soon she was Playboy's Playmate of the Month, and quickly after that, Playmate of the Year. Hugh Hefner secured several guest starring roles in TV and movies for her. Sensing trouble, Hef encouraged her to cut ties with Snider. Her ex felt as if he was losing her. He began to have a private investigator follow her around LA when they separated. After trying to reach Snider for hours he broke into his bedroom and discovered two bodies. Police determined he murdered her, raped her and shot himself. Dorothy was only 20 years old when she died. Her lover at the time, Peter Bogdanovich, was making a movie with her which he struggled to finish. He wrote a book, titled The Killing of the Unicorn. Stratten's rise and fall was depicted in the 1983 film entitled Star 80.


















3 comments:

  1. That brings back a lot of memories. The 70s were an amazing era.

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  2. Interesting but she needed to work a little on that smile. The Playboy cover and the picture below it look slightly unnatural.

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  3. Fame and jealousy can be equally diifcult monsters to tame.

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