1971 Such Good Friends. Screenplay: Esther Dale [Elaine May], based on the novel by Lois Gould. Camera: Gayne Rescher. Art director: Rouben Ter-Arutunian. Editor: Harry Howard. Music: Thomas Z. Shepard. Costume supervisor: Hope Bryce Preminger. Cast: Dyan Cannon (Julie Messinger), James Coco (Dr. Timmy Spector), Jennifer O’Neill (Miranda Graham), Ken Howard (Cal Whitting), Rita Gam (Doria Perkins), Nancy Guild (Molly Hastings), Nina Foch (Mrs. Wall-man), Laurence Luckinbill (Richard Messinger), Louise Lasser (Marcy Berns), Burgess Meredith (Kalman), Sam Levene (Onkel Eddie), William Redfield (Barney Halstead), Doris Roberts (Mrs. Gold), Lawrence Tierney (Wachter), Joseph Papp and his Shakespeare Theater in the Park. Producer: Otto Preminger, for Sigma Productions. Released by Paramount.
1975 Rosebud. Screenplay: Erik Lee Preminger, based on the novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrère; additional dialogue by Marjorie Kellogg, Roy Clark. Camera: Denys Coop. Art director: Michael Seymour. Titles: Saul Bass. Editors: Peter Thornton, Thom Nobble. Music: Laurent Petitgirard. Cast: Peter O’Toole (Larry Martin), Richard Attenborough (Sloat), Cliff Gorman (Hamlekh), Claude Dauphin (Fargeau), John V Lindsay (Senator Donovan), Peter Lawford (Lord Carter), Raf Vallone (George Nikolaos), Adrienne Corri (Lady Carter), Amidou (Kirkbane), Brigitte Ariel (Sabine Fargeau), Isabelle Huppert (Hélène Nikolaos), Lalla Ward (Margaret Carter), Kim Cattrall (Joyce Donovan), Debra Berger
(Gertrude Freyer), Ted Gershuny (Saul). Producer: Otto Preminger. Released by United Artists.
1979 Greene. Camera: Mike Molloy Art director: Ken Ryan. Titles: Saul Bass. Editor: Richard Trevor. Music: Richard Logan, Gary Logan. Costume coordinator: Hope Bryce. Cast: Nicol Williamson (Maurice Castle), Richard Attenborough (Colonel Daintry), John Gielgud (Brigadier Tomlinson), Joop Doderer (Cornelius Muller), Derek Jacobi (Arthur Davis), Robert Morley (Dr. Percival), Ann Todd (Castle’s mother), Iman (Sarah Castle), Richard Vernon (Sir John Hargreaves), Angela Thorne (Lady Hargreaves). Producer: Otto Preminger, for Wheel Productions (London), Sigma Productions (New York). Released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Hirsch, Foster.
Otto Preminger: the man who would be king / by Foster Hirsch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN: 978-0-307-48921-0
1. Preminger, Otto. 2. Motion picture producers and directors—
United States—Biography. 3. Motion picture actors and actresses—United States—Biography. I. Title.
PN1998.3.P743H57 2007
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