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Preminger immediately hired a new cinematographer and scenic designer and replaced the portrait of Laura – a crucial element of the film – Mamoulian's wife Azadia had painted the original portrait, but Preminger replaced that with an enlarged photograph ( taken by Fox photographer Frank Polony ) of Tierney, lightly dabbed with oils to give it the ethereal effect he wanted.
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Preminger and hired
Once principal photography was completed, Preminger hired David Raksin to score the film.
He became ill during shooting, so Lubitsch hired Otto Preminger to do the rest of the shooting.
Because he admired his screenplay for the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Preminger hired Horton Foote to adapt the Gilden book, which the author thought was " embarrassing ," with " no genuine Southern flavor at all.
Preminger and cinematographer
Midway through filming, Preminger had to replace cinematographer Loyal Griggs with Milton R. Krasner when Griggs seriously injured his back.
Preminger and replaced
* Forever Amber ( 1947 ) replaced as director by Otto Preminger
Mamoulian was incensed not only that he had been dismissed after eight months of pre-production work, but that he had been replaced by Preminger, who in 1944 had taken over Laura when Mamoulian had ignored all of Preminger's directives as producer of that film.
) Preminger replaced Foote with Thomas C. Ryan, who worked for him as his chief reader and was familiar with the type of material his employer found appealing.
Preminger and Laura
Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger.
Otto Preminger was looking for a theatrical project to direct and first became aware of Vera Caspary's story when her agent offered him the first draft of a play called Ring Twice for Laura.
In retaliation, he announced Preminger could produce but not direct Laura and assigned him to helm In the Meantime, Darling instead.
* Preminger, Otto and Bogdanovich, Peter, " The Making of Laura ," On Film, Volume I, Number 1.
Webb was in his mid-fifties when actor / director Otto Preminger chose him over the objections of 20th Century Fox chief Darryl F. Zanuck to play the elegant but evil radio columnist Waldo Lydecker, who is obsessed with Gene Tierney's character in the 1944 film noir Laura.
Not so, however, his pungent dialogue and unfolding of the plot, which Otto Preminger, who guided the same stars through Laura several seasons back, has taken to like a duck to water and kept clipping along crisply till the fadeout.
Fallen Angel is a 1945 black-and-white film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who had also worked with Preminger on Laura a year before.
Preminger and –
* 1906 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director, producer, and actor ( d. 1986 )
* December 5 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-born American film director ( d. 1986 )
I worked with the best directors – Ford, Wyler, Preminger – and learned a lot from them.
Otto Ludwig Preminger ( 5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986 ) as reviewers scrambled to discern traces of Lubitsch's hand.
* Otto Preminger ( 1905-1986 ), Austro – Hungarian-born American film director
Preminger was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director ; John Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.
The best-selling novel was turned into an Academy Award nominated film – directed by Otto Preminger and starring James Stewart – that was released July 1, 1959.
Preminger and film
With the support of Otto Preminger, Trumbo was credited for his screenplay for the 1960 film Exodus, adapted from the novel by Leon Uris.
Lang epitomized the stereotype of the tyrannical German film director such as Erich von Stroheim and Otto Preminger ; he was known for being hard to work with.
He did paint the old character mustache over his real one on a few rare performing occasions, including a TV sketch with Jackie Gleason on the latter's variety show in the 1960s ( in which they performed a variation on the song " Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ," co-written by Marx's uncle Al Shean ) and the 1968 Otto Preminger film Skidoo.
** Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director ( b. 1906 )
During that period, Preminger advised her on career matters, including an offer made to Dandridge for the featured role of Tuptim in the 1956 film of The King and I. Preminger advised her to turn down the supporting role, as he believed it to be unworthy of her.
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,.
Laughton worked on the film, which was directed by Otto Preminger, while he was dying from metastatic renal cell carcinoma ( kidney cancer ).
Preminger finally convinced Zanuck the material needed a more subtle approach than Mamoulian was willing to give it, and the studio head allowed the producer to fire him and direct the film himself.
His last film, That Lady in Ermine with Betty Grable, was completed by Otto Preminger and released posthumously in 1948.
* Exodus, Hollywood film with Paul Newman, directed by Otto Preminger ( 1960 ).
Director Otto Preminger previously had released a film lacking the Production Code in 1953, with The Moon is Blue.
The 13th Letter, directed by his future nemesis and love rival Otto Preminger, was a remake of the 1943 French film Le Corbeau ( The Raven ), with the setting changed to the Canadian province of Quebec.
The Moon Is Blue is a 1953 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara.
Herbert's play had been a huge success in Germany, and Preminger decided to film English and German language versions simultaneously, using the same sets but different casts.
On January 6, Preminger and Herbert advised the Breen office they disagreed with its decision and would film the screenplay without further changes.
In a display of solidarity, United Artist heads Arthur B. Krim and Robert S. Benjamin amended their contract and deleted the clause requiring Preminger to deliver a film that would be granted a Production Code seal of approval.
Two days later, Breen notified Preminger the film would not be approved.
Preminger and wife
As they continued living together, Preminger and his wife Marion became more and more estranged.
She ended the affair with Preminger upon realization that he had no plans to leave his first wife to marry her.
" Welch accepted the part only after Preminger agreed to let his wife be on the jury.
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