Jean Negulesco

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 failu…

Directed

1. How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) — Director
2. Titanic (1953) — Director
3. Daddy Long Legs (1955) — Director
4. Johnny Belinda (1948) — Director
5. Humoresque (1947) — Director
6. Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) — Director
7. The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) — Director
8. O. Henry's Full House (1952) — Director
9. Road House (1948) — Director
10. The Best of Everything (1959) — Director
11. Three Strangers (1946) — Director
12. Boy on a Dolphin (1957) — Director
13. City for Conquest (1940) — Director
14. Phone Call from a Stranger (1952) — Director
15. Three Came Home (1950) — Director
16. Nobody Lives Forever (1946) — Director
17. Deep Valley (1947) — Director
18. Woman's World (1954) — Director
19. The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) — Director
20. The Conspirators (1944) — Director
21. Jessica (1962) — Director
22. The Gay Parisian (1942) — Director
23. Take Care of My Little Girl (1951) — Director
24. Hello-Goodbye (1970) — Director
25. The Pleasure Seekers (1964) — Director
26. Lure of the Wilderness (1952) — Director
27. Cavalcade of Dance (1943) — Director
28. The Mudlark (1950) — Director
29. Alice in Movieland (1940) — Director
30. Under My Skin (1950) — Director
31. A Ship Is Born (1942) — Director
32. The United States Marine Band (1942) — Director
33. A Certain Smile (1958) — Director
34. The Forbidden Street (1949) — Director
35. The Gift of Love (1958) — Director
36. Three Cheers for the Girls (1943) — Director
37. Women at War (1943) — Director
38. Scandal at Scourie (1953) — Director
39. Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (1943) — Director
40. Singapore Woman (1941) — Director