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Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story (1981) (TV)
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Donald L. Stewart (writer)
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1 November 1981 (USA)
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The life and death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten. full summary | add synopsis
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Not too shabby
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jamie Lee Curtis | ... | Dorothy Stratten |
 | Bruce Weitz | ... | Paul Snider |
| Robert Reed | ... | David Palmer |
 | Mitch Ryan | ... | Hugh Hefner |
| Tracy Reed | ... | Mindy |
| Bibi Besch | ... | Hilda Flushing |
| Mark Withers | ... | Billy Compton |
| Hugh Gillin | ... | Max Halloran |
 | Gloria Gifford | ... | Jean |
| Karlene Crockett | ... | Anna |
| Steven Hirsch | ... | Sherm |
 | Luca Bercovici | ... | Pooch |
| Jim Boeke | ... | Lyman |
| Linda Brooks | ... | Model #1 |
 | Kale Browne | ... | Sidney |
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100 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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This was not only the first I'd heard about the whole Dorothy Stratten story (I was a young teen when this movie first came out), and it was also the first time I'd seen Jamie Lee Curtis in any movie (somehow I avoided seeing "Hallowe'en" until the late 'Eighties).
It's a biopic about Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten, from her life in small town ... Washington? Oregon? ... to her rise to fame as a nude model, and her turbulent relationship with her psychotic husband. They divorced, she tried to keep away from him; her husband finally killed her and committed suicide.
I seem to remember that the movie was very engaging; maybe it's just that I thought JLC was a hottie. Anyway, I thought it was really well-acted and pretty straightforward; looking back on it now, I can see that it wasn't too horribly sensationalized, an aspect of another biopic of her ("Star 80") that really turned me off.