Jean Negulesco

Directeur, Producteur, Scénariste, Éditeur

26 février 1900 — 18 juillet 1993 (93 ans)
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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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Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Appel d'un inconnu
    Appel d'un inconnu1952
  • Captives à Bornéo
    Captives à Bornéo1950

Connue pour

  • Comment épouser un millionnaire
    Comment épouser un millionnaire1953
  • Titanic
    Titanic1953
  • Johnny Belinda, l'enfant du silence
    Johnny Belinda, l'enfant du silence1948
  • Rivière sans retour
    Rivière sans retour1954
  • L'Aigle des mers
    L'Aigle des mers1940
  • Humoresque
    Humoresque1947
  • La Fontaine des amours
    La Fontaine des amours1954
  • Papa longues jambes
    Papa longues jambes1955
  • Le masque de Dimitrios
    Le masque de Dimitrios1944
  • Appel d'un inconnu
    Appel d'un inconnu1952
  • La femme aux cigarettes
    La femme aux cigarettes1948
  • La Plus Grande Histoire jamais contée
    La Plus Grande Histoire jamais contée1965
  • Ville conquise
    Ville conquise1940
  • Trois étrangers
    Trois étrangers1946
  • Rien n'est trop beau
    Rien n'est trop beau1959
  • Captives à Bornéo
    Captives à Bornéo1950
  • Meurtre au Port
    Meurtre au Port1946
  • Ombres sous la mer
    Ombres sous la mer1957
  • Les Conspirateurs
    Les Conspirateurs1944
  • Les femmes mènent le monde
    Les femmes mènent le monde1954

Filmographie

2012
Love, Marilyn · as Self
1955
1950

1940
The Flag of Humanity · as Screenplay
1937
Expensive Husbands · as Screenplay

1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told · as Second Unit Director
1948
Road House · as Contract Writer
1940
The Sea Hawk · as Second Unit Director
1939
Rio · as Story
1938
Swiss Miss · as Story
1938
The Beloved Brat · as Story
1937
1936
Crash Donovan · as Co-Director