Flashback: Jean Seberg and Otto Preminger

This episode was originally released on July 4, 2017. Listen to help prep for the next episode of our new season, The Old Man is Still Alive. Jean Seberg made her first two films, Saint Joan and Bonjour Tristesse, for director Otto Preminger, a tyrannical svengali character whose methods would traumatize Jean for the rest of her life and career. No wonder she rebelled against this bad dad figure by marrying a handsome French opportunist. Meanwhile, Jane Fonda moves to New York, joins the Actors Studio, takes up with her own hyper-controlling male partner, and tries to define herself as something other than Henry Fonda’s daughter. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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Flashback: Jean Seberg and Otto Preminger is an episode from You Must Remember This by Karina Longworth.

This episode is 61:27 long.

This episode was published on Feb 21, 2025.

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