Peter Medak’s work with Dory Previn was one of his career’s more unusual chapters | Letter
Nick Lowe on the director’s unusual collaboration with the singer-songwriter Dory PrevinPeter Medak’s long career was a book of many chapters (Peter Medak, veteran director of The Krays and The...
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Nick Lowe on the director’s unusual collaboration with the singer-songwriter Dory Previn Peter Medak’s long career was a book of many chapters ( Peter Medak, veteran director of The Krays and The Changeling, dies aged 88, 28 October ), but one of the more unusual ones was his collaboration with the singer-songwriter Dory Previn, with whom he developed several projects during his short-lived first Hollywood phase after The Ruling Class and A Day in the Death of Joe Egg had made him hot property. Previn’s semi-autobiographical screenplay, The Third Girl from the Left , became Medak’s first US feature, a 1973 TV movie – though on this occasion his Hollywood career failed to ignite and he served out the rest of the 70s back in the UK. But he retained a great fondness for Dory, contributing half a century later to the glorious 2024 documentary Dory Previn: On My Way to Where . Nick Lowe London Continue reading...