What is Otto Preminger?
{{Infobox person | name = Otto Preminger | image = Otto Preminger Allan Warren.jpg | imagesize = | caption = Preminger in 1976, by Allan Warren | birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|12|5|df=y}} | birth_place = Vyzhnytsia, Wiznitz, Austria–Hungary (present Vyzhnytsia, [[Ukraine]]) | death_date = {{Death date and age|1986|4|23|1905|12|5|df=y}} | death_place = [[New York City]], [[New York (state)|New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] | occupation = {{hlist|Director|producer|actor}} | years_active = 1931–86 | spouse = {{marriage|Marion Mill|1932|1946}}<br>{{marriage|Mary Gardner|1951|1959}}<br>{{marriage|Hope Bryce|1971|1986}} }} '''Otto Ludwig Preminger''' (5 December 1905 – 23 April 1986) <!-- Born 1905 per Social Security Death Index (http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi) and his own gravestone/niche, [[File:The Niche of Otto Preminger in Woodlawn Cemetery.jpg|thumb|The niche of Otto Preminger in [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]]]]) -->was an [[Austria–Hungary|Austrian]]-[[United States|American]] movie director and producer, theatre director, and actor. ==Early life== Preminger was born on December 5, 1905 in Vyzhnytsia, Wiznitz, Austria–Hungary (present Vyzhnytsia, [[Ukraine]]) to [[Jew]]s Markus and Josefa Preminger.<ref>{{cite book |first=Willi |last=Frischauer |title=Behind the Scenes of Otto Preminger: An Unauthorised Biography |url=https://archive.org/details/behindscenesofot0000fris |year=1973 |publisher=Joseph |location=London |isbn=978-0-7181-1170-0}}</ref> ==Career== After moving from the theatre to [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], he directed over 35 feature movies in a 50 year career. He rose to fame for his stylish movie mysteries such as ''Laura'' (1944) and ''Fallen Angel'' (1945). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the bound