Dory Previn was a successful lyricist for motion picture theme songs during the s and early '70s, earning three Academy Award nominations for best song; in the mid-'70s and early '80s, she published books of memoirs and wrote and performed in musical theater works. Previn was born on October Different sources list the year of her birth as early as , though seems most probable.
She was deeply influenced by her father, who was mentally disturbed due to his experience in World War I, and she had a difficult childhood. She began to perform in her teens and after high school attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for a year. Thereafter, she was worked as an actress and a dancer, until she began writing song lyrics, which landed her a job at MGM, where she wrote under the name Dory Langdon.
She and Previn married on November 7, In , continuing to use the name Dory Langdon, she began to get frequent assignments to write lyrics for songs used in motion pictures, usually in collaboration with her husband.
They also wrote independent songs, and during the early '60s they had cuts on albums by Doris Day, Eileen Farrell, and Jack Jones, while their film songs were recorded by such performers as Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr.
In , she suffered a nervous breakdown and was institutionalized briefly. Nevertheless, she continued to write with her husband, and began to use the name Dory Previn professionally for the first time.
The Previns' last creative work together was some of their most popular: in , they wrote five songs for Valley of the Dolls. The Valley of the Dolls soundtrack album spent six months in the charts, and Dionne Warwick scored a Top Ten hit with her recording of the theme song, while her own Valley of the Dolls LP went gold.
He took up with year-old actress Mia Farrow, and when it became known that she was pregnant by him, he and Dory Previn separated in the spring of Their divorce became final in July , and he married Farrow. Dory Previn expressed her outrage in the song "Beware of Young Girls. The Sandpipers, who sang the song in the film, recorded it for a Top 40 hit, and it earned Previn her third Oscar nomination.
The result was Mediarts Records' first release and her first album in 13 years, On My Way to Where July , which sold 25, copies. The album's lyrics were published in book form in Previn sold more than 50, copies of her second album, Mythical Kings and Iguanas, released in Monday 20 September Tuesday 21 September Wednesday 22 September Thursday 23 September Friday 24 September Saturday 25 September Sunday 26 September Monday 27 September Tuesday 28 September Wednesday 29 September Thursday 30 September Friday 1 October Saturday 2 October Sunday 3 October Monday 4 October Tuesday 5 October Wednesday 6 October Thursday 7 October Friday 8 October Saturday 9 October Sunday 10 October Monday 11 October Tuesday 12 October Wednesday 13 October Thursday 14 October Friday 15 October Saturday 16 October Sunday 17 October Monday 18 October Tuesday 19 October Wednesday 20 October Thursday 21 October Friday 22 October Saturday 23 October Sunday 24 October Monday 25 October Tuesday 26 October Wednesday 27 October Thursday 28 October Friday 29 October Saturday 30 October Sunday 31 October Monday 1 November Tuesday 2 November Wednesday 3 November Thursday 4 November Friday 5 November Saturday 6 November Sunday 7 November Monday 8 November Tuesday 9 November Wednesday 10 November Thursday 11 November Friday 12 November In she married the actor and painter Joby Baker, who survives her.
In , she released her Planet Blue songs free to the internet. Dory Previn obituary. Dory Previn on stage in the late s. She made few public appearances after her albums of that decade. Photograph: Redferns. She also continued to collaborate on music for film and TV. She then switched to Warner Bros. Overcoming her fear of flying, she toured in Europe in the late s, and in performed in a musical revue of her songs, Children Of Coincidence , in Dublin.
The latter title refers to her Irish heritage: "bogtrotter" is a derogatory term for an Irish person. She wrote Schizo-phren , a one-woman play with songs. From the s, she often used the name Dory Previn Shannon , Shannon being her mother's maiden name. In she married actor and artist Joby Baker. She last appeared in concert in , in Dublin and at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
As a writer, her short stories have appeared in several publications, and she has also worked on a novel, Word-Play with an Invisible Relative. She lectured on lyric writing, recording, and writing autobiographies at various American universities. A piano reduction was published by G. In she released a royalty-free recording available via the internet entitled Planet Blue. She continued to work, in spite of having suffered several strokes, which affected her eyesight.
Previn died, aged 86, on February 14, , at her farm in Southfield, Massachusetts, where she lived with her husband, Joby Baker. Start the radio.
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