Known for:	Galaxina, Autumn Born, They All Laughed
Birth name:	Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten
Birthday:	28 February 1960, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height:	5' 9" (1.75 m)
Available Photos	17
Video Clips	9

Playboy Playmate of the Month August 1979. Playboy Playmate of the Year 1980. Murdered by husband, Paul Snider. Interred at Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, California, USA, Section D, #170. In high school (c. 1974-1977), she worked at the local Dairy Queen in Vancouver, British Columbia. 2109 East Hastings Street. Dated director/actor Peter Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich married Dorothy's little sister Louise Stratten. Has become a minor cult figure with a few movies made about her life and even a song written about her. The song written in Dorothy's honor is "Cover Girl" by Prism. In the 1983 Bob Fosse film about the Stratten Tragedy, 'Star 80 (1983)' the murder scene was filmed at the actual apartment where young Dorothy died. Born in a Salvation Army hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. Snider hired a private detective to follow Stratten around after she moved into Peter Bogdanovich's Bel Air home. On Stratten's Playmate data sheet, she listed her major turnoff as "jealous people." Measurements: 36-26-36 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine) Graduated from Centennial High School in Coquitlam, B.C. in 1978 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." Her tombstone features a quote from Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms." Ironically, Hemingway's granddaughter Mariel portrayed her in Bob Fosse's 'Star 80 (1983)' . Grew up in the East Hastings area in Vancouver, British Columbia. Is buried 2 1/2 miles away from the Playboy Mansion Is portrayed by Jamie Lee Curtis in Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story

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