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Otto Preminger: Casting
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This review of Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse is ... available on the Chicago Reader Web site, in the form that it appeared in the print version of the newspaper, in the issue of September 24, 1999. I have made a few additions of links, and have found a few minor adjustments that needed to be made in the text after the review appeared in print, so I have placed this slightly different version on my own Web site here. Fred Camper
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Preminger worked with Max Reinhardt before emigrating to America. At first he directed and acted for 20th Century Fox. His Austrian accent caused him to be typecast as a cinematic Nazi, despite the fact that he was a Jew who had left Austria in 1935, three years before Austria merged with Nazi Germany in the Anschluss.
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Preminger was born in Wiznitz, Austria-Hungary a town west of Czernowitz, to Markus and Josefa Preminger. Preminger's father was born in 1877 in Galicia, at a time when it was part of Poland. As an Attorney General of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Markus was a proud public prosecutor on the cusp of an extraordinary career defending the interests of the Emperor Franz Josef. The couple provided a stable home life for Otto and his brother Ingo.
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Preminger was born in Czernowitz to a well-known family. Preminger's father Marc was once the Attorney General of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. As their father, both Otto and his brother, Ingo Preminger, earned law degrees in Vienna.
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In the late ’50s and early ’60s, Preminger seemed obsessed with investigating the workings of large institutions. In the underrated Advise and Consent (1962), Washington, D.C., and congressional procedure come under his spotlight. In the less successful The Cardinal (1963), it’s the Catholic Church.
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At the New York City Opera, in October 1953, Preminger directed the American premiere (in English translation) of Gottfried von Einem's Der Prozeß (The Trial), after Franz Kafka. Soprano Phyllis Curtin headed the cast.
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