Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (1986)
Born	26 February 1900(1900-02-26) Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Died	18 July 1993(1993-07-18) (aged 93) Marbella, Andalusia, Spain
Spouse	Dusty Anderson (1946-1993)

Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; 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 where 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.

Filmography

• Singapore Woman (1941)
• The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
• The Conspirators (1944)
• Three Strangers (1946)
• Nobody Lives Forever (1946)
• Humoresque (1946)
• Deep Valley (1947)
• Road House (1948)
• Johnny Belinda (1948)
• The Forbidden Street (1949)
• Under My Skin (1950)
• Three Came Home (1950)
• Take Care of My Little Girl (1951)
• The Mudlark (1951)
• Lydia Bailey (1952)
• Lure of the Wilderness (1952)
• Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
• Scandal at Scourie (1953)
• Titanic (1953)
• How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
• Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
• Woman's World (1954)
• The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
• Daddy Long Legs (1955)
• The Dark Wave (1956)
• Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
• A Certain Smile (1958)
• The Gift of Love (1958)
• Count Your Blessings (1959)
• The Best of Everything (1959)
• Jessica (1962)
• The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
• Hello-Goodbye (1970)
• The Invincible Six (1970)

References

• Jean Negulesco at the Internet Movie Database
• Jean Negulesco at Allmovie

Persondata
Name	Negulesco, Jean
Alternative names
Short description	Film director
Date of birth	26 February 1900
Place of birth	Craiova, Dolj, Romania
Date of death	18 July 1993
Place of death	Marbella, Andalusia, Spain