Jean Negulesco
Directing
Born 1900-02-26
Died 1993-07-18
Craiova, Dolj, Romania
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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.
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Filmography
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Jessica
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Titanic
How to Marry a Millionaire
The Sea Hawk
Daddy Long Legs
O. Henry's Full House
Boy on a Dolphin
Three Coins in the Fountain
Johnny Belinda
City for Conquest
The Best of Everything
The Mask of Dimitrios
Swiss Miss
Road House
Humoresque
Expensive Husbands
Three Strangers
Rio
Phone Call from a Stranger
Woman's World
Three Came Home
Fight for Your Lady
The Conspirators
This Is the Night
Take Care of My Little Girl
A Certain Smile
Deep Valley
Crash Donovan
The Mudlark
Singapore Woman
Lure of the Wilderness
Biganeh Biya
The Pleasure Seekers
The Rains of Ranchipur
Nobody Lives Forever
Scandal at Scourie
Alice in Movieland
Hello-Goodbye
Six Hits and a Miss
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Lydia Bailey
The Beloved Brat
The Gift of Love
At the Stroke of Twelve
Three Cheers for the Girls
The Flag of Humanity
The Invincible Six
The Gay Parisian
Count Your Blessings
Those Good Old Days
The Forbidden Street
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Over the Wall
Spanish Fiesta
The Playgirls
Roaring Guns
Food and Magic
The United States Service Bands
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