Victoria Preminger, daughter of director Otto Preminger, died Feb. 7 in Studio Metropolis, Calif. following a fall at residence. She was 63.
Her mom was actress Hope Bryce Preminger and her uncle was movie producer Ingo Preminger, the literary agent who represented purchasers similar to Dalton Trumbo and Ring Lardner, who have been each blacklisted all through the McCarthy interval.
Born in New York in 1960, Preminger studied on the Lycée Français de New York and later graduated with honors from Smith School. Throughout her undergraduate profession, she starred in a lot of tv cleaning soap operas in addition to the 1988 characteristic “Spike of Bensonhurst,” which was directed by Paul Morrissey.
4 years later, she graduated from Pepperdine College College of Regulation. She spent the next six years producing audiobooks in Beverly Hills, Calif. for Dove Audio, one of many premier audio ebook corporations nationally. She went on to provide, edit and lead celebrities together with Glenda Jackson, Joanne Woodward, Ben Kingsley and Audrey Hepburn of their readings of traditional novels like “Madame Bovary,” “Little Ladies,” “Tarzan” and “The Enchanted Tales.” Her work with Hepburn earned the 1993 Grammy Award for Finest Spoken Phrase and her work with Carl Reiner on Mark Twain’s “The Prince and the Pauper” earned a nomination for the Finest Spoken Phrase Album for Kids Grammy Award.
Along with audio ebook manufacturing, Preminger additionally penned six youngsters’s books for Dove Books’s print division. Amongst her literary works are “Barkley Unleashed: A Pirate’s Tail” and “The Adventures of Woodrow the Woodchuck.”
Preminger ultimately left Dove Audio and joined Rysher/Spelling Leisure, the place she used her authorized background to supervise home tv rights. She produced the 2009 movie “The Northern Kingdom” and the the TV collection “Topped in a Far Nation.”
Following her time at Rysher/Spelling Leisure, Preminger served because the vice chairman of enterprise and authorized affairs at NBC Common.
Preminger was concerned in equestrianism all through a lot of her life, successful many awards for using in horse exhibits and leaping occasions within the Hunter Division. She is survived by her brother Dr. Mark Preminger, in addition to by her half-brother Erik Lee Preminger, the son of actress Gypsy Rose Lee.
