63 Stanley Rubin, interview by author.
64 Barbara Leaming, Marilyn Monroe (New York: Crown, 1998), p. 92.
65 Paul Helmick quoted in Server, Mitchum, p. 249.
66 Preminger, Preminger, p. 128.
67 Stanley Rubin, interview by author.
68 Preminger, Preminger, p. 129.
69 Stanley Rubin, interview by author.
70 Ibid.
71 Preminger, Preminger, p. 132.
72 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 109.
7 LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE
1 Oscar Hammerstein II, liner notes for Carmen Jones Original Cast Album, Decca Records, 1943.
2 Preminger, Preminger, p. 133.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid., p. 134.
5 Joseph Breen quoted in Donald Bogle, Dorothy Dandridge (New York: Amistad, 1997), p. 266.
6 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 110.
7 Preminger memo quoted in Bogle, Dandridge, p. 268.
8 Diahann Carroll, Diahann!(Boston: Little, Brown, 1986), p. 50.
9 Ibid., p. 52.
10 Brock Peters, interview by author, August 27, 2002.
11 Preminger quoted in Earl Mills, Dorothy Dandridge: A Portrait in Black (Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1970), p. 172.
12 Preminger quoted in ibid.
13 Preminger quoted in Dorothy Dandridge and Earl Conrad, Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Story (New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1970), p. 156.
14 Dorothy Dandridge quoted in Mills, Dandridge, p. 172.
15 Dorothy Dandridge quoted in ibid., p. 173.
16 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 157.
17 Mills, Dandridge, p. 173.
18 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 158.
19 Olga James, interview by author, September 11, 2003.
20 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 158.
21 Phoebe Brand, interview by author, April 13, 2002.
22 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 158.
23 Ibid.
24 Donald Bogle, interview by author, June 25, 2003.
25 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 135.
26 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 160.
27 Donald Bogle, interview by author.
28 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 162.
29 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
30 Olga James, interview by author.
31 Brock Peters, interview by author.
32 Olga James, interview by author.
33 Brock Peters, interview by author.
34 Olga James, interview by author.
35 Brock Peters, interview by author.
36 Olga James, interview by author.
37 Donald Bogle, interview by author.
38 Bogle, Dandridge, p. 303.
39 Reviews quoted in ibid., p. 206.
40 Donald Bogle, interview by author.
41 Larkin Ford, interview by author, May 31, 2003.
42 Ibid.
43 Ibid.
44 Mills, Dandridge, p. 194.
45 Ibid., p. 192.
46 Bogle, Dandridge, p. 333.
47 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 173.
48 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
8 “CHICAGO”
1 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
2 Ibid.
3 Preminger, Preminger, p. 111.
4 Nelson Algren, Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1977.
5 Ibid.
6 David Castronovo, Beyond the Gray Flannel Man: Books from the 1950s That Made American Culture (New York: Continuum, 2005), p. 98.
7 Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm (New York: Doubleday, 1949), pp. 184–85.
8 Preminger, Preminger, p. 111.
9 Ibid.
10 Preminger, Preminger, p. 112.
11 Preminger quoted in Evelyn Herbert, “The Man Who Changed the Moral Code,” Pageant, September 1956.
12 Preminger quoted in New York Journal American, May 27, 1962.
13 Frank Sinatra, interview by Val Robins, August 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
14 Darren McGavin quoted in Pageant, September 1956.
15 Frank Sinatra, interview by Val Robins.
16 Ibid.
17 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
18 Preminger quoted in Washington Post, August 12, 1980.
19 Preminger and McGavin quoted in Pageant, September 1956.
20 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
21 Saul Bass, interview by Val Robins.
22 Ibid.
23 Preminger, Preminger, p. 136.
24 Mike Beck quoted in Pageant, September 1956.
25 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 112.
26 Preminger quoted in New York Post, January 29, 1956.
27 Preminger, Preminger, p. 114.
28 Saul Bass, interview by Val Robins.
29 Preminger quoted by Nelson Algren, Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1977.
30 Nelson Algren, “… But Most of All I Remember Otto,” Chicago Sun Times, May 21, 1972.
31 31 Algren, Los Angeles Times, May 15, 1977.
9 MISS IOWA
1 Preminger in trailer quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 118.
2 Otto Preminger, “The Making of Saint Joan.”
3 Preminger on CBC, September 9, 1956, quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 119.
4 Rita Moriarty, interview by author, December 14, 2001.
5 Lionel Larner, interview by author, February 20, 2002.
6 Preminger quoted in New York Morning-Telegraph, October 3, 1956.
7 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
8 Preminger and Jean Seberg quoted in David Richards, Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 74.
9 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
10 Richards, Played Out, p. 35.
11 Ibid., p. 36.
12 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
13 Letter in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
14 Lionel Larner, interview by author.
15 Ibid.
16 Rita Moriarty, interview by author.
17 Ibid.
18 Lionel Larner, interview by author.
19 Richards, Played Out, p. 49.
20 Ibid., p. 43.
21 Ibid., p. 49.
22 John Gielgud quoted in Sheridan Morley, John Gielgud (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2002), p. 312.
