Fired from 'Anatomy of a Murder'. Too much ego/demands

Actually, that's not true.

Lana confirms in her autobiography that the story about her quitting of her costume was 'ridiculous', and what actually happened was a she and Otto Preminger (the director AND producer) did not get along and she was tired of his rudeness towards her and that the costume story was started by Preminger himself.

James Stewart also confirmed Preminger's bad manners.



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I'm only going by what the bio says. But it also says she was dismissed from HOTEL for being demanding,not that she is guilty by association
But, how did they not "get along"? They didn't even star filming, and already not getting along? I know Otto had a bad rep,but you have to tolerate that in this business at times.

Preminger was heartily disliked by most of his actors. But whatever happened with Lana, she was inappropriate for the role. Too mature at that point. And too famous. Monroe was also considered, and although younger than Lana, she too was established as a "type." (And Preminger simply loathed MM after their work on "River of No Return.") Lee Remick was brilliant and a perfect choice for "Anatomy.".

Although Preminger was well-known for his screaming, Lana was known for her sometimes bizarre MGM-raised "spoiled" demands.

She was pushed off FALCON CREST in the '80s not just because Jane Wyman didn't like her (Lana had, after all, once slept with the husband, Robert Taylor, of Jane's buddy, Barbara Stanwyck) but also because Lana couldn't adjust to the speed of series TV production.

And designer Nolan Miller tells of an incident when they were doing a live show together, and Lana so passive-aggressively ignored her stage cues that they almost wound up with dead air on national TV.

She was known for being quite pleasant on the set, but diva stars of her ilk and era often felt a need to not be too easy to accommodate, to constantly pull rank or else that rank might be threatened. I mean, they were virtually bred that way.

And among that type of star, Lana was one of the biggest.

So the truth is likely in the middle somewhere.

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