A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movie Columnist

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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[Arye Michael Bendeer]

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.