Dory Previn: On My Way to Where Saturday, November 16, 2024 2:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m.

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

Live performance at 1:30 p.m. | Film at 2:15 p.m.

A former model and chorus girl, Dory Previn first rose to notoriety as a lyricist for Hollywood 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 Academy Award nominations before their partnership came to a traumatic end following André’s affair with 23-year old Mia Farrow, leading to a months-long hospitalization. This life-altering moment ignited a radical act of self-love and acceptance from Dory: starting with her 1970 autobiographical album On My Way to Where, she reinvented herself as a singer-songwriter in a series of introspective albums that paired 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 Previn’s own journal entries and lyrics in a refreshing documentary, avoiding the redemption arc we’ve come to expect to tell the altogether 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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