The Man with the Golden Girls
Otto Preminger: often seen in the company of blondes.
Jean Seberg in BONJOUR TRISTESSE.
Lee Remick in ANATOMY OF A MURDER.
Jill Haworth (and Patricia Neal) in IN HARM’S WAY.
Carol Lynley (with Keir “Dave” Dullea) in BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING.
There seems a pattern to these pixie-like blondes. And Maggie McNamara and Jean Simmons have pixie qualities too, even though they’re brunettes. But then one recalls Otto’s flings with Gypsy Rose Lee (who gave him a son) and Dorothy Dandridge, and one realises that even if there is a Preminger “type”, he’s far from predictable.
March 23, 2008 at 6:47 pm
There’s a pattern to their framing on screen too. Seberg’s face is so damned haunting.
March 23, 2008 at 8:18 pm
I’m fascinated by Godard’s remarks re A Bout De Souffle being a follow-up to Bonjour Tristesse. I sense a Fever Dream Double Feature.
The book Fade to Black, giving accounts of Hollywood celebrity deaths, has about ten pages on Seberg — her whole life reads like a dress rehearsal for suicide.