Doris Wishman (July 23, 1912 - August 10, 2002) was an American screenwriter. film director and film producer who was involved with making approximately 30 different feature films from 1960 to her death in 2002. July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1960-1964 nudist films

Born in New York City, New York, Wishman's first works all revolved around the central theme of nudism (of the sort today more popularly known as naturism). This was not due to any personal fascination on Wishman's part, but because in the moral climate of the day, nudism was the only way nudity could be depicted in a film without it being considered particularly pornographic. Not that these films were considered family entertainment by any standards, but it filled the gap between mainsteam Hollywood fare and crude short sex loops shown primarily for masturbatory purposes--in the early 1960s, softcore porn movies in the modern sense effectively didn't exist yet. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the largest city and largest metropolitan area, by population, in the United States. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ...

Among the eight nudist films Wishman made in these four years are the 1960 Blaze Starr Goes Wild, also known as Blaze Starr Goes Nudist featuring legendary 1950s stripper Blaze Starr. It was also notable as one of only a few films in which Wishman herself made a cameo appearance. 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Blaze Starr (born 1932) was an American stripper and burlesque star. ...

By far the most unusual of Wishman's nudist pictures was 1962's Nude on the Moon, an attempt to combine traditional nudist material with a science fiction story. The plot involves an all-female nudist civilization and two male astronauts who discover them. 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nude on the Moon was a 1962 movie written and directed by Doris Wishman under the pseudonym Anthony Brooks. For some time, it was mistakenly believed by film historians to be Wishmans first film, because the negative of 1960s Hideout in the Sun had been lost for nearly 40...

Other Wishman films of the era included Hideout in the Sun (1960), Diary of a Nudist (1961), Gentlemen Prefer Nature Girls (1962), Playgirls International (1963), Behind the Nudist Curtain (1963), The Prince and the Nature Girl (1964). 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

1965-1978 exploitation

For the next decade, Wishman directed primarily exploitation films, the work for which she was to become best known. Several films of this period were directed under the pseudonym "Louis Silverman", which was actually her husband's name.

The 1965 effort Bad Girls Go to Hell is regarded as Wishman's best-known film, and includes many elements common to sex exploitation movies of the era. The main character is a young woman who accidentally kills a man in the course of an attempted rape, and flees to New York to escape capture. There, she succumbs to various sleazy situations while starting over under an assumed identity. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...

Deadly Weapons (1973) Double Agent 73 (1974) and The Immoral Three (1975) all form a trilogy of sorts. The three films were intended to star stripper Chesty Morgan, known for her 73-inch bust size. Morgan and Wishman had creative differences during filming, however. The first two films both feature Morgan, but in Double Agent 73, all her lines are dubbed in by another actress. Morgan did not appear in the final film, The Immortal Three. Instead, her character Agent 73 from the previous film is played by a different actress, who dies shortly after the opening credits. The two films Wishman directed with Chesty Morgan have become minor cult movies, due to their highly unconventional plots. In Double Agent 73, for example, Morgan plays a secret agent who has both a camera and a bomb installed in her breasts. Such a thing might not seem wholly out of place in a sex comedy, but these films are played straight--the tone is more serious than a James Bond movie. Deadly Weapons is a 1973 movie melodrama directed by Doris Wishman, starring Chesty Morgan and Harry Reems. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Chesty Morgan (born Lillian Wilczkowsky in 1928 in Poland) is best known for her extremely large breasts and her appearances in the exploitation films of director Doris Wishman. ... A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of obsessive fans or one that has remained popular over successive years amongst a small group of followers. ... James Bond, also known as 007 (pronounced double-oh seven), is a fictional British spy introduced by writer Ian Fleming in 1953. ...

Other Wishman films of the era included The Sex Perils of Paulette (1965), Another Day, Another Man (1966), My Brother's Wife (1966), A Taste of Her Flesh (1967), Indecent Desires (1967), Too Much Too Often! (1968), Love Toy (1968), The Amazing Transplant (1970), Keyholes Are for Peeping (1972), Satan Was a Lady (1975), Come with Me, My Love (1976), and Let Me Die a Woman (1978). 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

1978-2002 the final films

A five-year dormant period followed Let Me Die a Woman. At the time, sex exploitation movies were experiencing a retreat in the face of competition from hardcore pornography and the budding home video industry. Noticing the trend toward slasher movies such as Friday the 13th, Wishman filmed the gory horror picture A Night to Dismember in 1983. A post-production problem led to much of the completed film being distroyed, and Wishman attempted to cobble together a full-length film out of the remaining footage, plus outtakes and unfinished sequences. The resulting film was not successful, and Wishman retired from the movie business for more than a decade to live in Florida. In the mid-1990s, with the growing cult status of her earlier work, she set to filming another feature, a sex comedy called Dildo Heaven, which would see a release after seven years of production in 2002. During the same period she released a film noir called Satan Was a Lady (2001). Wishman's last film, 2002's Each Time I Kill, was another attempt at horror. She completed almost all of the film herself, and left detailed instructions on how to finish the remainder. The slasher film is a sub-genre of the horror genre. ... Look up paraskavedekatriaphobia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Friday the 13th is considered to be a day of bad luck in many superstitions. ... 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Doris Wishman died at her home in Miami, Florida in 2002 of lymphoma. The Miami skyline, as it is seen from the northeast on Biscayne Bay. ... Lymphoma is a general term for localized malignancies that develop in the lymphatic or reticuloendothelial system. ...

External Links

• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database