Jean Negulesco

Regisseur, Producer, Schrijver, Redacteur

26 februari 1900 — 18 juli 1993 (93 years)
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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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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Phone Call from a Stranger
    Phone Call from a Stranger1952
  • Vrouwenkamp Borneo
    Vrouwenkamp Borneo1950

Known For

  • How to Marry a Millionaire
    How to Marry a Millionaire1953
  • Titanic
    Titanic1953
  • Johnny Belinda
    Johnny Belinda1948
  • River of No Return
    River of No Return1954
  • Zeehavik
    Zeehavik1940
  • Humoresque
    Humoresque1947
  • Three Coins in the Fountain
    Three Coins in the Fountain1954
  • Vadertje Langbeen
    Vadertje Langbeen1955
  • The Mask of Dimitrios
    The Mask of Dimitrios1944
  • Phone Call from a Stranger
    Phone Call from a Stranger1952
  • Road House
    Road House1948
  • The Greatest Story Ever Told
    The Greatest Story Ever Told1965
  • Three Strangers
    Three Strangers1946
  • The Best of Everything
    The Best of Everything1959
  • Vrouwenkamp Borneo
    Vrouwenkamp Borneo1950
  • Nobody Lives Forever
    Nobody Lives Forever1946
  • Boy on a Dolphin
    Boy on a Dolphin1957
  • The Conspirators
    The Conspirators1944
  • Woman's World
    Woman's World1954
  • Het lied van de grote stad
    Het lied van de grote stad1940

Cinematografie

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