A running Hollywood gag in the fifties had sightseers cruising Beverly Hills on a tour of the stars' estates. "Look, there's Otto Preminger's home," one gawker exclaims. "No, that would be a home by ...

Thanks to a string of highly publicized hits like “Exodus” and his appearances as Mr. Freeze on the “Batman” TV series, Otto Preminger was probably the best-known director in America when he released ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the best films screening at this year’s festival is also one that was seriously underrated and misunderstood by both the ...

Thanks to the Nazi roles he played in “Stalag 17” and other movies, Polish-born Otto Preminger was more recognizable than most film directors. But his reputation as an off-screen tyrant has often ...

When Otto Preminger called "Action!" actors invoked their patron saint. Miss a cue, overstep a mark or fluff a line, and the Mt. Etna of film directors erupted, eyes bulging, face scarlet, voice ...

Otto Preminger’s primary problem was that every self-aggrandizing publicity campaign, every outlandishly elongated two-and-a-half-hour movie, implied he was a genius when in fact he only possessed ...

What’s colder than an igloo made from icy Kubricks? Otto Preminger’s oeuvre! Why else was the director the perfect choice to play Batman’s hyperboreal nemesis, Mr. Freeze? In best-selling author ...

Erik Lee Preminger can still vividly remember the moment when he found out, at age 17, that actor Alexander Kirkland, who was married to his mother before his birth, was not his biological father.

THE Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is presenting “A Centennial Tribute to Otto Preminger” this evening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater -- although no one is really sure if 2006 marks the ...

A new restoration undertaken by the Academy Film Archive and Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation will screen this weekend at the 12th annual Cinema Revival Film Festival. One of the best films screening ...