Jill Haworth was 14 when film director Otto Preminger was looking for a girl with innocence, charme and understanding to play a part in his film "Exodus". Jill was chosen and the American Italian actor Sal Mineo played opposite her. Cannes 1961. - Photo by Edward Quinn

Jill Haworth was 14 when film director Otto Preminger was looking for a girl with innocence, charme and understanding to play a part in his film "Exodus". Jill was chosen and the American Italian actor Sal Mineo played opposite her. Cannes 1961.

Actors Sal Mineo and Jill Haworth, co-stars in the film "Exodus," are serenaded by an ensemble of violinists at an elegant dining establishment in Cannes, 1961. Dressed in a dark tuxedo, Mineo looks forward while Haworth gazes at him from across their small, intimate table. Director Otto Preminger had cast the actress for the role when she was just 14 years old, seeking a girl with "innocence, charme and understanding."


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