STAR 80 (1983) (MOD)

STAR 80 (1983) (MOD)Dorothy Stratten will be America's dream girl, the Playmate of the Year. But the camera snapping her beauty doesn`t capture the whole story. Out of View is Paul Snider, the man who steered Dorothy to stardom and finally killed her. Bob Fosse's Star 80 is their spellbinding true story. In the leads, Mariel Hemingway and Eric Roberts deliver haunting performances. In his films (Cabaret, Lenny, All That jazz), Fosse unblinkingly explored lurid subworlds

the leader of an outlaw gang

The story of a woman posing as a younger person in order to turn events to her liking had already worked well for Katharine Hepburn in Quality Street and Ginger Rogers in The Major and the Minor when June Allyson delivered a Golden Globe®-winning* Best Actress portrayal in this 1951 rom-com scripted by the Father of the Bride team of Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

This comedy starring Natalie Wood

Raised by their Bible-obsessed

But of course

three forceful men seek to use it as a springboard to the governorship

Marion Davies demonstrates her dramatic skills in a sumptuously appointed melodrama pairing her with Leslie Howard

The passion of their conflict becomes a love neither can succumb to

Ted Healy may have been the nominal headliner

Adapting a novel she wrote before her "Alphabet Series" of detective novels

Concerned when his son indulges in something forbidden by his faith

a middle-aged bumbler (Hugh Herbert) must marry a widow in three days or lose his inheritance