Jean Negulesco
Born: 1900-02-26 in Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Died: 1993-07-18
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean Negulesco (26 February 1900 – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter. Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915 he moved to Vienna, in 1919 to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he went to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and settled there. In 1934 he entered the film industry, first as a sketch artist, then as an assistant producer, second unit director and in the late 1930s he became a director and screenwriter. He made a reputation at Warner Brothers by directing short subjects, particularly a series of band shorts featuring unusual camera angles and dramatic use of shadows and silhouettes. Negulesco's first feature film as director was Singapore Woman (1941). In 1948 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for Johnny Belinda. In 1955, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Film for How to Marry a Millionaire. His 1959 movie The Best of Everything was on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time" list. From the late 1960s, he lived in Marbella, Spain. He died there at age 93, of heart failure. During his Hollywood career and in his 1984 autobiography, Negulesco claimed to have been born on 29 February 1900; he was apparently motivated to make this statement because birthdays on Leap Year Day are comparatively rare. In fact, 1900 was not a leap year, so there was no 29 February in 1900. Negulesco's autobiography (in which this claim appears) is appropriately titled Things I Did and Things I Think I Did. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Negulesco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1970
- The Invincible Six ... (Director)
- Hello-Goodbye ... (Director)
1969
- Biganeh Biya ... (Editor)
1965
- The Greatest Story Ever Told ... (Second Unit Director)
1964
- The Pleasure Seekers ... (Director)
1962
- Jessica ... (Director)
1959
- The Best of Everything ... (Director)
- Count Your Blessings ... (Director)
1958
- The Gift of Love ... (Director)
- A Certain Smile ... (Director)
1957
- Boy on a Dolphin ... (Director)
1956
- The Dark Wave ... (Director)
1955
- Daddy Long Legs ... (Director)
- The Rains of Ranchipur ... (Director)
1954
- Three Coins in the Fountain ... (Director)
- Woman's World ... (Director)
1953
- How to Marry a Millionaire ... (Director)
- Titanic ... (Director)
- Scandal at Scourie ... (Director)
1952
- O. Henry's Full House ... (Director)
- Phone Call from a Stranger ... (Director)
- Lure of the Wilderness ... (Director)
- Lydia Bailey ... (Director)
1951
- Take Care of My Little Girl ... (Director)
1950
- Three Came Home ... (Director)
- Under My Skin ... (Director)
- The Mudlark ... (Director)
1949
- The Forbidden Street ... (Director)
1948
- Road House ... (Director)
- Johnny Belinda ... (Director)
1947
- Humoresque ... (Director)
- Deep Valley ... (Director)
1946
- Three Strangers ... (Director)
- Nobody Lives Forever ... (Director)
1944
- The Mask of Dimitrios ... (Director)
- The Conspirators ... (Director)
- Roaring Guns ... (Director)
1943
- The Voice That Thrilled the World ... (Director)
- Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Three Cheers for the Girls ... (Director)
- All Star Melody Masters ... (Director)
- The United States Service Bands ... (Director)
- Women at War ... (Director)
- The United States Navy Band ... (Director)
- Hit Parade of the Gay Nineties ... (Director)
- Food and Magic ... (Director)
- The United States Army Band ... (Director)
- Over the Wall ... (Director)
- Cavalcade of Dance ... (Director)
1942
- Six Hits and a Miss ... (Director)
- A Ship Is Born ... (Director)
- The Playgirls ... (Director)
- The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady ... (Director)
- The Gay Parisian ... (Director)
- Calling All Girls ... (Director)
- The United States Army Air Force Band ... (Director)
- Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School ... (Director)
- The United States Marine Band ... (Director)
- Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra ... (Director)
- Spanish Fiesta ... (Director)
1941
- At the Stroke of Twelve ... (Director)
- Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos ... (Director)
- Singapore Woman ... (Director)
- Those Good Old Days ... (Director)
- Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Hal Kemp and His Orchestra ... (Director)
1940
- The Sea Hawk ... (Second Unit Director)
- City for Conquest ... (Director)
- The Flag of Humanity ... (Director)
- Alice in Movieland ... (Director)
- Henry Busse and His Orchestra ... (Director)
1939
- Rio ... (Story)
1938
- Swiss Miss ... (Story)
- The Beloved Brat ... (Story)
1937
- Expensive Husbands ... (Screenplay)
- Fight for Your Lady ... (Story)
1936
- Crash Donovan ... (Co-Director)
1932
- This Is the Night ... (Technical Supervisor)