13 James Preminger, interview by author, November 23, 2002.
14 Kathy Preminger, interview by author, November 11, 2002.
15 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
16 Ibid.
17 James Preminger, interview by author.
18 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
19 Preminger, Preminger, p. 25.
20 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
21 Preminger, Preminger, p. 25.
22 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
23 Ibid.
24 Paul Hofmann, The Viennese: Splendor, Twilight and Exile (New York: Doubleday, 1988), p. 105.
25 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
26 Ibid.
27 Willi Frischauer, Behind the Scenes of Otto Preminger (New York: William Morrow, 1974), p. 29.
28 Ibid.
29 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
30 Hofmann, The Viennese, p. 1.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., p. 5.
33 Hitler quoted in Hofmann, The Viennese, p. 143.
34 Ibid., p. 163.
35 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
36 Ibid.
37 Unsourced newspaper clipping, 1936, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library, Beverly Hills, California.
38 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 29.
39 Hofmann, The Viennese, p. 169.
40 Preminger, Preminger, p. 26.
41 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
42 Eve Preminger, interview by author.
43 Preminger, Preminger, p. 34.
44 Ibid., p. 30.
45 Ibid., p. 31.
46 Ibid., p. 33.
47 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
48 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 42.
49 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 31.
50 Preminger, Preminger, p. 34.
51 Paula Laurence, interview by author, July 11, 2002.
52 Preminger, Preminger, p. 34.
53 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 43.
54 Ibid., p. 44.
55 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
56 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 41.
57 Preminger quoted in ibid., p. 46.
58 Preminger quoted in ibid., p. 40.
59 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
60 Marion Mill Preminger, All I Want Is Everything (New York: MacFaden, 1957), p. 110.
61 Eve Preminger, interview by author.
62 Preminger, Preminger, p. 44.
63 Kathy Preminger, interview by author.
64 Marion Mill Preminger, Everything, pp. 112–13.
65 Ibid., p. 114.
66 Ibid., p. 141.
67 Eve Preminger, interview by author.
68 Preminger, Preminger, p. 36.
69 Ibid., p. 37.
70 Ibid., p. 39.
71 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
72 Preminger, Preminger, p. 38.
73 Ibid.
74 Ibid., p. 41.
75 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
76 Luise Rainer quoted in Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 56.
77 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
78 Cecil Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties (New York: Knopf, 2004), p. 168.
79 Preminger, Preminger, p. 2.
80 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
81 Ibid.
82 Preminger, Preminger, p. 44.
83 Marion Mill Preminger, Everything, p. 154.
84 Hofmann, The Viennese, p. 199.
85 Preminger, Preminger, p. 44.
86 Ibid., p. 43.
2 RISE AND FALL
1 Preminger, Preminger, p. 3.
2 Preminger quoted in Earl Wilson, Los Angeles Mirror, March 25, 1961.
3 Preminger quoted in “Vienna’s Dr. Preminger as a Broadway Director,” New York Post, December 14, 1935.
4 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, pp. 42–43.
5 Unsourced newspaper clipping, January 1936, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.
6 Celeste Holm, interview by author, June 26, 2002.
7 Ruth Warrick, interview by author, May 20, 1999; May 25, 2001; and June 9, 2002.
8 Preminger, Preminger, p. 15.
9 Ibid.
10 Variety, November 9, 1936.
11 Preminger, Preminger, p. 16.
12 Ibid., p. 17.
13 Ibid., p. 48.
14 Variety, October 1, 1937.
15 Los Angeles Examiner, August 12, 1942.
16 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 48.
17 Preminger, Preminger, p. 20.
18 Ibid., p. 21.
19 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 50.
