Peter Bodganovich is well-known for having dated several women who he directed. Cher was his co-star in the 1985 film. “Mask,”The two fell in love, but it ended badly. The director claimed that the famous singer detested men. “That’s why she’s named Cher: She dropped her father’s name,”He said VultureIn 2019. Bogdanovich also attacked her screen abilities: “She can’t act. She won Best Actress at Cannes because I shot her very well.”
Before dating Cher, Bodganovish was in a most famous relationship with Dorothy Stratten, a Playboy model. She had previously appeared in his film “They All Laughed,”Paul Snider, her husband and possessive ex-husband, tragically killed her in a brutal murder-suicide committed in 1980. AP News. Bogdanovich never recovered fully from this terrible incident. “Her death pretty much wrecked me,”He said Vanity Fair2014 In 2014. “I just didn’t give a damn if I ever made another movie again,”He concluded.
The director fell in love with Louise Hoogstratten who was Stratten’s younger sister. Stratten married the woman in 1989. Bogdanovich later admitted that his career was hampered by life decisions. “The whole thing about my personal life got in the way of people’s understanding of the movies,”He said ABC News2020