Nothing about Otto Preminger was small or trivialfrom his privileged upbringing in Vienna as the son of an improbably successful Jewish lawyer to his work in film and theater in Europe and, later, in America. His range as a director was remarkable: romantic comedies ( The Moon Is Blue); musicals ( Carmen Jones; Porgy and Bess); courtroom dramas ( The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell; Anatomy of a Murder); adaptations...