Dorothy Stratten

…was perhaps best remembered for Dorothy Stratten, who was murdered by her estranged husband shortly after filming ended. Stratten had been having an affair with Bogdanovich, and he later wrote The Killing of the Unicorn (1984), a biography about her.

…80 (1983), a biopic of Dorothy Stratten, a Playboy magazine model whose nascent acting career ended when her husband, Paul Snider, brutally murdered her after she left him and began an affair with film director Peter Bogdanovich. Although some argued that Mariel Hemingway was miscast as Stratten, Eric Roberts was…