Otto Preminger
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Otto Ludwig Preminger (December 5, 1906 – April 23, 1986) was an Austrian actor and film director.
The production code and foreign films
At the forefront of challenges to the American Production Code was director Otto Preminger, whose films violated the code repeatedly in the 1950s. His 1953 film The Moon is Blue, about a young woman who tries to play two suitors off against each other by claiming that she plans to keep her virginity until marriage, was the first film to use the words "virgin", "seduce" and "mistress", and it was released without a certificate of approval. He later made The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which portrayed the prohibited subject of drug abuse, and Anatomy of a Murder (1959) which dealt with rape. Preminger's films were direct assaults on the authority of the Production Code and, since they were successful, hastened its abandonment.
Filmography
- Die große Liebe (1931)
- Under Your Spell (1936)
- Danger, Love at Work (1937)
- Kidnapped (1938)
- Clare Booth Luce's Margin for Error (U.S.) also known as Margin for Error (UK) (1943)
- In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
- Laura (1944)
- A Royal Scandal (U.S.) also known as Czarina (UK) (1945)
- Fallen Angel (1945)
- Forever Amber (1947)
- Daisy Kenyon (1947)
- The Fan (U.S.) also known as Lady Windermere's Fan (UK) (1949)
- Whirlpool (1949)
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
- The 13th Letter (1951)
- Angel Face (1952)
- Stalag 17 (1953)
- The Moon Is Blue (1953)
- Carmen Jones (1954)
- River of No Return (1954)
- The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (U.S.) also known as One Man Mutiny (UK) (1955)
- The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)
- Saint Joan (1957)
- Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
- Porgy and Bess (1959)
- Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
- Exodus (1960)
- Advise and Consent (1962)
- The Cardinal (1963)
- In Harm's Way (1964)
- Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
- Hurry Sundown (1967)
- Skidoo (1968)
- Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
- Such Good Friends (1971)
- Rosebud (1975)
- The Human Factor (1979)
