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Jean Negulesco
Craiova, Dolj, Romania
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…
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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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Negulesco, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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1970
Hello-Goodbye
Movie Director
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1970
The Invincible Six
Movie Director
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1969
Biganeh Biya
Movie Editor
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1965
The Greatest Story Ever Told
Movie Second Unit Director
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1964
The Pleasure Seekers
Movie Director
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1962
Jessica
Movie Director
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1959
The Best of Everything
Movie Director
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1959
Count Your Blessings
Movie Director
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1958
A Certain Smile
Movie Director
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1958
The Gift of Love
Movie Director
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1957
Boy on a Dolphin
Movie Director
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1956
The Dark Wave
Movie Director
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1955
The Rains of Ranchipur
Movie Director
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1955
Daddy Long Legs
Movie Director
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1954
Woman's World
Movie Director
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1954
Three Coins in the Fountain
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1953
How to Marry a Millionaire
Movie Director
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1953
Scandal at Scourie
Movie Director
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1953
Titanic
Movie Director
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1952
O. Henry's Full House
Movie Director
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1952
Lure of the Wilderness
Movie Director
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1952
Lydia Bailey
Movie Director
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1952
Phone Call from a Stranger
Movie Director
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1951
Take Care of My Little Girl
Movie Director
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1950
The Mudlark
Movie Director
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1950
Under My Skin
Movie Director
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1950
Three Came Home
Movie Director
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1949
The Forbidden Street
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1948
Road House
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1948
Johnny Belinda
Movie Director
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1947
Deep Valley
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1947
Humoresque
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1946
Nobody Lives Forever
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1946
Three Strangers
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1944
The Conspirators
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1944
The Mask of Dimitrios
Movie Director
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1944
Roaring Guns
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1943
Over the Wall
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1943
Food and Magic
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1943
The Voice That Thrilled the World
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