Curiosidades

Directed 3 actors to Oscar nominations: Joan Crawford (Best Actress, Precipícios d'Alma (1952)), Jack Palance (Best Supporting Actor, Precipícios d'Alma (1952)), and Bobby Darin (Best Supporting Actor, Pavilhão 7 (1963)).

After leaving high school, Miller worked for the National Screen Service as a messenger boy. Moving steadily up the ladder, he started directing Pete Smith educational documentaries at MGM from 1935. Two of these short features, "Penny Wisdom" and "Seeds of Destiny", won Academy Awards. From 1941, he handled feature films in a variety of genres. The quality of his films has been inconsistent, but he seemed most comfortable turning out slick thrillers like Precipícios d'Alma (1952), A Teia de Renda Negra (1960) and O Assassinato de um Presidente (1973).

After reviewing Miller's busy but largely anonymous directing career in his 1968 book "The American Cinema", the critic Andrew Sarris ended by famously asking, "Who is David Miller?".