Dorothy Stratten

He later married her sister. Judy Tyler was buried in Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. Bogdanovich wrote a book about her titled The Killing of the Unicorn. While driving through Wyoming, they were involved in an automobile accident that claimed both their lives. Snider committed suicide shortly thereafter in the same apartment. Stratten's tragic story was portrayed in the film Star 80 (1983). After filming of the Presley movie finished, she and her second husband, Greg Lafayette, took a vacation. On August 14, 1980, her estranged husband brutally raped and murdered Stratten in her west Los Angeles apartment, apparently jealous over an affair she was having with Hollywood film director Peter Bogdanovich. Offered an opportunity in Hollywood, Judy Tyler appeared in the film Bop Girl Goes Calypso then starred opposite Elvis Presley in Jailhouse Rock.

She also appeared on television in Fantasy Island, the Cruise Ship to the Stars episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and in 1980 on The Tonight Show. Like her mother, she became a chorus line dancer but then went on to a major role in the 1955 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, "Pipe Dream." Life magazine did a story on rising Broadway talent with Tyler on the magazine's cover as one of the up-and-coming stars. Stratten appeared in five movies: non-starring role in:. Her acting career began as a teenager with appearances on the "Howdy Doody" television show, as Princess Summer Fall Winter Spring. Paul began to control her life which eventually resulted in separation and a pending divorce in August, 1980. Born Judith Mae Hess, she came from a show business family and was encouraged to study dance and acting. In June, 1979, she married Paul Snider in Las Vegas, Nevada. Judy Tyler, born October 9, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States – died July 4, 1957 near Laramie, Wyoming, was an actress.

In 1980, she became Playboy's Playmate of the Year. In 1979, she became Playboy's Miss August 1979 with a name change to Dorothy Stratten. In 1976 while working part-time in a local Dairy Queen, she met a local promoter named Paul Snider (26) who coaxed her into sending photos to Playboy. Stratten forged her mother's signature on the model release form. Dorothy Stratten (born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten) (February 28, 1960 - August 14, 1980) was born in a Salvation Army hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. She grew up and attended high school in Coquitlam.

They All Laughed (1981). Galaxina (1980). Autumn Born (1979). Americathon (1979).

Skatetown USA (1979).