Stratten was born in a Salvation Army hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia.
The couple's relationship quickly deteriorated, as Snider became prone to fits of jealousy and bizarre, controlling behavior; he constantly took credit for Stratten's fame, stating that he was the reason for her success, and repeatedly attempted to usurp her fame when in the presence of celebrities.
DorothyStratten was murdered by her husband Paul Snider only months after she was named the 1980Playboy Playmate of the Year.
Stratten also landed a co-starring role in the Peter Bogdanovich film They All Laughed (released in 1981); at the time of her death she was estranged from Snider and romantically involved with Bogdanovich.
Stratten's story was told in the TV movie Death of a Centerfold (1981) and in Star 80 (1983), director Bob Fosse's last film.
DorothyStratten was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Dorothy's high school teachers and friends at Coquitlam's Centennial High School recalled her as a good student, rather pretty but tall, quiet, and very shy.
Stratten was laying face down on the end of Snider's waterbed, the side of her face and one of her fingers blown off by a 12 gauge shotgun blast.
DorothyStratten, Vancouver, B.C. Vancouver, B.C.: It was a city built on railroads, mining, timber--turn of the century fortunes made by Canadian business barons whose Victorian mansions faced the snow capped peaks of Mount Seymour.
A year later, renamed DorothyStratten, she was a Playmate, living at the L.A. mansion.
Then, in 1980, DorothyStratten was brutally murdered by the promoter whom she had married.
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DorothyStratten had been born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she grew up and where, had she been...
DorothyStratten (DOROTHY RUTH HOOGSTRATEN) Born February 28, 1960 Died August 14, 1980 The Unicorn.
Mariel's mams were expanded from a pert thirty-two to a plump thirty-six inches for her role as former Playboy bunny DorothyStratten in Star 80 (1983).
The Actor agrees to pay to the Agent as commissions a sum equal to ten (10) per cent of all moneys or other consideration received by the Actor...." Promoter Paul Snider was dating 18-year-old DorothyStratten and after seeing an advertisement for "Playboy's" 25th Anniversary Playmate in 1978, convinced her to pose for photos.
Born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten, DorothyStratten showed no real signs of her later beauty when she was growing up in a fairly tough part of Vancouver, British Columbia.
While she lost out to Candy Loving, Stratten became a Playmate in the August, 1979 issue of Playboy and Snider turned on his charm convincing her to marry him.
From evidence gathered later it is believed Snider tied Stratten up, sexually assaulted her, and then put the shotgun next to her face and pulled the trigger.
It doesn't get any more special or unique than this, Dorothy's own personal appointment book detailing her life and activities in L.A. as a Playboy model and hopeful star.
A cool picture of Dorothy with the band Prism which wrote a tribute song to her called Cover Girl.
Death of a Centerfold: The DorothyStratten Story is a surfacy TV-movie rehash of the same real-life events which inspired the 1980 theatrical feature Star 80.
Jamie Lee Curtis stars as DorothyStratten, here depicted as an ingenuous, highly vulnerable Canadian girl who aspires to show business stardom.
Dorothy tries to make a clean break from Snyder, which culminates in tragedy.
For DorothyStratten, Playboy Playmate, refer to the article DorothyStratten.
Dorothy Constance Stratton (March 24, 1899, Brookfield, Missouri - September 17, 2006, West Lafayette, Indiana) was the director of the SPARS, the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve during World War II.
She graduated from Ottawa University in 1920 and received her Master's degree from the University of Chicago.
I knew nothing about it, but saw the title, that it was the only film role for Playboy Playmate of the Year [whatever year] DorothyStratten, and that it was put out by Rhino, so I hauled off and bought it.
She is pretty and has a great body, showcased throughout, but it seems odd for a movie which seems to exist mostly to highlight her and her charms, that she remains fully covered throughout and doesn’t really even do much that’s outwardly sexy.
Stratten is the subject of Bob Fosse’s Star 80, which is now comfortably ensconced in my rental list.
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The film is best known for being the last screen appearance of rising-starlet DorothyStratten, the beautiful 20-year-old Playboy model who was brutally murdered by her estranged husband shortly after this film premiered.
Unless you are absolutely obsessed with Dorothy Stratton or you have some weird need to collect every bad science fiction movie ever made, avoid this like the plague.
Galaxina(Dorothy R Stratten) is a female robot which leds in the Eternity Police starship.
In 1976, while working part-time in a local Dairy Queen, she met a Vancouver-area promoter named Paul Snider (then 26), who coaxed her into sending photos to Playboy.
Stratten's tragic story was portrayed in Bob Fosse's 1983 film Star 80 starring Mariel Hemingway (Stratten) and Eric Roberts (Snider).
"E! True Hollywood Story" Dorothy Stratten (2000)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Finally tells the true story that the movie Star 80 did not.
Excellent recent interviews with Peter Bogdanovich and Dorothy's sister Louise.
(Peter was Dorothy's lover when she was murdered and he married Louise 8 years after Dorothy's death.) The documentary was recently updated with news about Peter and Louise's divorce.