Otto Preminger - biography

“Directing [Marilyn Monroe] was like directing Lassie.  You need 14 takes to get each one of them right.”

“I’m not a Catholic, I’m a Jew - but I made the Cardinal.  I’m not a senator - but I made Advise and Consent.  I’m not a dope fiend - but I directed The Man With the Golden Arm.  And I’m not a virgin - but I produced The Moon is Blue.”

“People always want to call it ‘the industry’.  It’s not an industry now.  It was.”

“With novelists, I don’t have to get on well.  I buy the rights and then I create - with another writer.  If a novelist wants to have a say about how his book is translated to the screen, he shouldn’t sell it!”

Otto Preminger directed the following films:
Die Große Liebe (1931)
Under Your Spell (1936)
Danger-Love at Work (1937)
Kidnapped (1938)
Margin for Error (1943)
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Laura (1944)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
Centennial Summer (1946)
Forever Amber (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
The Fan (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The 13th Letter (1951)
Angel Face (1952)
The Moon Is Blue (1953)
Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953)
River of No Return (1954)
Carmen Jones (1954)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Saint Joan (1957)
Bonjour tristesse (1958)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Exodus (1960)
Advise and Consent (1962)
The Cardinal (1963)
In Harm’s Way (1965)
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Hurry Sundown (1967)
Skidoo (1968)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
Such Good Friends (1971)
Rosebud (1975)
The Human Factor (1979)


Otto Preminger has appeared in the following films:
The Pied Piper (1942)
They Got Me Covered (1943)
Stalag 17 (1953)