20 Luise Rainer quoted in Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 73.
21 Preminger, Preminger, p. 48.
22 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
23 Ibid.
24 Ibid.
25 Ibid.
26 Preminger, Preminger, p. 49.
27 Marguerite Courtney, Laurette (New York: Atheneum, 1968), p. 378.
28 Ibid., p. 379.
29 Preminger quoted in ibid.
30 Ibid., p. 381.
31 Preminger, Preminger, p. 52.
32 Ibid., p. 55.
33 Trumball Barton, interview by author, November 18, 1998.
34 Elaine Barrymore, interview by author, July 7, 2001.
35 Preminger, Preminger, p. 56.
36 Elaine Barrymore, interview by author.
37 Ibid.
38 Preminger, Preminger, p. 56.
39 Elaine Barrymore, interview by author.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Preminger, Preminger, p. 57.
43 Ibid., p. 58.
44 Ibid.
45 Elaine Barrymore, interview by author.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid.
48 Trumball Barton, interview by author.
49 Ibid.
50 Preminger, Preminger, p. 62.
51 Ibid.
52 Trumball Barton, interview by author.
53 Preminger, Preminger, p. 62.
54 Trumball Barton, interview by author.
55 Louis Nizer, interview by Val Robins, July 1990, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
56 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Examiner, May 20, 1942.
57 Paul Kohner letter, April 15, 1942, in Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.
3 SEIZING THE DAY
1 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 53.
2 Preminger quoted in ibid.
3 Preminger quoted in ibid.
4 Preminger, Preminger, p. 80.
5 Marion Mill Preminger, Everything, p. 173.
6 Ibid., p. 166.
7 Ibid., pp. 185–88.
8 Preminger, Preminger, p. 44.
9 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1943.
10 Otto Preminger and Peter Bogdanovich, “The Making of Laura,” On Film 1, no. 1 (1970), p. 48.
11 Vera Caspary, “My Laura and Otto’s,” Saturday Review, June 26, 1971.
12 Vera Caspary, quoted in Preminger and Bogdanovich, “The Making of Laura,” p. 49.
13 Caspary, “My Laura and Otto’s.”
14 Ibid.
15 Darryl F. Zanuck quoted in George F. Custen, Twentieth Century’s Fox: Darryl F Zanuck and the Culture of Hollywood (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 66, from Stephen M. Silverman, The Fox That Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox (Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1988), p. 75.
16 Preminger, Preminger, p. 72.
17 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 70.
18 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 113.
19 Preminger, Preminger, p. 84.
20 Byrnie Foy quoted in Preminger and Bogdanovich, “The Making of Laura” p. 49.
2
1 Preminger and Bogdanovich, “The Making of Laura” p. 49.
22 Darryl F. Zanuck quoted in Custen, Twentieth Century’s Fox, p. 291.
23 Darryl F. Zanuck quoted in ibid., p. 290.
24 Lewis Milestone quoted in Preminger and Bogdanovich, “The Making of Laura” p. 49; ibid., p. 50.
25 Ibid., p. 50.
26 Rufus LeMaire quoted in ibid.
27 Ibid., p. 51.
28 Darryl F. Zanuck quoted in ibid., p. 62.
29 Ibid., p. 51.
30 Gene Tierney, Self Portrait (New York: Wyden Books, 1978), p. 114.
31 Vincent Price, interview by Val Robins, July 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
32 Preminger and Bogdanovich, “The Making of Laura” p. 51.
33 Vincent Price, interview by Val Robins.
34 Ibid.
35 Tierney, Self Portrait, p. 113.
36 Ibid., p. 116.
37 David Raksin, interview by author, July 29, 2002.
38 Darryl F. Zanuck and Walter Winchell quoted in Preminger and Bogdanovich, “The Making of Laura,” p. 52.
39 Ibid., p. 52.
40 Caspary, “My Laura and Otto’s.”
41 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 91.
42 Arthur Laurents, interview by author, February 25, 2002.
43 Ibid.
44 Preminger, Preminger, p. 95.
45 Ibid.
46 Ibid.
47 Ibid., p. 96.
4 ON THE JOB (1)
1 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 114.
