Wondery Presents: Death of a Starlet

The MiscELENAeous Podcast with Elena Davies

YEA Networks

Tv & Film, Improv, Comedy

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. But who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death?
This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glitter pants and roller skates were all the rage, and the Playboy mansion hosted the biggest party in town.

Listen today at http://wondery.fm/Starlet_MiscElena

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0:00.0	Hi, it's me, Elena, from the Miscellaneous Podcast,
0:03.3	and if you're listening to me now,
0:05.0	then I know you love podcasts.
0:06.5	But if you enjoy true crime as much as I do,
0:08.6	or history podcasts, then Wundery has a new mini series
0:11.6	for you. It's called Death of a Starlet. It's about
0:15.3	Playboy Playmate of the Year Dorothy Stratton. In August of 1980 she was found
0:20.3	dead in the home of her estranged husband shot in the face at close
0:23.7	range and she was only 20 years old. She's the girl next door with a shy
0:28.0	smile, a whispery voice who doesn't even know her own beauty. But to Hugh
0:32.2	Hefner she was his next Marilyn Monroe. To famed
0:35.1	Hollywood film director Peter Bogdanovich, she was his dream starlet. And to her
0:39.5	husband Paul Snyder, she was his ticket to fortune and fame.
0:43.2	These three ambitious men needed her, and one of them murdered her.
0:46.8	I'm about to play you guys a brief clip from the show, but while you're listening,
0:50.2	be sure to subscribe to Death of a Starlet on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or you can actually
0:55.2	binge all six episodes right now by joining Wundry Plus in the Wundry App.
0:59.7	Wundry, feel the story.
1:01.7	Death of a Starlet by Hollywood in Crime contains depictions of violence and strong language.
1:06.9	Please be advised. It's Thursday, August 14th, 1980, 11 p.m.
1:28.0	Private Detective Mark Goldstein sits alone in his car staring at a nonddescript two-story house on a quiet street in West Los Angeles.
1:37.4	The guy who lives in the house hired him to tail his wife.
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