Sat, Jun 15
|Burbank
German Group: Kathy Holland on Otto Preminger
SCGS's German Special Interest Group hosts genealogist and professor Kathy Holland, who will present "The Life of Otto Preminger" on Saturday, June 15, from 1 to 3:45 p.m. at the SCGS Family Research Library in Burbank.
Time & Details
Jun 15, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:50 PM PDT
Burbank, 411 Irving Dr, Burbank, CA 91504, USA
About the Event
The Hungarian-born film director and producer Otto Preminger is known for the cinematic masterpieces Laura, Stalag 17, Carmen Jones, The Anatomy of a Murder, and The Man With the Golden Arm, among many others. Genealogist, professor, and SCGS board officer Kathy Holland will take attendees on the fascinating journey of Preminger's life in a hybrid presentation on June 15 from 1 to 3:45 p.m. at the SCGS Library in Burbank and onlilne.
Dubbed "Otto the Terrible" for his monstrous behavior on set, Preminger was also a maverick in Hollywood. He produced films with taboo subjects, defied the Hays Production Code, and joined the bold and brave who shattered the Hollywood Blacklist in the mid-20th century, which denied work to actors, writers, and other industry workers who were believed to have ties to Communism.
Preminger was born into a Jewish family in 1905 in Wiznitz (Vyzhnytsia), a town west of Czernowitz,…