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Otto Preminger: LAURA (1944, 88 Min) Online Versions of the Goldenrod Handouts Have Color Images & Hot Links September 18, 2018 (XXXVII:4) Otto Preminger: LAURA (1944, 88 min) Online versions of The Goldenrod Handouts have color images & hot links: http://csac.buffalo.edu/goldenrodhandouts.html DIRECTED BY Otto Preminger WRITTEN BY Vera Caspary (novel), Jay Dratler (screen play), Samuel Hoffenstein (screen play), Elizabeth Reinhardt (screen play), and Ring Lardner Jr. (uncredited) PRODUCED BY Otto Preminger Great Love). As Nazism was rising in Continental Europe, MUSIC David Raksin Preminger moved to the U.S. to direct on Broadway in 1936. CINEMATOGRAPHY Joseph LaShelle (director of Until the great success of his 1944 film Laura, he alternated photography) and Lucien Ballard (uncredited) between directing for stage and film. In the following two FILM EDITING Louis R. Loeffler decades after the release of Laura, he was ranked as one of the ART DIRECTION Leland Fuller and Lyle R. Wheeler top filmmakers in the world. In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed SET DECORATION Thomas Little films that pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with COSTUME DESIGN Bonnie Cashin topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy AWARDS of a Murder, 1959) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, Academy Awards, USA 1945 1962). In the mid-1960s his work began to receive less-positive critical attention. Winner Best Cinematography, Black-and-White: He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Joseph LaShelle Director in 1945 and 1964 for Laura (1944) and The Cardinal (1963), respectively, and Best Picture in 1960 for Anatomy of a Nominations Best Actor in a Supporting Role: Clifton Murder (1959). Some of his other directorial efforts include: Webb Danger - Love at Work (1937); In the Meantime and Darling in Best Director: Otto Preminger 1944; A Royal Scandal (1945); Forever Amber and Daisy Best Writing, Screenplay: Jay Dratler, Kenyon in 1947; The Fan (1949); Whirlpool and Where the Samuel Hoffenstein, Elizabeth Reinhardt Sidewalk Ends in 1950; The Moon Is Blue (1953); River of No Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Return and Carmen Jones in 1954; The Court-Martial of Billy Black-and-White: Lyle R. Wheeler, Mitchell (1955), Saint Joan (1957), Bonjour Tristesse (1958), Leland Fuller, Thomas Little Porgy and Bess (1959), and Exodus (1960); In Harm's Way and Bunny Lake Is Missing in 1965; Hurry Sundown (1967), Tell Me Selected for National Film Registry by the National Film That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970), Such Good Friends Preservation Board, 1999 (1971), Rosebud (1975), and The Human Factor (1979). He has 31 credits as producer, and he acted in 14 films CAST and television series, including: The Pied Piper (1942); Margin Gene Tierney...Laura Hunt for Error and They Got Me Covered in 1943; Where Do We Go Dana Andrews...Det. Lt. Mark McPherson from Here? (1945); The Billy Rose Show (1951, TV Series); Clifton Webb...Waldo Lydecker Stalag 17 and Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach in 1953; Suspense Vincent Price...Shelby Carpenter (1954, TV Series); Exodus (1960), Bunny Lake Is Missing Judith Anderson...Ann Treadwell (1965), Batman (1966, TV Series), Skidoo (1968), The Hobbit (1977, TV Movie), and Our Corpses Still Live (1981). OTTO PREMINGER (b. December 5, 1905 in Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary [now Vyzhnytsia, Chernivetska JOSEPH LASHELLE (b. July 9, 1900 in Los Angeles, oblast, Ukraine]—d. April 23, 1986 (age 80) in New York City, California—d. August 20, 1989 (age 89) in La Jolla, California) New York) directed his first of 43 films in 1931, the Austrian did cinematography for 75 films. He won the Academy Award release, Die große Liebe (released in the U.S. in 1932 as The for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White in 1945 for Laura Preminger—LAURA—2 (1944). He was nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and- in the Desert in 1949; Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950), The White in 1951 for Come to the Stable (1949), 1953 for My Frogmen (1951), and Elephant Walk (1954); While the City Cousin Rachel (1952), 1956 for Marty (1955), 1960 for Career Sleeps and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt in 1956; Curse of the (1959), 1961 for The Apartment (1960), and 1967 for The Demon (1957); The Crowded Sky and General Electric Theater Fortune Cookie (1966). In 1964, he was nominated for Best (TV Series) in 1960; Madison Avenue (1961); The Dick Powell Cinematography, Color for Irma la Douce (1963), and he shared Theatre (1962-1963, TV Series); In Harm's Way, Crack in the a nomination in the same category with William H. Daniels, World, The Loved One, and Battle of the Bulge in 1965; Johnny Milton R. Krasner, and Charles Lang for How the West Was Won Reno (1966), The Ten Million Dollar Grab (1967), Night