Doris Wishman
Doris Wishman Indie Filmmaker, 1912-2002 by David Rosen Doris Wishman once said, “After I die I host of pseudonyms like Louis will be making movies in Hell!” And Silverman, Dawn Whitman, Doris she probable is. Chasnik, Dee Ess, Luigi Manicottale, O. O. Miller, Lazarus Volkyl and Doris Wishman is the mother of modern Wisher. filmed pornography. Born on July 23, 1912, in Manhattan, she died on The Queen of Sexploitation grew-up in August 10, 2002, in Miami, living a Forest Hills, Queens, attended Hunter most adventurous life. She was a self- College, studying acting. She hoped taught independent filmmaker who to become an actress and, in time, wrote, produced (and found the found roles in her own movies. Later money!), directed, cast, edited and in life, she reflected: “I’m a frustrated acted in nearly all of her 30 actress — very frustrated. I films. went to dramatic school with Shelley Winters, and I was Her films ranged from far better than she. I know "nudies" to "roughies" to that doesn’t sound right, but "chesties" and, finally, to it’s so.” Through her cousin, "slashers," her works who was a partner with the expressing the movie producer, Joseph E. underground, cult porn Levine, she got her first job scene of the ’60 and ‘70s. in the “business,” a A film critic once opined, secretary in a film “Doris Wishman is not distribution company. She merely the Grand Dame of married Jack Abrahms, an bargain basement advertising industry sexploitation films, she is executive, and moved to the Godard of low-budget genre films.” Florida.
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