2 Nicola Lubitsch, interview by author, June 11, 2003.
3 Phoebe Ephron quoted in Scott Eyman, Ernst Lubitsch: Laughter in Paradise (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993), p. 324.
4 Nicola Lubitsch, interview by author.
5 Preminger, Preminger, p. 89.
6 Eyman, Lubitsch, p. 335.
7 Preminger, Preminger, p. 89.
8 Ibid., p. 85.
9 Ibid., p. 86.
10 Vincent Price, interview by Val Robins.
11 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 70.
12 David Raksin, interview by author.
13 Preminger, Preminger, pp. 99–100.
14 Preminger quoted in Fox press release, April 1945, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.
15 Ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 David Raksin, interview by author.
18 Celeste Holm, interview by author.
19 David Raksin quoted in Ronald L. Davis, Hollywood Beauty: Linda Darnell and the American Dream (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991), p. 89.
20 David Raksin, interview by author.
21 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 74.
22 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 26, 1955.
23 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 75.
24 Preminger quoted in Mel Gussow, Don’t Say Yes Until I Finish Talking: A Biography of Darryl F. Zanuck (New York: Doubleday, 1971), p. 148.
25 Preminger, Preminger, p. 81.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid., p. 104.
28 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 63.
29 Preminger, Preminger, p. 104.
30 Ibid.
31 Ring Lardner Jr., I’d Hate Myself in the Morning (New York: Thunder’s Mouth/ Nation Books, 2000), p. 107.
32 Philip Dunne quoted in Davis, Hollywood Beauty, p. 97.
33 Philip Dunne quoted in ibid., p. 98.
34 Lardner, I’d Hate Myself, pp. 116–17.
35 Preminger, Preminger, p. 105.
36 Linda Darnell quoted in Davis, Hollywood Beauty, p. 98.
37 Linda Darnell’s sister quoted in ibid., p. 100.
38 Ibid., p. 110.
39 Cornel Wilde quoted in ibid., p. 100.
40 Leon Shamroy quoted in ibid., p. 101.
41 David Raksin, interview by author.
42 Preminger, Preminger, p. 105.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid., p. 106.
45 Preminger quoted in New York Times, February 17, 1957.
46 David Raksin, interview by author.
47 Preminger, Preminger, p. 105.
5 ON THE JOB (2)
1 Ruth Warrick, interview by author.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Preminger, Preminger, p. 100.
6 Eve Preminger, interview by author.
7 David Raksin, interview by author.
8 Variety, November 29, 1947.
9 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
10 Eve Preminger, interview by author.
11 Ibid.
12 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
13 Eve Preminger, interview by author.
14 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
15 James Preminger, interview by author.
16 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
17 Nicola Lubitsch, interview by author.
18 Tom McGee, The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs (Vestal, N.Y.: Vestal, 1995), p. 146.
19 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. quoted in Eyman, Lubitsch, p. 356.
20 Ibid., p. 359.
21 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 72.
22 Vera Fairbanks, interview by author, June 12, 2002.
23 Preminger quoted in Eyman, Lubitsch, p. 365.
24 Douglas Fairbanks Jr., interview by author, October 4, 1998.
25 McGee, Girl, p. 148.
26 Ibid., p. 149.
27 Vera Fairbanks, interview by author.
28 Nicola Lubitsch, interview by author.
29 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 72.
30 Virginia McDowall, interview by author, August 8, 2002.
31 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 91.
32 Virginia McDowall, interview by author.
33 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, interview by Val Robins, July 1990, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
34 José Ferrer, interview by Val Robins, July 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
35 Ibid.
36 David Raksin, interview by author.
37 Marion Mill Preminger, Everything, p. 224.
38 Marion Mill Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Herald Tribune, April 21, 1958.
39 Preminger, Preminger, p. 81.
40 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 65.
