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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Also this week: More from Karina Longworth’s “You Must Remember This” series with Hawks, Preminger, Cukor and more, Australian ’80s discovery ‘Going Down’ and first reports from Cannes.

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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.”

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

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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.

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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.

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