All Entries Tagged With: "Otto Preminger"
Allen Drury
Date of Birth: 2 September 1918 Mini Biography: A former reporter in The New York Times’s Washington bureau, Drury quit the paper when his novel of political intrigue, Advise & Consent, became a bestseller. It won a 1960 Pulitzer Prize, became a Broadway play and was basis for Otto Preminger’s Advise & Consent (1962). He [...]
Jerry Fielding
Date of Birth: 17 June 1922 Birth Name: Joshua Feldman Mini Biography: A three time Oscar nominee, Jerry Fielding was among the boldest and most experimental of all Hollywood film composers. His music typically utilized advanced compositional procedures, producing dense, often richly dissonant orchestral textures, sometimes flavoured with jazz. Fielding’s film music career was marked [...]
Dana Andrews
Date of Birth: 1 January 1909 Birth Name: Carver Dana Andrews Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m) Mini Biography: President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1963 to 1965, Dana Andrews was one of the first to speak out against the degradation of the acting profession, particularly actresses doing nude scenes just to get a role. [...]
Judith Anderson
Date of Birth: 10 February 1897 Birth Name: Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson Mini Biography: Dame Judith Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson on February 10, 1897 in Adelaide, South Australia. She began her acting career in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. There she established herself as one of the greatest theatrical actresses and [...]