Reminiscences of Otto Preminger, 1971.

Biographical Note

Moving-picture director

Scope and Contents

Entry into theatrical work as youth in Vienna; first film experience; invitation to direct at 20th Century Fox, and early films there; making of "Laura", "Exodus", "Royal Scandal", "The Moon is Blue", "The Man With The Golden Arm", "Advice and Consent", "Saint Joan", "Such Good Friends"; social commentary in film; technical and philosophical approach to filmmaking; film schools and apprenticeships; reminiscences of various film industry figures

Subjects

• Higham, Charles, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion picture actors and actresses.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Preminger, Otto--Interviews.
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation.
• United States--Social life and customs.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1990