Gallery (1962). He also did cinematography for films such as: Happy (1971, TV Series), Innocent Bystanders (1972), Airport 1975 Land (1943); Bermuda Mystery and Take It or Leave It in 1944; (1974), The Last Tycoon (1976), Good Guys Wear Black (1978), A Bell for Adano and Fallen Angel in 1945; Cluny Brown (1946); Ike: The War Years (1979, TV Mini-Series), The Pilot (1980), The Late George Apley, The Foxes of Harrow and Captain from Falcon Crest (1982-1983, TV Series), and Prince Jack (1984). Castile in 1947; Road House (1948); The Fan and Everybody Does It in 1949; Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) and Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951); The Outcasts of Poker Flat and Les Miserables in 1952; River of No Return (1954); My Friend Flicka (1955, TV Series); The Conqueror and Our Miss Brooks in 1956; The Bachelor Party and I Was a Teenage Werewolf in 1957; The Long, Hot Summer and The Naked and the Dead in 1958; The Outsider (1961), A Child Is Waiting (1963), and Kiss Me, Stupid (1964); 7 Women and The Chase in 1966; and 80 Steps to Jonah (1969). LUCIEN BALLARD (b. May 6, 1904 in Miami, Oklahoma—d. October 1, 1988 (age 84) in Rancho Mirage, California) did cinematography for 150 films and television series. In 1964, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White for The Caretakers (1963). Some of his other film and television credits include: Morocco (1930); The Devil Is a Woman and Crime and Punishment in 1935; The King Steps Out (1936); Devil's Playground, Venus Makes Trouble, and The Shadow in 1937; Penitentiary and Rio GENE TIERNEY (b. November 19, 1920 in Brooklyn, New Grande in 1938; Texas Stampede (1939) and The Outlaw (1943); York City, New York—d. November 6, 1991 (age 70) in The Lodger, Sweet and Low-Down, and Laura in 1944; This Love Houston, Texas) acted in 41 films and television series. She was of Ours (1945), Berlin Express (1948), The House on Telegraph nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Hill (1951), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), The Desert Rats Role in 1946 for her role in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Some (1953), and White Feather (1955); A Kiss Before Dying, The of her other acting credits include: The Return of Frank James Killing, and The King and Four Queens in 1956; Anna Lucasta (1940); Hudson's Bay, Tobacco Road, Belle Starr, and Sundown (1958) and Al Capone (1959); The Rise and Fall of Legs in 1941; Thunder Birds: Soldiers of the Air and China Girl in Diamond and The Detectives (TV Series) in 1960; Walt Disney's 1942; Heaven Can Wait (1943), Laura (1944), and A Bell for Wonderful World of Color (1959-1961, TV Series); Ride the Adano (1945); Dragonwyck and The Razor's Edge in 1946; The High Country (1962); The Dick Powell Theatre (1961-1963, TV Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947); The Iron Curtain and That Series); Take Her, She's Mine (1963), The Sons of Katie Elder Wonderful Urge in 1948; Whirlpool, Night and the City, and (1965), Nevada Smith (1966), and Will Penny (1967); True Grit Where the Sidewalk Ends in 1950; The Mating Season, On the and The Wild Bunch in 1969; The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970); Riviera, and Close to My Heart in 1951; Way of a Gaucho Junior Bonner and The Getaway in 1972; St. Ives and From (1952); The Egyptian and Black Widow in 1954; The Left Hand Noon Till Three in 1976; My Kingdom For... (1985, of God (1955) and Advise & Consent (1962); Toys in the Attic Documentary). and Four Nights of the Full Moon in 1963; The F.B.I. (TV Series) and Daughter of the Mind (TV Movie) in 1969; Scruples DANA ANDREWS (b. January 1, 1909 in Covington County, (1980, TV Mini-Series). Mississippi—d. December 17, 1992 (age 83) in Los Alamitos, California) acted in 105 films and television series, including: CLIFTON WEBB (b. November 19, 1889 in Indianapolis, Lucky Cisco Kid, Kit Carson, and The Westerner in 1940; Indiana—d. October 13, 1966 (age 76) in Beverly Hills, Los Tobacco Road, Belle Starr, Swamp Water, and Ball of Fire in Angeles, California) appeared in 27 films. He was once 1941; Berlin Correspondent (1942); Crash Dive, The Ox-Bow nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Incident, The North Star, and December 7th in 1943; Up in Arms, Role in 1949 for Sitting Pretty (1948) and was nominated twice The Purple Heart, Wing and a Prayer, and Laura in 1944; State for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1945 and 1947 for Laura Fair, Fallen Angel, and A Walk in the Sun in 1945; The Best (1944) and The Razor's Edge (1946), respectively. Some of his Years of Our Lives (1946); Boomerang! and Daisy Kenyon in other films are: National Red Cross Pageant (1917), Polly with a 1947; The Iron Curtain (1948); The Forbidden Street and Sword Past (1920), and Let Not Man Put Asunder (1924); New Toys and Preminger—LAURA—3 The Heart of a Siren in 1925; The Dark Corner (1946) and Mr.
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