Known for:	Anatomy of a Murder, Laura, The Man with the Golden Arm
Birth name:	Otto Ludwig Preminger
Birthday:	5 December 1906, Vienna, Austria
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

Father, with ecdysiast of renown Gypsy Rose Lee, of producer-screenwriter Erik Lee Preminger. Insisted that Robert Mitchum actually slap Jean Simmons for their scenes in Angel Face During the filming of Saint Joan, Jean Seberg (playing Joan) was about to be burned at the stake. To the horror of the cast and crew, the pile of wood below her actually caught fire. Despite cries and screams of horror Preminger would not allow the flames extinguished until he had filmed the scene (from "Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story" by David Richards). At the premiere of Exodus, Jewish comedian Mort Sahl is reported to have exclaimed, "Otto, let my people go!", which was ironic given that Preminger himself was Jewish. Interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York, USA. Brother of producer Ingo Preminger. Twins with Bryce: Victoria and Mark (b. 3 October 1960) (they were 11 at the time of their parents' marriage) Was voted the 47th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 888-898. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Directed 9 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Clifton Webb, Maggie McNamara, Dorothy Dandridge, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Sal Mineo and John Huston. Was preparing a drama about Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg to be called "Open Question", but died before he could realize this project. Is portrayed by Klaus Maria Brandauer in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956 Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh". NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997 His affair with Dorothy Dandridge was portrayed in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge His 1977 autobiography "Preminger: An Autobiography" was ghostwritten by June Callwood who also ghost-wrote Barbara Walters 1970 book "How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything".

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