Jean Negulesco
Directing
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
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movieHello-Goodbye
1970
Director
movieThe Invincible Six
1970
Director
movieThe Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
Second Unit Director
movieThe Pleasure Seekers
1964
Director
movieJessica
1962
Director
movieThe Best of Everything
1959
Director
movieCount Your Blessings
1959
Director
movieA Certain Smile
1958
Director
movieThe Gift of Love
1958
Director
movieBoy on a Dolphin
1957
Director
movieThe Dark Wave
1956
Director
movieThe Rains of Ranchipur
1955
Director
movieDaddy Long Legs
1955
Director
movieWoman's World
1954
Director
movieScandal at Scourie
1953
Director
movieTitanic
1953
Director
movieO. Henry's Full House
1952
Director
movieLure of the Wilderness
1952
Director
movieLydia Bailey
1952
Director
movieThe Mudlark
1950
Director
movieUnder My Skin
1950
Director
movieThree Came Home
1950
Director
movieThe Forbidden Street
1949
Director
movieRoad House
1948
Director
movieJohnny Belinda
1948
Director
movieDeep Valley
1947
Director
movieHumoresque
1947
Director
movieNobody Lives Forever
1946
Director
movieThree Strangers
1946
Director
movieThe Conspirators
1944
Director
movieThe Mask of Dimitrios
1944
Director
movieRoaring Guns
1944
Director
movieOver the Wall
1943
Director
movieFood and Magic
1943
Director
movieCavalcade of Dance
1943
Director
movieWomen at War
1943
Director
movieAll Star Melody Masters
1943
Director
movieSix Hits and a Miss
1942
Director
movieSpanish Fiesta
1942
Director
movieThe Gay Parisian
1942
Director
movieA Ship Is Born
1942
Director
movieAt the Stroke of Twelve
1941
Director
movieSingapore Woman
1941
Director
movieThe Flag of Humanity
1940
Director
movieCity for Conquest
1940
Director
movieThe Sea Hawk
1940
Second Unit Director
movieAlice in Movieland
1940
Director
movieCrash Donovan
1936
Co-Director
Writing6
movieThe Flag of Humanity
1940
Screenplay
movieRio
1939
Story
movieSwiss Miss
1938
Story
movieExpensive Husbands
1937
Screenplay
Crew1
movieThis Is the Night
1932
Technical Supervisor
Editing1
movieBiganeh Biya
1969
Editor
Production1
movieJessica
1962
Producer