Her many memorable screen roles include a supporting role as Joan Crawford's wise-cracking friend in Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ) for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress, and James Stewart's wistful secretary in Otto Preminger's then-explicit murder mystery, Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Remick came to prominence as a rape victim whose husband is tried for killing her attacker in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder.

Welch played a criminal court judge in northern Michigan in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ).

Starting in the 1950s, Preminger's reputation rose to the point that he was commissioned to direct a number of prestigious projects with A-list casts and based on successful novels or stage works.

Ingo Preminger, who produced the 1970 M * A * S * H movie, was Otto Preminger's younger brother.

Hurry Sundown signaled a rather precipitous decline in Preminger's reputation, as it was followed by several other films which were critical and commercial failures, including Skidoo ( 1968 ), a failed attempt at a hip sixties comedy ( and Groucho Marx's last film ), and Rosebud ( 1975 ), a terrorism thriller which was also widely ridiculed.

Zanuck was unhappy with Preminger's first cut of the film and insisted it be given a new ending, in which it was revealed Lydecker had imagined the entire story.

Otto Preminger's Angel Face was the first of three collaborations between Mitchum and British stage actress Jean Simmons.

The Man with the Golden Arm earned $ 4, 100, 000 at the North American box office and the critical reception was just as strong, with Variety magazine stating: " Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm is a feature that focuses on addiction to narcotics.

Lindsay also tried his hand at acting, appearing in Otto Preminger's Rosebud ; the following year his novel, The Edge, was published ( Lindsay had earlier authored two non-fiction memoirs ).

In Otto Preminger's 1957 version of Saint Joan, La Hire was portrayed by Patrick Barr.

Mamoulian was incensed not only that he had been dismissed after eight months of pre-production work, but that he had been replaced by Preminger, who in 1944 had taken over Laura when Mamoulian had ignored all of Preminger's directives as producer of that film.

The first film to break the blacklisting rule by naming a " banned " screenwriter ( here: Dalton Trumbo ) in the credits was Otto Preminger's 1960 film Exodus.

To Preminger's dismay, he cast Laird Cregar, known for his portrayal of Jack the Ripper in The Lodger, in the key role of Lydecker.

Amongst his most famous title sequences are the animated paper cut-out of a heroin addict's arm for Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm, the credits racing up and down what eventually becomes a high-angle shot of the C. I. T. Financial Building in Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and the disjointed text that races together and apart in Psycho.

Bass became widely known in the film industry after creating the title sequence for Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ).

He also wrote the screenplay for Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach, the German language version of Otto Preminger's 1953 film The Moon is Blue.

The film is a disturbingly cool, rational investigation of the terrors of sexuality ... The sets, characters, and actions are extremely stylized, yet Preminger's moving camera gives them a frightening unity and fluidity, tracing a straight, clean line to a cliff top for one of the most audacious endings in film history.

Critic Fernando F. Croce wrote of the film, " Fallen Angel, the director's follow-up to his 1944 classic, is often predictably looked down as a lesser genre venture, yet its subtle analysis of shadowy tropes proves both a continuation and a deepening of Preminger's use of moral ambiguity as a tool of human insight ... Preminger's refusal to draw easy conclusions — his pragmatic curiosity for people — is reflected in his remarkable visual fluidity, the surveying camera constantly moving, shifting dueling points-of-view in order to give them equal weight.

Otto Preminger's success with Laura ( 1944 ) made his name and helped demonstrate noir's adaptability to a high-gloss 20th Century-Fox presentation.

Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, Oscar Wilde's 1897 play Lady Windermere's Fan.

From the mid-1950s, most of Preminger's films utilized distinctive animated titles designed by Saul Bass, and many had modern jazz scores.

Several publicized disputes with leading actors did further damage to Preminger's reputation.

Preminger's liaison with Lee produced a child, Erik.

She resumed her appearances as Preminger's wife, and nothing more.

Dandridge later regretted accepting Preminger's advice.

Fonda did seven post-war films until his contract with Fox expired, the last being Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon ( 1947 ), opposite Joan Crawford.

Mamoulian immediately ignored all of Preminger's directives as producer and began to rewrite the script.

He continued making films, playing Admiral Harriman Nelson in 1961's Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, James Haggin in Walt Disney's Big Red ( 1962 ), and as the Senate Majority Leader in Otto Preminger's Advise & Consent.

Like Some Like It Hot, Preminger's films were direct assaults on the authority of the Production Code and, since they were successful, hastened its abandonment.

* Several of Otto Preminger's UA films remain under the control of his estate, with Warner Bros. distributing.

In 1953, she went to Hollywood to reprise her role in Otto Preminger's film version of The Moon Is Blue.

On June 27, 1961, the PCA granted both The Moon is Blue and The Man with the Golden Arm, Preminger's similarly controversial 1955 release, the seals of approval they initially withheld.

And Otto Preminger's lifting of the play from the stage to the screen is much too rigidly respectful of its conversational form.

Films like 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ) and Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ) show the inner workings of a courtroom.

* Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 )

* Anatomy of a Murder

* Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ): critically acclaimed, quite explicit courtroom drama about rape-murder.

Preminger and author John D. Voelker in the Trailer ( promotion ) | trailer for Anatomy of a Murder

The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ) broke new ground with its exploration of the then taboo subject of heroin addiction, as did Anatomy of a Murder with its frank courtroom discussions of rape and sexual intercourse — the censors objected to the use of words such as " rape ", " sperm ", " sexual climax " and " penetration ".

* Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 )

While his music had been featured on screen for years and sometimes the whole orchestra in film shorts, Ellington ( with Strayhorn ) now began to work directly on music for movies, contributing scores for Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ) and Paris Blues ( 1961 ).

Detroit Free Press music critic Mark Stryker concludes that the work of Billy Strayhorn and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder, the trial court drama film directed by Otto Preminger in 1959, is " indispensable,.

Jimmy Stewart and Ellington in Anatomy of a Murder.

In the late 1950s, his work in films took the shape of scoring for soundtracks, notably Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), with James Stewart, in which he appeared fronting a roadhouse combo, and Paris Blues ( 1961 ), which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

Scott won wide public recognition in the film Anatomy of a Murder, in which he played a wily prosecutor opposite James Stewart as the defense attorney.

* Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 )

Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom crime drama film.

The language used during the movie startled the Chicago Police Commissioner and Mayor Richard J. Daley, and as a result Anatomy of a Murder was banned in that city.

Anatomy of a Murder has been well received by members of the legal and educational professions.

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Marquette County Courthouse was used in the film version of Anatomy of a Murder, which was set in the area.

Big Bay's " claim to fame " is the filming of Anatomy of a Murder in 1959.

* The movie Anatomy of a Murder was filmed in Ishpeming and surrounding areas in 1959, based on the novel by Ishpeming native John D. Voelker under the pen name Robert Traver.

By the late 1950s, increasingly explicit films began to appear, such as Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), Suddenly Last Summer ( 1959 ), and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs ( 1961 ).

He later made The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ), which portrayed the prohibited subject of drug abuse, and Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), which dealt with murder and rape.