A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

Posted on December 17, 2009 by lmharnisch
 
Dec. 17, 1954, Hedda Hopper 
Dec. 17, 1954, Hedda hopper  
Dec. 17, 1954: Otto Preminger would like to team up Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge after “Carmen Jones,” but “Porgy and Bess” is tied up.

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1 Response to A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

  1. Arye Michael Bendeer's avatar Arye Michael Bendeer says:
    December 17, 2009 at 8:36 pm

    Difficult to imagine the notoriously volatile Otto Preminger in the company of Mahatma Gandhi. If any of Gandhi’s humility rubbed off, it certainly wasn’t on display in public.
    Preminger was more bluster than finesse. Although sometimes bluster was all that was needed for his pictures.

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