Doris Wishman
| Doris Wishman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 1, 1912 New York City, New York, US |
| Died | August 10, 2002 (aged 90) Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupation | Director, producer, writer |
| Years active | 1959–2002 |
Doris Wishman (June 1, 1912 – August 10, 2002) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer. She is credited with having directed and produced at least thirty feature films during a career spanning over four decades, most notably in the sexploitation film genre.
Doris Wishman was born on June 1, 1912, in New York City. Her father was a hay and grain salesman; her mother died when she was still a child. After graduating from high school, she claimed to take acting lessons at the Alviene School of Dramatics in New York City in the early 1930s. She later worked as a film booker for her cousin Max Rosenberg, an independent film distributor who handled both art films and exploitation film fare during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this same period she was married to a man named Jack Abrams and lived for a period of time in Miami, Florida. By her own account, Wishman began her film production career after Abrams' untimely death in 1958.
In 1957, a New York Appeals court ruling allowed films depicting nudism to be exhibited in movie theaters in New York State. Inspired by this development, Wishman claimed in several interviews to have borrowed $10,000 from her sister to produce her first film, Hideout in the Sun, a nudist film, shot in late 1958 and released in early 1960. Her next film, Nude on the Moon, released in 1961, was a science fiction nudie. The film was banned in New York State after the New York State Censorship Board ruled that films featuring nudity in a nudist colony were legally permissible but nudity in a fantasy film set in a "nudist colony on the Moon" was not. Her fourth nudist film, Blaze Starr Goes Nudist (1962), starred legendary burlesque performer Blaze Starr. Wishman produced eight nudist films in total between 1958 and 1964. After the popularity of the genre began to wane, she decided to abandon nudist exploitation films and transition into the new sexploitation genre.
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