Erik Lee Preminger can still vividly remember the moment when he found out, at age 17, that actor Alexander Kirkland, who was married to his mother before his birth, was not his biological father.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TCM—Turner Classic Movies—is the sort of cinematic treasure chest that it’s all too easy to take for granted. But, for cinephiles, the idea of a round-the-clock channel devoted mainly to Hollywood ...

Otto Preminger, perhaps the most publicly recognizable director of the 1950s after Alfred Hitchcock, has seen his reputation decline drastically since his death in 1986. Today he’s often unfairly ...

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 ...

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, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Producer Sam Okun and his Sam Okun Productions banner have optioned worldwide film and TV remake and sequel rights to a pair of classic films directed and produced by three-time Oscar ...

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 ...

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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, ...