Prince of Detroit
A child tap dancer in New Jersey, Previn went on to write classic songs. In NYC as a showgirl, she wrote for Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Caught in a 1960s Hollywood scandal, she entered the Laurel…
Prince of Detroit
A child tap dancer in New Jersey, Previn went on to write classic songs. In NYC as a showgirl, she wrote for Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Caught in a 1960s Hollywood scandal, she entered the Laurel Canyon music scene. Writing and singing the unvarnished truth about one's buried secret life experiences is more common today than when Dory Previn wrote brilliant, disturbing, and darkly funny songs in the1970s. Previn began as an Academy Award nominated lyricist for Hollywood musicals with songs for Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Dionne Warwick before a tabloid scandal and public breakdown led to her re-emergence as a cult artist in the Laurel Canyon scene. The film taps archives for a story in Previn's voice. J. Smith-Cameron (SUCCESSION) reads the voices in Dory's head from her journals. "If you've never heard of Dory Previn, prepare to be ashamed of yourself," wrote Rex Reed. —Dianna Dilworth
Prince of Detroit
Drama
Film Details
A child tap dancer in New Jersey, Previn went on to write classic songs. In NYC as a showgirl, she wrote for Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. Caught in a 1960s Hollywood scandal, she entered the Laurel Canyon music scene.
Writing and singing the unvarnished truth about one's buried secret life experiences is more common today than when Dory Previn wrote brilliant, disturbing, and darkly funny songs in the1970s. Previn began as an Academy Award nominated lyricist for Hollywood musicals with songs for Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland and Dionne Warwick before a tabloid scandal and public breakdown led to her re-emergence as a cult artist in the Laurel Canyon scene. The film taps archives for a story in Previn's voice.
J. Smith-Cameron (SUCCESSION) reads the voices in Dory's head from her journals. "If you've never heard of Dory Previn, prepare to be ashamed of yourself," wrote Rex Reed.
—Dianna Dilworth.