Jean Negulesco
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Zoe Akins...Lionel Barrymore, and earned Garbo her third Oscar nomination. To Akins' surprise, she was thrust into notoriety again in 1953, when Jean Negulesco directed an adaptation of The Greeks Had a Word for It. The film, titled How to Marry a... In this article: Marilyn Monroe, Academy Award, Greta Garbo, Zoe Akins, St. Louis, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Old Maid, Stage Struck, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Morning Glory |
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
River of No Return
...budget. During post-production, Preminger departed for Europe, leaving editor Louis R. Loeffler and Rubin to complete the film. Jean Negulesco was called in to film a few retakes. Preminger's experience on the film convinced him he never...
In this article: Otto Preminger, Marilyn Monroe, River of No Return, and Darryl F. Zanuck
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Dusty Anderson
...who became a pin-up girl, appearing in the October 27, 1944 issue of the United States Military's Dusty Anderson married director Jean Negulesco in 1946 and retired from acting. Four years later, her final screen work was an uncredited...
In this article: Dusty Anderson, World War II, and Toledo, Ohio
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The Mask of Dimitrios
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944 ) is a American film noir directed by Jean Negulesco and written by Frank Gruber, based on the 1939 novel of the same name written by Eric Ambler (in America the novel was titled A Coffin for Dimitrios). Ambler is...
In this article: The Mask of Dimitrios, Eric Ambler, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, and Faye Emerson
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Three Strangers
...starring Peter Lorre, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Sydney Greenstreet, featuring Joan Lorring and Alan Napier. It was directed by Jean Negulesco from a script by John Huston and Howard Koch. Crystal Shackelford (Geraldine Fitzgerald)...
In this article: John Huston, Three Strangers, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, David Niven, and Warner Bros.
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Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; February 26, 1900 - July 18, 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, and, in 1919, to...
In this article: Cult Films, Academy Award, Carol I High School, Heart failure, Entertainment Weekly, The Best of Everything, Johnny Belinda, Warner Brothers, and Craiova
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The Pleasure Seekers
...and Gene Tierney. It was adapted for the screen by Edith R. Sommer, based on the novel by John H. Secondari, and was directed by Jean Negulesco. This was Gene Tierney's final film. Three beautiful young women go to Madrid and fall...
In this article: The Pleasure Seekers, Ann-Margret, Gene Tierney, Anthony Franciosa, Pamela Tiffin, Carol Lynley, Brian Keith, Three Coins in the Fountain, and John H. Secondari
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Boy on a Dolphin
Boy on a Dolphin was a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and made in CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Dwight Taylor, based on the novel by...
In this article: Alan Ladd, Sophia Loren, Boy on a Dolphin, Clifton Webb, Julie London, Cinecitta, Academy Award, Milton R. Krasner, and Hugo Friedhofer
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www.washingtonpost.com | May 31, 2008
Girls, Meet Gotham
...with frank talk about men and sex, women's films were occasionally able to tell truths of their own. More often, they lied: In 1953 Jean Negulesco made "How to Marry a Millionaire," starring Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable and a sublimely funny...
In this article: The Best of Everything, Sex and the City, New York, Three on a Match, Hollywood, Charlotte, and Joan Crawford
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Oscar-Winning Actress Jane Wyman
...what was wrong. I could hear. I could act deaf, but it lacked a realistic feeling, and that showed in my face." Director Jean Negulesco had the solution: to seal Ms. Wyman's ears with wax. She also isolated herself from other cast...
In this article: Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan, Oscar, Johnny Belinda, Mississippi, Lana Turner, Falcon Crest, Magnificent Obsession, Charles Brackett, and California
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'Johnny Belinda' Actress Jane Wyman Dies
...achieved her first acting challenge with "Johnny Belinda." When Jack Warner saw a rough cut of the film, he ranted to the director, Jean Negulesco: "We invented talking pictures, and you make a picture about a deaf and dumb girl!" He...
In this article: Jane Wyman, Johnny Belinda, Ronald Reagan, Oscar, Falcon Crest, Warner Bros., and Michael Reagan
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Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; February 26, 1900 – July 18, 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, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he came to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and subsequently 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.
The first feature film Negulesco directed was Singapore Woman in 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, made it 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 February 29, 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 February 29 in 1900. Negulesco's autobiography (in which this claim appears) is appropriately titled Things I Did and Things I Think I Did.
- Birth Date:
- February 26, 1900
- Death Date:
- July 18, 1993
- Place of Death:
- Marbella, Andalusia, Spain
- Spouse:
- Dusty Anderson (1946-1993)
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