Otto Preminger

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1. #001

   For his role in the 1966 Batman series, Preminger was paid $2,500, the standard fee for actors appearing in the show after requesting a role. The Screen Actors Guild got word of this and ordered none of its members to work for Preminger until he paid his SAG dues for his Batman appearance and various other sums he had owed the guild since the start of his acting career. As a result, playing Mr. Freeze cost Preminger $7,600 out of his own pocket.

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2. #002

   Otto Preminger directed nine different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Clifton Webb, Maggie McNamara, Dorothy Dandridge, Frank Sinatra, James Stewart, Arthur O'Connell, George C. Scott, Sal Mineo and John Huston.

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3. #003

   While living in Vienna, Otto Preminger earned a law degree.

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4. #004

   While making Carmen Jones (1954), Otto Preminger began a four-year relationship with the film's star, Dorothy Dandridge. The relationship was portrayed in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999).

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5. #005

   Otto Preminger insisted that Robert Mitchum slap Jean Simmons for her scenes in Angel Face (1952). After several takes that Preminger refused to print, Mitchum punched him and knocked him to the ground.

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6. #006

   Otto Preminger was the father of producer-screenwriter Erik Lee Preminger, with the ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee.

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7. #007

   At the premiere of Exodus (1960), the Jewish comedian Mort Sahl was reportedly heard shouting "Otto, let my people go!", which was ironic given that Preminger was Jewish.

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8. #008

   After his death, Otto Preminger was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York.

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9. #009

   From 1933 to 1935, Otto Preminger was general director of the Josefstadt Theatre in Vienna.

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10. #010

    Otto Preminger was portrayed by Klaus Maria Brandauer in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999) and by Christian Berkel in Trumbo (2015).

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11. #011

    Otto Preminger was preparing a drama about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to be titled "Open Question", but he died before he could realize the project.

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12. #012

    Otto Preminger had twins with Hope Bryce: Victoria and Mark, born on 3 October 1960 (they were 11 years old when their parents married).

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13. #013

    Before emigrating from Austria to the United States, Otto Preminger collaborated with Max Reinhardt.

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14. #014

    Otto Preminger was interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's book "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations with Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh." NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

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15. #015

    Otto Preminger's father was a distinguished lawyer, and Otto planned to go into law, but he was drawn to the theatre and became the most imaginative producer-director of the 1920s.

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16. #016

    In 1935, Otto Preminger went to America on a film directing contract with 20th Century Fox and became one of the first producer-directors.

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17. #017

    Otto Preminger was a jury member at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

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18. #018

    Otto Preminger was named the 47th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

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19. #019

    Otto Preminger was the brother of producer Ingo Preminger.

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20. #020

    Biography: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945." Pages 888-898. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1987.

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