Jean Negulesco
Directing
Born: February 26, 1900 · Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Died: July 18, 1993 (aged 93)
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
Known for
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
The Sea Hawk
1940
Titanic
1953
Daddy Long Legs
1955
Johnny Belinda
1948
Swiss Miss
1938
Humoresque
1947
Three Coins in the Fountain
1954
The Mask of Dimitrios
1944
O. Henry's Full House
1952
Road House
1948
Photos (3)
Directing (60)
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Second Unit Director
How to Marry a Millionaire
Director
Jessica
Director
Three Coins in the Fountain
Director
O. Henry's Full House
Director
The Sea Hawk
Second Unit Director
At the Stroke of Twelve
Director
Boy on a Dolphin
Director
Titanic
Director
The Best of Everything
Director
Daddy Long Legs
Director
Phone Call from a Stranger
Director
Road House
Director
The Mask of Dimitrios
Director
Three Strangers
Director
The Rains of Ranchipur
Director
Woman's World
Director
Humoresque
Director
Johnny Belinda
Director
The Conspirators
Director
City for Conquest
Director
Take Care of My Little Girl
Director
The Gift of Love
Director
The Voice That Thrilled the World
Director
A Certain Smile
Director
Lure of the Wilderness
Director
Three Came Home
Director
Nobody Lives Forever
Director
The Pleasure Seekers
Director
The Flag of Humanity
Director
Three Cheers for the Girls
Director
Singapore Woman
Director
Crash Donovan
Co-Director
Scandal at Scourie
Director
Lydia Bailey
Director
Deep Valley
Director
Six Hits and a Miss
Director
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
Director
Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Director
The United States Service Bands
Director
Under My Skin
Director
The Mudlark
Director
Hello-Goodbye
Director
The Forbidden Street
Director
A Ship Is Born
Director
Alice in Movieland
Director
Count Your Blessings
Director
Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
Director
All Star Melody Masters
Director
The Invincible Six
Director
Roaring Guns
Director
The Gay Parisian
Director
Women at War
Director
Food and Magic
Director
The United States Army Air Force Band
Director
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
Director
The Dark Wave
Director
Over the Wall
Director
Spanish Fiesta
Director
Cavalcade of Dance
Director
