LAURA by Otto Preminger
USA, 1944, 88’
The police inspector Mark McPherson has to investigate on the murder of Laura Hunt, a beautiful advertising director who has been found with her face disfigured in her own apartment. Thanks to the testimonies of her friends and by reading her letters and her diary, McPherson starts to get to know Laura and fall in love with her.
Otto Preminger, born Otto Ludwig Preminger (Vyžnycja, 5 december 1905 – New York, 23 april 1986), began his career as an actor in Germany with a great theatrical Max Reinhardt, debuting as a film director in 1931.
In 1934 he arrives in Hollywood, where he becomes one of the important genre films director, mostly noir and melodrama but also high-brow films such as Bonjour Tristesse. As an actor he is mostly famous for his role in Stalag 17, directed by Billy Wilder.
FILMOGRAPHY
Die Große Liebe (1931)
Under Your Spell (1936)
Danger-Love at Work (1937)
Kidnapped (1938)
Margin for Error (1943)
In the Meantime, Darling (1944)
Laura (1944)
Fallen Angel (1945)
A Royal Scandal (1945)
Centennial Summer (1946)
Forever Amber (1947)
Daisy Kenyon (1947)
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
The Fan (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
The 13th Letter (1951)
Angel Face (1952)
The Moon is Blue (1953)
Carmen Jones (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
Saint Joan (1957)
Bonjour Tristesse) (1957)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Exodus (1960)
Advise & Consent (1962)
The Cardinal (1963)
In Harm's Way (1965)
Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
Hurry Sundown (1966)
Skidoo (1968)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)
Such Good Friends (1971)
Rosebud (1974)
The Human Factor (1979)
