Doris Wishman

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Doris Wishman (born June 1, 1912 in New York City , New York , † August 10, 2002 in Miami , Florida ) was an American film director , screenwriter and film producer . Her work can mainly be assigned to the sexploitation film .

Life

Doris Wishman was born in Manhattan in 1912 . Since she wanted to hide her age, different dates of birth are circulating. She lost her mother early, and the father moved her and her five siblings to Westchester County . Her cousin was the film producer Max Rosenberg .

After graduating from school, she took acting classes and later studied at Hunter College . She then worked as a secretary for Joseph E. Levines Film Distribution. She married the recruiter Jack Abrahms and moved with him to Floria. However, her husband died of a heart attack in 1958 at the age of only 31.

Wishman moved back to New York City. In search of a new endeavor in life, she decided to produce and distribute films about nudists . Wishman was mostly not only responsible for directing the film, but also for the script, production, casting and editing. In the mid-1960s, she began making her first sexploitation films . In the 1970s, the films Devilish Breasts and A Super Hot Thing were made , both with Chesty Morgan in the lead role. Then Wishman turned to other genres and shot a horror film with A Night to Dismember . Her last film Each Time I Kill from 2007 can also be assigned to this genre.

Although Wishman herself was critical of her work ("I don't really like my movies. Some of those actors were so ugly. I felt, if I had the money, I could have done better."), Enjoy their films under sexploitation- Fans cult status . In 1998, the Nuart Theater in Los Angeles showed the retrospective Doris Wishman: Queen of Sexploitation in her presence .

In 1966 Wishman had remarried; the marriage remained childless and ended in divorce in the mid-1970s. Wishman had lived in Coral Gables , Florida since the late 1980s , where she worked in a lingerie store . She died in August 2002 of complications from cancer, leaving behind her sister Pearl Kushner, who had often supported her film projects financially.

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1960: Hideout in the Sun
  • 1961: Diary of a Nudist
  • 1961: Nude on the Moon
  • 1962: Blaze Starr Goes Nudist
  • 1963: Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls
  • 1963: Playgirls International
  • 1964: Behind the Nudist Curtain
  • 1965: The Prince and the Nature Girl
  • 1965: The Sex Perils of Paulette
  • 1965: Bad Girls Go to Hell
  • 1966: Another Day, Another Man
  • 1966: My Brother's Wife
  • 1967: A Taste of Flesh
  • 1968: Indecent Desires
  • 1968: Too Much Too Often!
  • 1970: The Amazing Transplant
  • 1971: Love Toy
  • 1972: Keyholes Are for Peeping
  • 1973: Devilish Breasts (Deadly Weapons)
  • 1974: A Super Hot Thing (Double Agent 73)
  • 1975: The Immoral Three
  • 1975: Satan Was a Lady
  • 1976: Come with Me My Love
  • 1977: Let Me Die a Woman
  • 1983: A Night to Dismember
  • 1993: To Live and Shave in LA: Spatters of a Royal Sperm
  • 2001: Satan Was a Lady
  • 2002: Dildo Heaven
  • 2007: Each Time I Kill

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Myrna Oliver: Doris Wishman; Exploitation Film Director, Cult Favorite . In: Los Angeles Times , Aug. 21, 2002, page B12, digitized from newspapers.com.
  2. ↑ a b Christopher J. Jarmick: Doris Wishman: Remembering the grand dame of American sexploitation films . In: sensesofcinema.com from October 2002.
  3. ↑ a b c Douglas Martin: Doris Wishman, 'B' Film Director, Dies . In: New York Times, August 19, 2002.
  4. ↑ Tim Pritlove: CRE198 Pornography. Accessed January 24, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Wishman, Doris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, screenwriter, and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: June 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 2002
Place of death Miami , Florida