Jill Haworths 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.
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 
