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Otto Preminger: Hollywood Ten
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Preminger, a reputed tyrant on the set, sometimes terrorized his actors, and a few Hollywood stars refused to work with or even speak to him. He was married three times. In 1971, after famous stripper Gypsy Rose Lee died, Preminger revealed he was the father of her 26-year-old son, Erik Kirkland, whom he then adopted. Kirkland changed his name to Eric Lee Preminger and became a screenwriter. Otto Preminger died in 1986.
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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. Several of these films broke new ground for Hollywood in tackling controversial and taboo topics. Some of his most significant films of this period include:
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During the rest of his tenure with Fox, Preminger churned out a number of films, few of them notable. Tallulah Bankhead starred in his 1945 costume drama A Royal Scandal. It was followed by Where Do We Get from Here in 1945, Centennial Summer, and Fallen Angel in 1946, Forever Amber and Daisy Kenyon in 1947, That Lady in Ermine in 1948, The Fan in 1949, Whirlpool and Where the Sidewalk Ends in 1950, The Thirteenth Letter in 1951, and Angel Face in 1952.
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Preminger's darkly beautiful film noir, based on Marty Holland's popular pulp novel, evokes postwar Hollywood when good and bad were temporary character definitions. Charming drifter Dana Andrews cons local heiress Alice Faye out of enough cash to run off with Linda Darnell, a sultry waitress. But when Darnell turns up dead and Andrews is the prime suspect, the woman he swindled is his best hope for clearing his name.
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Preminger further undermines his romantic idyll, turning it into a near fantasy, with the framing sequences in black and white. These are printed on color stock, so that the grays and blacks are not the absolute tones produced by silver but the more tentative ones produced by color dyes. This ... links the black-and-white and color sections, making the gray Paris scenes seem like variations on or consequences of the sunlight-saturated ones, drained of color by the cold reality Cecile and Raymond have tried so hard to avoid.
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In 1953 Preminger, who had grown to resent Hollywood, quit 20th Century Fox and formed his own company, Carlyle Productions. For the rest of the decade Preminger produced and directed several taboo-breaking films.
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