Otto Preminger Biography
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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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