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      • Bob Fosse’s Star 80 is the true story of the brutal murder-suicide of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten by her sick, manipulative and controlling husband Paul Snider.
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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Star_80Star 80 - Wikipedia

    Star 80 is a 1983 American biographical drama film written and directed by Bob Fosse. It was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize -winning Village Voice article "Death of a Playmate" by Teresa Carpenter and is based on Canadian Playboy model Dorothy Stratten , who was murdered by her husband Paul Snider in 1980.

  3. Nov 14, 2016 · “Star 80” is far from genre material, though the true story it’s based on is the stuff of demented horror. Instead, it’s a terrifying and genre-less descent into the red mist of misogyny.

  4. Nov 10, 1983 · ON Aug. 14, 1980, Dorothy Stratten, a pretty, fresh- faced model from Vancouver, British Columbia, was shot to death by her estranged husband, Paul Snider, a small-time promoter, in the house...

  5. Star 80” begins with the murder. Everything else is in flashback, and, therefore, the film has no really happy scenes. Dorothy’s triumphs are all stained with our knowledge of what will happen.

  6. Aug 8, 2022 · On August 14th, Dorothy Stratten was brutally murdered by her husband, Paul Snider. Snider had successfully lured Stratten out from a Vancouver Dairy Queen with promises of fame and fortune...

  7. Oct 17, 2023 · Bob Fosse’s Star 80 is the true story of the brutal murder-suicide of Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten by her sick, manipulative and controlling husband Paul Snider.

  8. www.reverseshot.org › symposiums › entrySymposiums - Reverse Shot

    Sep 22, 2011 · Star 80 is famously based on a true story—more specially, on Teresa Carpenter's award-winning Village Voice article “Death of a Playmate,” which fleshed out a story made familiar by the headlines: nightclub promoter kills his famous, Hugh Hefner-approved girlfriend—and then himself—in a fit of sick, desperate jealousy. Parker’s ...