Otto Preminger

...a sense of what they wanted. Then Jerry would call me. JW: When did Fielding return to composing for the movies? LN: In 1962 Otto Preminger asked him to compose for Advise and Consent. It was a big break for him. Then more movie work...

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...would you want to live in? Sometimes, a film creates a world you wish you could simply step into. For me, it's the dark opulence Otto Preminger conjured up for Laura. Now, over to you A world that's 'sun-kissed and kind of high' … The...

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...Corman's fierce bargain-basement civil rights melodrama The Intruder. As a politically minded youth, I was fascinated and appalled by Otto Preminger's adaptation of Advise and Consent. For anxious thrills, however, nothing could top the Cuban...

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...and five "Star Trek" features. One of his standout genres was war ("Patton," the "Rambo" pictures). One of his best scores was for Otto Preminger's "In Harm's Way," a 1965 World War II epic starring John Wayne and Kirk Douglas as naval...

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...imagines that politicians here can still look like the jowly, dishevelled Charles Laughton playing Senator Seabright Cooley in Otto Preminger's film Advise and Consent, should think again. Once upon a time, the country did have a president,...

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...Promises" on Broadway, and soon after he won a Tony for his turn in "Child's Play." That performance snagged the attention of director Otto Preminger, who cast the square-jawed classic hunk opposite Liza Minnelli in "Tell Me That You Love Me,...

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...epic based on the Leon Uris novel about the founding of the state of Israel. Although Newman had disagreements with director Otto Preminger, he managed to give one of his most heroic performances as Ari Ben Canaan, an underground resistance...

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...& Alice." But my favorite movie year is 1959, the 12-month period when Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinnemann, Otto Preminger, Jimmy Stewart and William Wyler all hit career peaks. Simultaneously, art houses were...

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...Entertainment (Oct. 20). "Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection" (Sept. 22), a seventeen-disk set from Twentieth Century Fox, includes Otto Preminger's epic "Exodus," Robert Rossen's "The Hustler," and Robert Altman's "Buffalo Bill and the...

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...under whose name Trumbo had to submit the work to get it produced. Trumbo only beat the blacklist by outlasting it. In 1960, Otto Preminger credited him for "Exodus" and Kirk Douglas credited him for "Spartacus," bold moves that signaled...

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