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Also Known As Otto Ludwig Preminger
Born December 5, 1905 • Ukraine
Died April 23, 1986 (aged 80) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Advise & Consent” • “Anatomy of a Murder” • “Carmen Jones” • “Exodus” • “Hurry Sundown” • “In Harm’s Way” • “Laura” • “Skidoo” • “Such Good Friends” • “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon” • “The Cardinal” • “The Human Factor” • “The Man with the Golden Arm”

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Laura
Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte face each other in an intense moment from the film Carmen Jones, with Dandridge in a strapless dress and Belafonte in a suit and hat.
Portrait of Otto Preminger wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and striped tie, looking at the camera with a slight smile.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Charles Laughton, left, and Walter Pidgeon, right, argue intensely in a Senate chamber scene from the film Advise and Consent (1962), with other men seated behind them.
Harry Belafonte, wearing a dark jacket and hat, looks to the side in a dramatic scene from the film Carmen Jones, with a gymnasium sign visible in the background.
Title graphics for Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, designed by Saul Bass, 1959.
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