When Otto Preminger called "Action!" actors invoked their patron saint. Miss a cue, overstep a mark or fluff a line, and the Mt. Etna of film directors erupted, eyes bulging, face scarlet, voice ...

Thanks to the Nazi roles he played in “Stalag 17” and other movies, Polish-born Otto Preminger was more recognizable than most film directors. But his reputation as an off-screen tyrant has often ...

THE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is presenting “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” this evening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater -- although no one is really sure if 2006 marks the ...

At the height of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Markus Preminger, a brilliant young lawyer, was offered the position of chief prosecutor, an honor never bestowed on a Jewish attorney. There was only one ...

Otto Preminger’s primary problem was that every self-aggrandizing publicity campaign, every outlandishly elongated two-and-a-half-hour movie, implied he was a genius when in fact he only possessed ...

The late Sixties were not terribly flattering to Otto Preminger. The filmmaker responsible for so many hits over the decades with movies as diverse as the film noirish Laura, the musical Carmen Jones, ...

Otto Preminger’s “Laura,” from 1944 (which I discuss in this clip), isn’t his first feature as a director, but it’s the first film that bears the mark of his artistry. And the first secret that it ...

Victoria Preminger, daughter of director Otto Preminger, died Feb. 7 in Studio City, Calif. following a fall at home. She was 63. Her mother was actress Hope Bryce Preminger and her uncle was film ...

It is amazing the effect that director Otto Preminger had on the composers who worked under Darryl Zanuck's rule at 20th Century Fox in the 1940s. Despite the Austrian-born filmmaker's storming out of ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter No one could deny that Otto Preminger had a temper. When he was displeased, his eyes would bulge, his cheeks swell, his veins pop, ...

A running Hollywood gag in the fifties had sightseers cruising Beverly Hills on a tour of the stars' estates. "Look, there's Otto Preminger's home," one gawker exclaims. "No, that would be a home by ...