The Passions of Peter Bogdanovich. She was, director Peter Bogdanovich would admit, an obsession. Blond, delicately featured, a Playboy Playmate of the Year, Dorothy Stratten was so beautiful she seemed luminescent, as if lit from within.

A year after he first met her in 1. Bogdanovich cast her in a movie and, though she was married, they soon became lovers. I could hardly believe that she really existed, that she wasn’t a dream,” he later said of their affair. There was something miraculous about Dorothy Stratten.”In just five months, however, the director’s dream became a nightmare: Dorothy’s estranged husband, crazed by her decision to leave him and marry Bogdanovich, raped her, killed her with a point- blank shotgun blast to the head, and then killed himself. Her murder left Bogdanovich desolate, devastated.

I haven’t been dating,” he said, 1. Dorothy’s murder. I’m a widower. I don’t know if I can ever love as totally and completely as I loved Dorothy.” He gave up making movies to write a book about her death, and he became devoted to Dorothy’s mother, Nelly, and her 1. Louise. Too devoted, some said. He sent Louise, an insecure, pudgy girl with none of her sister’s delicate features, to a private school and to modeling classes.

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He bought her a baby grand piano and took her along on trips to Paris and Hawaii. He gave her a gold- and- diamond necklace and, when she graduated from high school, a Pontiac Trans Am. In 1. 98. 6, he gave her a movie role. Two weeks ago, Bogdanovich married Louise, now 2. Vancouver, renewing speculation about just when his interest in the girl became more than that of a close family friend—and about just what it had become. Skeptics suggested that Louise’s motivation had a practical side; her marriage to Bogdanovich would solve a chronic problem she’d had coming from her native Canada to work in the States. Those who know the couple discounted that—and saw in the relationship an eerie reprise of the director’s intense love for Louise’s sister, Dorothy.

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When allegations of a romantic attachment between Bogdanovich and Louise first surfaced in 1. Louise and her mother. The suit was later dropped.) Some of those who know Bogdanovich best expressed little surprise at the marriage.

Polly Platt, Bogdanovich’s first wife and mother of his two daughters—who were friendly with Louise during her frequent sojourns in L. A.—says the pair “had been together for a long time.”But Louise’s mother, hearing of the marriage at her home in Vancouver, was distraught. I feel he wants her because of a guilt trip,” she said. This happened to my other daughter, who got her head shot off, and it’s gonna happen to this one. He didn’t do it, but he was involved. If he is in love with one daughter, how can he be in love with the other daughter?”The answer to that question may lie in Hollywood’s peculiar tendency to mix fact and fantasy. Bogdanovich has long been known for blurring his professional and personal lives.

He fell in love with his leading ladies, and tried to make his lovers into stars. He had been married for seven years to screenwriter and producer Polly (Pretty Baby) Platt when he saw Cybill Shepherd’s picture on the cover of Glamour. Cybill was 2. 0 when Bogdanovich cast her in The Last Picture Show, the movie that made both their reputations. He soon left Polly and his two young daughters, Antonia and Alexandra, then toddlers, to move in with Shepherd. But their next two projects together, Daisy Miller and the musical At Long Last Love, convinced critics that the talented Bogdanovich was blinded by love. Shepherd was miscast, the movies were leaden, and both their careers were set back by the liaison.

In 1. 97. 8, Shepherd and Bogdanovich broke up. At about that time, Dorothy Stratten, whose sweet temper belied a difficult childhood in Vancouver, was taking her first steps toward Hollywood. Her mother, Nelly Hoogstraten, had been twice married and divorced and often had to rely on welfare while raising her three children. John, the second child, was one year younger than Dorothy, and Louise, the baby, was the product of the second marriage.) Nelly trained as a practical nurse, but decent- paying jobs were scarce. When I met Nelly [in 1. Christine Fisher Koenders, whose daughter Julie was about the same age as Louise. Watch Female Fight Club Online Forbes on this page.

They were living in a tiny postage stamp of a house near an amusement park in Vancouver. One Outs Episode 26 on this page. It was a harsh environment. Dorothy was a beautiful girl, and her personality was even nicer. Nelly was worried that Dorothy was going down to Hollywood, but Dorothy kept telling her she was okay.”Still, Dorothy’s friends were concerned about her association with Paul Snider. A small- time local photographer whose burning ambition was to crack Playboy, he bullied Dorothy, then working at a Dairy Queen, into posing for nude photographs. He peddled them to the magazine, then took his prize to L. A. in the summer of 1.

The next year, he persuaded Dorothy to marry him. Shortly afterward she was selected Playmate of the Year. Around the same time, Bogdanovich ran into Stratten for the second time at the Playboy mansion. Smitten by her beauty, he struck up a conversation and soon got in touch again to offer her a small role in his new movie, They All Laughed.

By the summer of 1. Bel Air home. Early in their romance, Bogdanovich presented Dorothy with a little unicorn pin because, he said, her “purity and grace” reminded him of that mythical creature. Dorothy began collecting unicorns. In May 1. 98. 0, she went home for her mother’s third marriage, to Burl Eldridge. Elizabeth Norris, director of communications for Playboy Enterprises, went along and was struck by the way 1. Louise “absolutely worshipped Dorothy, and Dorothy adored her little sister.”She noticed something else.

At the wedding reception, Louise sat on Burl’s lap and held his hand most of the time. I felt that she was a little girl who had never had a father figure and was desperate for one…. In fact, they were all hungry for attention—all vulnerable—Louise, Dorothy, Nelly.”Later that summer, Louise, who was about the same age as Bogdanovich’s daughters, went to Hollywood to visit her sister. Her letters to a friend back home were excited, if full of misspellings.

We went to the Mohobby Desert and while we were down there we saw 1. I have a grate tan and at Dorothy’s place I have my own room, push button telephone, my own bathroom, a pool and a movie porjecter.”On Aug. Stratten failed to return from a meeting with her estranged husband. Police later determined that Snider had put Dorothy into a bondage machine of his own design and raped her before killing her with a 1.

He then turned the gun on himself. Bogdanovich got the news that evening from Hugh Hefner. I screamed,” he writes in his book.

On the floor I curled into a ball.” He could not face telling Louise.“He told her Dorothy had to go to New York on a business trip and Louise would have to go home to Vancouver,” says her friend Julie Fisher. She didn’t know what was going on. Then one day she asked me, ‘Why can’t we watch television? Why can’t we go out like we used to?’“I asked her, ‘Do you want the truth or a lie?’ Then I told her, ‘Paul killed Dorothy.’ She stayed in her mom’s bedroom for two days. Dorothy and Louise were so close. It hurt a lot.” At the Banting junior high school, where Louise was entering eighth grade, a friend says she was “stared at like a freak.” Ravaged by grief, Nelly refused to talk about the murder with anyone—even her daughter.

We could always tell when Nelly had been in Louise’s room because all the pictures of Dorothy would be turned facedown on the tables,” says Julie. She didn’t have any around in the rest of the house either.”There were other family problems as well. According to Christine Koenders, brother John had entered into a disastrous marriage with a woman later convicted of robbery; Eldridge’s two sons were giving Nelly trouble; Burl was rarely at home; and Nelly’s marriage was failing.