Claim: Jill Haworth’s first acting role was in a feature film by Preminger, an Austro-Hungarian-born theatre and film director whose full name is Otto Ludwig Preminger.
Evidence: She was only 15 years old when she was cast as Karen Hansen in her first acting role in a feature film. Otto Preminger was seeking a new fresh face for the role of Karen Hansen, an ill-fated Jewish-Danish refugee girl in love with Dov Landau (Sal Mineo), for his film Exodus (1960). Otto Preminger, film director Otto Preminger – director