Preceded by a cover performance of Dory Previn's music by director/singer-songwriter Julia Greenberg and singer-songwriter Gretchen Phillips

Performance at 1:30 p.m. / Film Screening at 2:15 p.m.

A former model and chorus girl, Dory Previn gained fame as a lyricist for films such as The Valley of the Dolls and The Sterile Cuckoo. Her work with husband composer André Previn led to critical plaudits and several Oscar nominations before their partnership came to a traumatic end following his affair with 23-year old Mia Farrow, resulting in Dory Previn’s months-long hospitalization. This life-altering situation ignited a radical act of self-love and acceptance from Dory Previn: Starting with her 1970 autobiographical album On My Way to Where, she reinvented herself as a singer-songwriter in a series of introspective albums pairing her trademark sharp wit with haunting confessional tales of loneliness, loss, and self-doubt.

Co-directors Julia Greenberg and Dianna Dilworth combine archival footage, interviews, animation, and Dory Previn’s own journal entries and lyrics in a refreshing documentary, avoiding the often-expected redemption arc to tell the more powerful story of a woman who dared to confront her own complexity.

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• This event takes place in Brown Auditorium Theater on the lower level of the Law Building.
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