Doris wishman biography

Doris Wishman (June 1, 1912 – August 10, 2002) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Doris Wishman was born on 1 June 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a director and producer, known for Satan Was a Lady (2001), Nude on the Moon.
Doris Wishman was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Blu-ray: THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN

Company: AGFA + Something Weird

Role: Designer, Producer

Doris Wishman was one of the most prolific women filmmakers in the history of American cinema. She created collisions between surrealism and exploitation that feel like they materialized from an alternate universe. Wishman is also one of my most favorite filmmakers of all time. Over the span of four years, AGFA + Something Weird restored almost all of Wishman’s filmography, culminating with three Blu-ray box set releases: THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE DAYLIGHT YEARS, THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE MOONLIGHT YEARS, and THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN: THE TWILIGHT YEARS. Utilizing rare materials from biographer Michael Bowen and the Something Weird vaults, I designed the sets with an elegant aesthetic that amplified Wishman’s visuals without relying on overused “grindhouse” visual cues. The individual boxes were magnetized so that they could all snap together when purchased to form a single set.

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“She Was An Outsider Artist”: Doris Wishman Biographer Michael Bowen on the Sexploitation Filmmaking Queen’s Life and Career

Boasting sensational titles like Nude on the Moon, Bad Girls Go to Hell, and Keyholes Are for Peeping, New York City-born director Doris Wishman became the queen of sexploitation filmmaking during the 1960s and ‘70s — one of the only women creating movies in the softcore subgenre that played the grindhouse theaters in cities across America. A self-taught writer and director, Wishman became famous for her nudist camp romps and melodramatic B-film aesthetic, which won her the title of the “Female Ed Wood.” Unconventional editing choices, including cutaways to paintings and ashtrays, overdubbed dialogue, gratuitous violence and nudity, and the exploitation of innocent women aplenty, a Doris Wishman film is titillating, odd, and endearing at the same time. Her films exist on their own terms.

For the past 20 years, Doris Wishman biographer Michael Bowen has been amassing material from Doris’ life and prolific career for a forthcoming book about the sexplo

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Doris Wishman; Exploitation Film Director, Cult Favorite

Her films were crass, coarse and camp, and fell into such exploitation categories as “nudies,” “roughies,” “chesties” and “slashers”--perfect fodder for a cult following.

But nobody was more surprised at such film-festival idolatry that developed over the last 20 years than the woman at its center--independent filmmaker Doris Wishman. The best of her 30 films with the bargain-basement budgets and racy titles is generally acknowledged to be 1965’s “Bad Girls Go to Hell.”

Wishman, whose final movie, “Each Time I Kill,” is expected to be released later this year, died Aug. 10 in a Miami hospital of complications from lymphoma. Refusing to divulge her age, she was estimated to be from 77 to 90 and had lived in Coral Gables, Fla.

Born in Manhattan, Wishman attended Hunter College and studied acting, hoping to become an actress. But the only role she could land was as a secretary in a relative’s film distribution business. She married adman Jack Abrahms and moved to Florida.

When he died of a heart attack at 31 in 1958, Wishm