After seeing the object of his obsession in this film, in which she appeared in bed with a male actor, Robert John Bardo decided there and then that actress Rebecca Schaeffer should die. After getting her home address in Los Angeles, Bardo showed up on her doorstep on July 18, 1989 with a .357 Magnum revolver and confronted the young actress. After getting her autograph, Bardo wandered off but returned an hour later. He rang her doorbell and when Schaeffer responded, Bardo shot her, point blank, in the chest. She screamed "why?!" before collapsing in a pool of blood. Her murder woke Hollywood up to the dangers of stalkers towards celebrities. Bardo is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, for the murder. The Driver's Protection Privacy Act was subsequently enacted in 1994 because Bardo was able to pay a private investigator a small fee to obtain Schaeffer's address from the DMV.
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Faye Dunaway was originally cast as Clare Lipkin. In the end, the role went to Jacqueline Bisset.
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Final theatrical feature film of actor Barret Oliver. He has apparently retired from the acting profession altogether [to date, December 2022]
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Jacqueline Bisset kept her character's red dress from the opening scene and wore it again in The Last Film Festival (2016).
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Director Paul Bartel struggled to raise funding to finance this picture for around two years and considered toning down the narrative to attract the mainstream Hollywood major studios. However, when the Cinecom Entertainment Group (CEG) optioned the screenplay and green lite the production they did it without change and doctoring the more explicit and controversial story elements in the movie script.
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By what name was Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) officially released in India in English?
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