Jean Negulesco
78 movies
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Feb 26, 1900
- Died
- Jul 18, 1993 (age 93)
- Place of birth
- Craiova, Dolj, Romania
- Also known as
- Ioan Negulescu
Biography
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Jean Negulesco (26 February 1900 – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter.
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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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Known for
Jean Negulesco: movies and TV shows
Behind the camera (78)
- 1970 Hello-Goodbye
Director
- 1970 The Invincible Six
Director
- 1969 Biganeh Biya
Editor
- 1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told
Second Unit Director
- 1964 The Pleasure Seekers
Director
- 1962 Jessica
Director, Producer
- 1959 The Best of Everything
Director
- 1959 Count Your Blessings
Director
- 1958 A Certain Smile
Director
- 1958 The Gift of Love
Director
- 1957 Boy on a Dolphin
Director
- 1956 The Dark Wave
Director
- 1955 The Rains of Ranchipur
Director
- 1955 Daddy Long Legs
Director
- 1954 Woman's World
Director
- 1954 Three Coins in the Fountain
Director
- 1953 How to Marry a Millionaire
Director
- 1953 Scandal at Scourie
Director
- 1953 Titanic
Director
- 1952 O. Henry's Full House
Director
- 1952 Lure of the Wilderness
Director
- 1952 Lydia Bailey
Director
- 1952 Phone Call from a Stranger
Director
- 1951 Take Care of My Little Girl
Director
- 1950 The Mudlark
Director
- 1950 Under My Skin
Director
- 1950 Three Came Home
Director
- 1949 The Forbidden Street
Director
- 1948 Road House
Director
- 1948 Johnny Belinda
Director
- 1947 Deep Valley
Director
- 1947 Humoresque
Director
- 1946 Nobody Lives Forever
Director
- 1946 Three Strangers
Director
- 1944 The Conspirators
Director
- 1944 The Mask of Dimitrios
Director
- 1944 Roaring Guns
Director
- 1943 Over the Wall
Director
- 1943 Food and Magic
Director
- 1943 The Voice That Thrilled the World
Director
- 1943 Cavalcade of Dance
Director
- 1943 Women at War
Director
- 1943 Hit Parade of the Gay Nineties
Director
- 1943 All Star Melody Masters
Director
- 1943 Three Cheers for the Girls
Director
- 1943 Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
Director
- 1943 The United States Navy Band
Director
- 1943 The United States Army Band
Director
- 1943 The United States Service Bands
Director
- 1942
- 1942 The United States Marine Band
Director
- 1942 Six Hits and a Miss
Director
- 1942
- 1942 The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Director
- 1942 Spanish Fiesta
Director
- 1942
- 1942 The Playgirls
Director
- 1942 Calling All Girls
Director
- 1942 The Gay Parisian
Director
- 1942 A Ship Is Born
Director
- 1941 At the Stroke of Twelve
Director
- 1941 Those Good Old Days
Director
- 1941 Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
Director
- 1941 Singapore Woman
Director
- 1941 Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
Director
- 1941 Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
Director
- 1940 Henry Busse and His Orchestra
Director
- 1940 The Flag of Humanity
Director, Screenplay
- 1940 City for Conquest
Director
- 1940 The Sea Hawk
Second Unit Director
- 1940 Alice in Movieland
Director
- 1939 Rio
Story
- 1938 Swiss Miss
Story
- 1938 The Beloved Brat
Story
- 1937 Expensive Husbands
Screenplay
- 1937 Fight for Your Lady
Story
- 1936 Crash Donovan
Co-Director
- 1932 This Is the Night
Technical Supervisor