Jean Negulesco

Directing·Feb 26, 1900·Craiova, Dolj, Romania

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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

Film	Credit
Hello-Goodbye1970 · Director	Director
The Invincible Six1970 · Director	Director
The Pleasure Seekers1964 · Director	Director
Jessica1962 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Best of Everything1959 · Director	Director
Count Your Blessings1959 · Director	Director
A Certain Smile1958 · Director	Director
The Gift of Love1958 · Director	Director
Boy on a Dolphin1957 · Director	Director
The Dark Wave1956 · Director	Director
The Rains of Ranchipur1955 · Director	Director
Daddy Long Legs1955 · Director	Director
Woman's World1954 · Director	Director
Three Coins in the Fountain1954 · Director	Director
How to Marry a Millionaire1953 · Director	Director
Scandal at Scourie1953 · Director	Director
Titanic1953 · Director	Director
O. Henry's Full House1952 · Director	Director
Lure of the Wilderness1952 · Director	Director
Lydia Bailey1952 · Director	Director
Phone Call from a Stranger1952 · Director	Director
Take Care of My Little Girl1951 · Director	Director
The Mudlark1950 · Director	Director
Under My Skin1950 · Director	Director
Three Came Home1950 · Director	Director
The Forbidden Street1949 · Director	Director
Road House1948 · Director	Director
Johnny Belinda1948 · Director	Director
Deep Valley1947 · Director	Director
Humoresque1947 · Director	Director
Nobody Lives Forever1946 · Director	Director
Three Strangers1946 · Director	Director
The Conspirators1944 · Director	Director
The Mask of Dimitrios1944 · Director	Director
Roaring Guns1944 · Director	Director
Over the Wall1943 · Director	Director
Food and Magic1943 · Director	Director
The Voice That Thrilled the World1943 · Director	Director
Cavalcade of Dance1943 · Director	Director
Women at War1943 · Director	Director
HHit Parade of the Gay Nineties1943 · Director	Director
All Star Melody Masters1943 · Director	Director
Three Cheers for the Girls1943 · Director	Director
Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra1943 · Director	Director
TThe United States Navy Band1943 · Director	Director
TThe United States Army Band1943 · Director	Director
The United States Service Bands1943 · Director	Director
BBorrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School1942 · Director	Director