23 Lionel Larner, interview by author.
24 Rita Moriarty, interview by author.
25 Bob Willoughby quoted in Richards, Played Out, p. 48.
26 Preminger, Preminger, p. 153.
27 Richards, Played Out, p. 52.
28 Preminger quoted in ibid., p. 51.
29 Preminger quoted in ibid., p. 58.
30 Preminger quoted in ibid., p. 43.
31 Preminger, Preminger, p. 153.
32 Ibid.
33 Arthur Laurents, interview by author.
34 Ibid.
35 Hope Preminger, interview by author, June 2, July 5 and 12, September 14, and December 11, 2001; February 8, March 11, April 5, May 2, and November 15 and 16, 2002; February 20, 2003; and June 3 and 4, 2004.
36 Martin Schute, interview by author, July 16, 2001.
37 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
38 Deborah Kerr, interview by Val Robins, August 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
39 Geoffrey Horne, interview by author, December 4 and 18, 2001.
40 Deborah Kerr, interview by Val Robins.
41 Martin Schute, interview by author.
42 Geoffrey Horne, interview by author.
43 Ibid.
44 Ibid.
45 Sheridan Morley, The Other Side of the Moon: A Biography of David Niven (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), p. 202.
46 Deborah Kerr, interview by Val Robins.
47 Mart
in Schute, interview by author.
48 Geoffrey Horne, interview by author.
49 Martin Schute, interview by author.
50 Rita Moriarty interview by author.
51 Martin Schute, interview by author.
52 Arthur Laurents, interview by author.
53 Geoffrey Horne, interview by author.
54 Excerpts from reviews in Saturday Review and New Yorker quoted in Richards, Played Out, p. 70.
55 Arthur Laurents, interview by author.
56 Deborah Kerr, interview by Val Robins.
57 François Moreuil quoted in Richards, Played Out, p. 74.
58 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
59 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 10, 1960.
10 CENSORED!
1 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
2 Kim Hunter, interview by author, November 10, 2001.
3 Lisa Aronson, interview by author, June 15, 2005.
4 Kim Hunter, interview by author.
5 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
6 Ibid.
7 Mrs. Otto Preminger (Mary Gardner) quoted in Los Angeles Times, January 6, 1957.
8 Quoted in Los Angeles Herald Examiner, February 15, 1957.
9 Quoted in Los Angeles Times, March 6, 1958.
10 Mrs. Otto Preminger (Mary Gardner) quoted in Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1958.
11 Gilbert Gardner, interview by author.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Preminger, Preminger, p. 121.
15 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
16 Eve Preminger, interview by author.
17 Willi Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 167.
18 Martin Schute, interview by author.
19 Willi Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 169.
20 Preminger quoted in Tom Ryan, Otto Preminger Films Exodus: A Report (New York: Random House, 1960), n.p.
21 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
22 Preminger, Preminger, p. 166.
23 Leon Uris, interview by author, June 19, 2002.
24 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
25 Hollis Alpert, The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess: The Story of an American Classic (New York: Knopf, 1990), p. 259.
26 Preminger, Preminger, p. 188.
27 Lee Gershwin and Samuel Goldwyn quoted in A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn (New York: Knopf, 1989), p. 479.
28 Samuel Goldwyn quoted in Alpert, Porgy and Bess, p. 261.
29 N. Richard Nash quoted in Carol Easton, The Search for Goldwyn (New York: William Morrow, 1975), p. 277.
30 Ingo Preminger, interview by author.
31 Preminger, Preminger, p. 136.
32 Rouben Mamoulian quoted in Berg, Goldwyn, p. 485.
33 Leigh Whipper quoted in ibid., p. 485.
34 Irving Lazar quoted in ibid., p. 485.
35 Preminger quoted in Movie, London, No. 4, November 1962.
36 Preminger quoted in Berg, Goldwyn, p. 486.
37 Anonymous article in black newspaper and Samuel Goldwyn quoted in Easton, Search, p. 280.
38 Brock Peters, interview by author.
39 Donald Bogle, interview by author.
40 Dandridge and Conrad, Everything and Nothing, p. 167.
41 Ibid., p. 190.
42 Sidney Poitier quoted in Bogle, Dandridge, p. 413.
43 Nichelle Nichols quoted in Bogle, Dandridge, p. 420.
44 Brock Peters, interview by author.
45 Preminger, Preminger, p. 138.
46 Brock Peters, interview by author.
47 Ibid.
48 Ibid.
49 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
50 Brock Peters, interview by author.
51 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 125.
