
Jean Negulesco
Biography
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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.
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Directing (68 movies)

How to Marry a Millionaire
1953

Hello-Goodbye
1970

Road House
1948

City for Conquest
1940

O. Henry's Full House
1952

Under My Skin
1950

Daddy Long Legs
1955

Nobody Lives Forever
1946

The Conspirators
1944

Humoresque
1947

The Mask of Dimitrios
1944

Three Strangers
1946

Three Coins in the Fountain
1954

Boy on a Dolphin
1957

Johnny Belinda
1948

Deep Valley
1947

Titanic
1953

The Rains of Ranchipur
1955

The Best of Everything
1959

Phone Call from a Stranger
1952

Jessica
1962

The Pleasure Seekers
1964
The United States Army Band
1943

Women at War
1943

Three Came Home
1950

A Certain Smile
1958
Henry Busse and His Orchestra
1940

The Mudlark
1950

Woman's World
1954

The Forbidden Street
1949

The Gift of Love
1958

Count Your Blessings
1959
Hit Parade of the Gay Nineties
1943

Take Care of My Little Girl
1951

Scandal at Scourie
1953

Lure of the Wilderness
1952

Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos
1941

Skinnay Ennis and His Orchestra
1941
Hal Kemp and His Orchestra
1941

Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra
1942

Six Hits and a Miss
1942
Borrah Minevitch and His Harmonica School
1942

Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra
1943

The Dark Wave
1956

Alice in Movieland
1940

Singapore Woman
1941

Lydia Bailey
1952

Cavalcade of Dance
1943
The United States Navy Band
1943

At the Stroke of Twelve
1941
Calling All Girls
1942

The Flag of Humanity
1940
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
1942

The Gay Parisian
1942

Food and Magic
1943

Spanish Fiesta
1942

Three Cheers for the Girls
1943

A Ship Is Born
1942

The United States Army Air Force Band
1942
The United States Marine Band
1942

The Invincible Six
1970

The Voice That Thrilled the World
1943
Those Good Old Days
1941
The Playgirls
1942

Over the Wall
1943

Roaring Guns
1944

The United States Service Bands
1943

All Star Melody Masters
1943
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Expensive Husbands | 1937 | Screenplay |
| The Flag of Humanity | 1940 | Screenplay |
| Jessica | 1962 | Producer |