41 Marion Mill Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Herald Tribune, April 21, 1958.
42 Los Angeles Times, October 1, 1953.
43 Library Journal, October 15, 1957.
44 McCall’s, March 1965.
45 Preminger, Preminger, p. 82.
46 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 65.
47 Preminger, Preminger, p. 82.
48 Ibid., p. 106.
49 Ibid.
50 Ibid., p. 121.
51 Howell Gilbert, interview by author, June 6, 2003.
52 Biff McGuire, interview by author, July 15, 2002.
53 New York Herald Tribune, January 19, 1951.
6 THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
1 Diana Herbert, interview by author, January 20, 2003.
2 Preminger, Preminger, p. 107.
3 Diana Herbert, interview by author.
4 Barry Nelson, interview by author, June 16, 2002.
5 Biff McGuire, interview by author.
6 Paula Laurence, interview by author.
7 Diana Douglas Darrid, In the Wings (New York: Barricade Books, 1999), p. 181.
8 Ibid., p. 183.
9 Preminger, Preminger, p. 131.
10 Kathy Preminger, interview by author.
11 Preminger, Preminger, p. 132.
12 Kathy Preminger, interview by author.
13 James Preminger, interview by author.
14 Preminger quoted in Charlotte Chandler, Nobody’s Perfect: Billy Wilder, A Personal Biography (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002), p. 168.
15 Billy Wilder quoted in ibid.
16 Prem
inger quoted in ibid.
17 Preminger quoted in ibid.
18 Preminger, Preminger, p. 124.
19 Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story (New York: Dutton, 1996), p. 241.
20 Jean Simmons, interview by author, August 31, 2003.
21 Brown and Broeske, Hughes, p. 241.
22 Preminger, Preminger, p. 124.
23 Preminger and Oscar Millard quoted in Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 118.
24 Preminger, Preminger, p. 124.
25 Jean Simmons, interview by author.
26 Robert Mitchum quoted in Lee Server, Robert Mitchum: “Baby, I Don’t Care” (New York: St. Martin’s, 2001), p. 239.
27 Jean Simmons, interview by author.
28 Mona Freeman, interview by author, August 16, 2002.
29 Server, Mitchum, p. 239.
30 Joseph Breen quoted in Leonard J. Leff and Jerold L. Simmons, The Dame in the Kimono: Hollywood, Censorship, and the Production Code from the 1920s to the 1960s (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990), p. 191.
31 David Niven, The Moon’s a Balloon (New York: Putnam, 1971), p. 324.
32 Jack Vizzard, See No Evil: Life Inside a Hollywood Censor (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970), p. 157.
33 Leff and Simmons, Kimono, p. 192.
34 Geoffrey Shurlock quoted in ibid., p. 193.
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid., p. 194.
37 Niven, Balloon, p. 324.
38 Biff McGuire, interview by author.
39 Ibid.
40 Johanna Matz, interview by Val Robins, August 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
41 Joseph Breen quoted in Leff and Simmons, Kimono, p. 194.
42 Preminger quoted in ibid., p. 195.
43 Lawyer for Production Code Administration office quoted in ibid., p. 196.
44 Nicholas Schenck quoted in ibid.
45 Preminger, Preminger, p. 109.
46 Saul Bass, interview by Val Robins, July 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
47 Ibid.
48 Preminger quoted in Leff and Simmons, Kimono, p. 198.
49 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 1, 1953.
50 Preminger, Preminger, p. 109.
51 Judge Herman Moser quoted in Vizzard, See No Evil, p. 157.
52 Leff and Simmons, Kimono, p. 203.
53 Jack Vizzard quoted in ibid., p. 155.
54 Diana Herbert, interview by author.
55 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author, August 2 and 3, 2003.
56 Ibid.
57 Preminger, Preminger, p. 127.
58 Stanley Rubin, interview by author, January 22, 2003.
59 Ibid.
60 Preminger, Preminger, p. 128.
61 Ibid.
62 Paul Helmick quoted in Server, Mitchum, p. 249.
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