Otto Preminger (1905-1986), whose Hollywood career spanned the
1930s through the 1970s, is popularly remembered for the acclaimed
films he directed, among which are the classic film noir Laura, the
social-realist melodrama The Man with the Golden Arm, the
CinemaScope musical Carmen Jones, and the riveting courtroom drama
Anatomy of a Murder. As a screen actor, he forged an indelible
impression as a sadistic Nazi in Billy Wilder's Stalag 17 and as
the diabolical Mr. Freeze in television's Batman. He is remembered,
too, for drastically transforming Hollywood's industrial practices.
With Exodus, Preminger broke the Hollywood blacklist,
controversially granting screen credit to Dalton Trumbo, one of the
exiled "Hollywood Ten." Preminger, a committed liberal,
consistently shattered Hollywood's conventions. He routinely
tackled socially progressive yet risque subject matter, pressing
the Production Code's limits of permissibility. He mounted
Black-cast musicals at a period of intense racial unrest. And he
embraced a string of other taboo topics-heroin addiction, rape,
incest, homosexuality-that established his reputation as a
trailblazer of adult-centered storytelling, an enemy of Hollywood
puritanism, and a crusader against censorship. Otto Preminger:
Interviews compiles nineteen interviews from across Preminger's
career, providing fascinating insights into the methods and mindset
of a wildly polarizing filmmaker. With remarkable candor, Preminger
discusses his filmmaking practices, his distinctive film style, his
battles against censorship and the Hollywood blacklist, his clashes
with film critics, and his turbulent relationships with a host of
well-known stars, from Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra to Jane
Fonda and John Wayne.
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