52 Preminger, Preminger, p. 137.
53 Arthur Marx, Goldwyn: A Biography of the Man Behind the Myth (New York: Norton, 1976), p. 350.
54 Ibid.
55 Samuel Goldwyn quoted in Berg, Goldwyn, p. 485.
56 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
57 Donald Bogle, interview by author.
58 William Hoffman, Sidney (New York: William Morrow, 1971), quoted in Easton, Search, p. 276.
59 Brock Peters, interview by author.
11 ON TRIAL
1 Wendell Mayes, interview by Val Robins, July 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
2 Boris Leven and Preminger quoted in Richard Griffith, Anatomy of a Motion Picture (New York: St. Martin’s, 1959), n.p.
3 Lee Remick quoted in Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 171.
4 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
5 Preminger, Preminger, p. 155.
6 Preminger quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 129.
7 Lana Turner quoted in Los Angeles Herald Tribune, March 1, 1959.
8 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
9 George C. Scott, interview by Val Robins, August 1989, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
10 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Times, March 4, 1959.
11 Rita Moriarty interview by author.
12 James Stewart, interview by Val Robins, August 1990, typescript in files of Otto Preminger Films, Inc.
13 Rita Moriarty, interview by author.
14 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Times, March 2, 1959.
15 Rita Moriarty, interview by author.
16 Ben Gazzara, interview by author, May 21, 2002.
17 George C. Scott, interview by Val Robins.
18 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
19 Kathryn Grant, interview by author, August 29, 2002.
20 Preminger, Preminger, p. 155.
21 Ray Stark quoted in New York Times, May 5, 1959.
22 James Stewart, interview by Val Robins.
23 Preminger, Preminger, p. 157.
24 Ibid., p. 158.
25 Wendell Mayes, interview by Val Robins.
26 Agent and Preminger quoted in New York Sunday News, July 25, 1965.
27 Preminger quoted in Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 177.
28 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
29 Preminger quoted in unsourced newspaper clipping, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library.
12 IN THE PROMISED LAND
1 Preminger, Preminger, p. 166.
2 Leon Uris, interview by author.
3 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
4 Meyer Weisgal, Meyer Weisgal… So Far: An Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1971), p. 314.
5 Preminger quoted in New York Post, July 13, 1959.
6 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
7 Weisgal, Meyer Weisgal, p. 314.
8 Preminger quoted in Ryan, Otto Preminger Films Exodus, n.p.
9 Martin Schute, interview by author.
10 Dalton Trumbo quoted in New York Post, November 29, 1961.
11 Preminger on CBC, February 24, 1961, quoted in Pratley, Cinema, p. 135.
12 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 182.
13 Eva Monley, interview by author, July 17, 2001.
14 Martin Schute, interview by author.
15 Preminger press conference reported in New York Times, December 9, 1959.
16 Preminger quoted in Variety, January 20, 1960.
17 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
18 Weisgal, Meyer Weisgal, p. 314.
19 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
20 Eva Monley, interview by author.
21 Martin Schute, interview by author.
22 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
23 Martin Schute, interview by author.
24 Eva Monley, interview by author.
25 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
26 Preminger quoted in Burt Glenn, “Preminger in Israel,” Esquire, March 1961.
27 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
28 Jill Haworth, interview by author, June 4, 2003.
29 Martin Schute, interview by author.
30 Michael Wager, interview by author, September 13, 2001.
31 Eva Marie Saint, interview by author, February 5, 2002.
32 Michael Wager, interview by author.
33 Hope Preminger, interview by author, June 2, 2001.
34 Eva Monley, interview by author.
35 Martin Schute, interview by author.
36 Lee J. Cobb quoted in Helen Lawrenson, “Is It True What They Say about Otto?” McCall’s, March 1965.
37 Anonymous crew member quoted in ibid.
38 Weisgal, Meyer Weisgal, p. 316.
39 Michael Wager, interview by author.
40 Anonymous crew member quoted in Lawrenson, “Is It True?”
41 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
42 Ibid.
43 Jill Haworth, interview by author.
44 Martin Schute, interview by author.
45 Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 185.
46 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
13 PLAYING WASHINGTON
1 Preminger quoted in Los Angeles Examiner, October 4, 1960.
2 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
3 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
4 Preminger quoted in New York Herald Tribune, December 11, 1960.
5 Preminger quoted in New York World-Telegram, February 16, 1960.
6 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
7 Details of town house from Rita Reif “Otto Preminger: Life in a Push-Button World,” New York Times, August 11, 1967.
8 Preminger quoted in Earl Wilson, Los Angeles Mirror, March 25, 1961.
9 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
10 Preminger quoted in New York Herald Tribune, November 3, 1963.
11 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
12 Lawrenson, “Is It True?”
13 Hope Preminger, interview by author.
14 Preminger quoted in New York Times, May 28, 1961.
15 Preminger quoted in New York World-Telegram and Sun, February 16, 1961.
16 Preminger quoted in ibid., February 6, 1961.
17 James Spada, Peter Lawford: The Man Who Kept the Secrets (New York: Bantam Books, 1991), p. 278.
18 Preminger quoted in Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 201.
19 Don Murray, interview by author, August 20, 2002.
20 George Grizzard, interview by author, October 1, 2002.
21 Paul Green, interview by author, May 13, 2002.
22 George Grizzard, interview by author.
23 Preminger quoted in Frischauer, Behind the Scenes, p. 203.
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