Otto Preminger

Born December 5, 1905· Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary

† Died April 23, 1986

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Born in the Austro-Hungarian town of Wischnitz to a Jewish family and later earning a law degree in Vienna, Preminger trained in theatre under Max Reinhardt before emigrating to the United States in the mid-1930s, where he joined 20th Century Fox as a director. He first attracted notice with film-noir titles such as Laura (1944) and Fallen Angel (1945), then moved on to high-profile adaptations th…

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