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Preminger

[prem-in-jer]

noun

  1. Otto (Ludwig), 1906–86, U.S. motion-picture actor, director, and producer, born in Austria.



Preminger

/ ˈprɛmɪndʒə /

noun

  1. Otto ( Ludwig ). 1906–86, US film director, born in Austria. His films include Carmen Jones (1954) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

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Originally from Marshalltown, Iowa, Seberg leaped to fame following an international talent search by director Otto Preminger for the leading role of his 1957 medieval epic, “Saint Joan.”

Preminger cast her again in his 1958 “Bonjour Tristesse” and again psychologically tormented her during the film’s production.

It’s also worth noting that this film is an adaptation of a book from the 1950s, and layered over that is the first adaptation of the film by Otto Preminger, which came out shortly after the book.

Otto Preminger’s 1958 adaptation, pairing the then-scandalous story with a luminous Jean Seberg, Deborah Kerr and David Niven — plus an experimental use of both Technicolor and monochrome — only burnished its appeal, inspiring the French New Wave to boot.

World premiering in Toronto, celebrated writer Durga Chew-Bose makes her filmmaking debut with a fresh take on Françoise Sagan’s novel, once adapted by Otto Preminger.

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