As their relationship progresses, Paul tries to convince Dorothy to pose nude to enter a Playboy 25th Anniversary playmate hunt. Paul sees Dorothy as his ticket to Hollywood. His name is Paul Snider and around town he’s known as a hustler and a pimp. See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at. Seventeen-year-old Dorothy Stratten is working at Dairy Queen in East Vancouver when a man walks in who will change her life. You can binge the series ad-free on Wondery+ or on Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription. LS 62 Global Rank TOP 0.1 ABOUT THIS PODCAST All episodes are available for free, with ad-free episodes available for Wondery+ subscribers. This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glitter pants and roller skates were all the rage, and the Playboy mansion hosted the biggest party in town.Īll episodes of Death of a Starlet are available now.
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But to the men in her life - magazine mogul Hugh Hefner, director Peter Bogdanovich, and small time hustler Paul Snider - Dorothy represented the promise of better things - a centerfold on her way to movie stardom, a muse who could help revive a dying career, and a ticket to the Hollywood dream.īut who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death?
She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade.
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