Dorothy Stratten

He later married her sister. Was married to trumpeter Miles Davis (1981-1988). Bogdanovich wrote a book about her titled The Killing of the Unicorn. Tyson co-founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Snider committed suicide shortly thereafter in the same apartment. Stratten's tragic story was portrayed in the film Star 80 (1983). Other acclaimed television roles included Roots, King, in which she played Coretta Scott King, The Marva Collins Story, When No One Would Listen and Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (for which she won another Emmy). She is going to be in the movie "Because of Winn-Dixie". 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. In 1974 she won two Emmy Awards for The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, and became a star.

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. In 1972, she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Sounder. Stratten appeared in five movies: non-starring role in:. In 1967, she appeared in The Comedians, and the following year, had a featured role in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Paul began to control her life which eventually resulted in separation and a pending divorce in August, 1980. Her first film was an uncredited role in Carib Gold in 1957, but she went on to do television - the celebrated series East Side/West Side and the soap opera Guiding Light. In June, 1979, she married Paul Snider in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was discovered by a photographer for Ebony magazine, and became a popular fashion model.

In 1980, she became Playboy's Playmate of the Year. Her parents came from the island of Nevis, but Cicely was born and raised in Harlem, New York City. In 1979, she became Playboy's Miss August 1979 with a name change to Dorothy Stratten. Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an award-winning African-American actress. 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).