AUTUMN BORN
"Canadian Production.......18 Year Old Playmate Dorothy Stratten's First Film..............Dorothy Stratten as a beautiful young woman.......Bob Fosse's Star 80 ....(in which Autumn Born is alluded to under the title Wednesday's Child) .....will be all too familiar with the tragic outcome of the Stratten-Snider relationship........."
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl
Starring: Dorothy Stratten, Ihor Procak, Nate MacIntosh, Jocelyn Fournier
Rated R for Nudity
CAST
Dorothy Stratten .... Tara Dawson
Ihor Procak .... Philippe
Nate MacIntosh .... Grant Dawson
Jocelyn Fournier .... Monica Freeman
Roberta Weiss .... Melissa
Roman Buchok .... Lawyer
Sharon Elder .... Boutique owner
Ludmila Kanevski
Benjamin Esteban
Anita Durand .... Flower shop owner
Kim Elder .... Kid in boutique
Lorraine Pelletier
Robert Light .... Disco patron
Paul Sweatman
Anne Wallace
LANGUAGE......ENGLISH
SUBTITLES.......NONE
RUNNING TIME.....1 Hour 14 Minutes
PACKAGE: ....English Jacket
PICTURE QUALITY: ....Good...........
Dorothy Stratten came into the world as Dorothy Hoogstratten in Vancouver. At the tender young age of 17, Dorothy was spotted in a Canadian Dairy Queen scooping up a double serving of ice cream to one primo sleaze bag, Paul Snider. Nine years her elder, Snider spotted the beautiful service girl’s face and figure and believed he could make a fortune off of her. He was right.
Dorothy Stratten's story was brief, glorious and tragic. Born in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. She grew up in a rough neighborhood in Vancouver, but kept out of trouble and went through the motions of school. While not a beauty as a child, nor early teen, Stratten came into her own out of high school and attracted the attention of Paul Snider, a promoter and wannabe star. He started dating her and after seeing an advertisement for Playboy's 25th Anniversary Playmate search in 1978, convinced her to pose for photos. Playboy saw the potential in Stratten and flew her out to Los Angeles, where she became a candidate. Although she lost out to Candy Loving, Stratten was made a Playmate in the August, 1979 issue of Playboy. Soon after, she was pressured into marrying Snider, who had a Svengali-like influence on her. After her centerfold came out, Stratten found work in a few movies, notably Americathon and Skatetown, USA., as well as being the object of Richard Dawson's affection in an ABC-TV special shot at the Playboy mansion. Clearly, her star was on the rise. In 1980, it was revealed that Stratten would be tabbed as the Playmate of the Year by Playboy publisher and founder Hugh Hefner. While this was one of the crowning achievements of her career, things were not going well in her marriage to Snider. He bothered her on the set of the movie Galaxina and when Snider found out she was developing more than a friendly relationship with director Peter Bogdonavich, Snider grew increasingly frustrated. After a separation, Snider bought a gun and talked Stratten into coming to the apartment they used to share in West Los Angeles. Snider tied her up, sexually assaulted her and put the gun (a shotgun) next to her face and pulled the trigger. Snider then turned the gun on himself to complete the murder-suicide. Since her death, Stratten has become something of a minor cult fixture, and has had two (one a television) movies a song and a couple of books written about her. The last movie she was in, "They All Laughed, " was released after her death.
Playboy Playmate of the Month August 1979..........Playboy Playmate of the Year 1980.
In high school (c. 1974-1977) worked at the local Dairy Queen.
Dated director/actor Peter Bogdanovich...Bogdanovich married Dorothy's little sister Louise.
In the 1983 Bob Fosse film about the Stratten Tragedy, "Star 80", the murder scene was filmed at the actual apartment where young Dorothy died.
Snider hired a private detective to follow Stratten around after she moved into Peter Bogdanovich's Bel Air home.
She forged her mother's signature on the model release when she sent her nude pictures to Playboy.
Canadian rocker Bryan Adams wrote a song dedicated to Dorothy: the poignant "The Best Was Yet to Come." It appears on his 1983 album "Cuts Like a Knife."
152 ...AUTUMN BORN......DOROTHY STRATTEN 1979 Film
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