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Jean Negulesco is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Second Unit Director and Technical Supervisor American born on 26 february 1900 at Craiova (Roumanie)
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; 26 February 1900 – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.
In 1934 he entered the film industry, first as a sketch artist, then as an assistant producer, second unit director. In the late 1930s he became a director and screenwriter. He made his 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.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6200 Hollywood Blvd.
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Birth name Jean Negulescu
Nationality USA
Birth 26 february 1900 at Craiova (Roumanie)
Death 18 july 1993 (at 93 years) at Marbella (Espagne)
Nationality USA
Birth 26 february 1900 at Craiova (Roumanie)
Death 18 july 1993 (at 93 years) at Marbella (Espagne)
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; 26 February 1900 – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915 he moved to Vienna, and then went to Bucharest in 1919, 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. In the late 1930s he became a director and screenwriter. He made his 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.
He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6200 Hollywood Blvd.
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Manuela's Loves (1987)
Directed by Pascal Laëthier, Geneviève Lefebvre
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Alida Valli, Marie-Christine Barrault, Loïc Brabant, Michel Favory, Jean Negulesco, Julian Negulesco
Roles David
Rating54%
À Paris, Bacha, Manuela et Claude, trois femmes d'âge et d'univers sociaux très différents, sont entraînées dans une histoire d'amour d'un grand romantisme où plane le souvenir maléfique des camps nazis dont Bacha porte encore les séquelles. À travers cette aventure placée sous le signe de la fulgurance et de la réserve, elles comprendront que nul n'échappe à sa propre violence et à sa propre destinée.
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Hello-Goodbye (1970)
, 1h47Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Michael Crawford, Curd Jürgens, Genevieve Gilles, Lon Satton, Mike Marshall, Didier Haudepin
Rating47%
Harry England (Michael Crawford), a British car salesman on a trip to France, meets a Baroness "Danny" (Genevieve Gilles) when her Rolls-Royce breaks down. They spend a few days together and become lovers before she disappears one night, but Harry does not know her surname.
The Invincible Six (1970)
, 1h43Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer, Curd Jürgens, James Mitchum, Ian Ogilvy, Behrouz Vossoughi
Rating52%
An adventurous American everybody calls Tex and his partner, an Englishman named Ronald, are foiled in their bid to steal Tehran's precious jewels. In the desert, they join up with four others, including a baron, to plot another heist.
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
, 3h45Directed by George Stevens, David Lean, Jean Negulesco, William Hale, David S. Hall, Paul Baxley, Richard Talmadge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films based on the Bible, Portrayals of Jesus in film, Films about virginity
Actors Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston, Martin Landau, Dorothy McGuire, José Ferrer, Telly Savalas
Rating64%
Ce film se veut une adaptation cinématographique de la vie de Jésus Christ telle que relatée selon le Nouveau Testament.
The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
, 1h47Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gene Tierney, Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin
Rating56%
Three beautiful American women come to Madrid and fall in love. Susie Higgins (Pamela Tiffin) arrives and moves in with her old friend Maggie Williams (Carol Lynley) and roommate Fran Hobson (Ann-Margret). Susie experiences a culture shock, when she is informed by Maggie and Fran that all rich, attractive men are taken, and all attractive but poor ones are too proud to take on American women.
The Pleasure Seekers (1964)
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, André Lawrence
Rating56%
Trois jeunes femmes co-locataires découvrent les joies de l'amour à Madrid en faisant la connaissance de la gente masculine.
Jessica (1962)
, 1h52Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Maurice Chevalier, Angie Dickinson, Noël-Noël, Agnes Moorehead, Sylva Koscina, Gabriele Ferzetti
Rating55%
When her husband dies in Sicily while on their honeymoon, Jessica, a nurse, decides to remain there rather than return home. She decides to become a midwife in the village of Forza d'Agro.
Something's Got to Give (1962)
, 37minutesDirected by George Cukor, Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films, Films about marriage
Actors Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse, Phil Silvers, John McGiver, Tom Tryon
Rating65%
Ellen Arden (Monroe), a photographer and mother of two small children, has been declared legally dead, having been lost at sea in the Pacific. Her husband Nick (Dean Martin) has remarried; he and his new wife, Bianca (Cyd Charisse), are on their honeymoon when Ellen, rescued from an island where she has been stranded for five years, returns home. The family dog remembers her, but the children do not. However, they take a liking to her, and invite her to stay. Ellen assumes a foreign accent and pretends to be a woman named Ingrid Tic. Nick, flustered by the revelation that he's now married to two women, makes great effort to keep the truth from his new wife all the while trying to quash her amorous advances. Upon learning that Ellen was marooned on the island with a man, Stephen Burkett (Tom Tryon) — whom she knew as "Adam" to her "Eve" — he becomes jealous and suspicious of her fidelity. To calm his fears, Ellen enlists a meek shoe salesman (Wally Cox) to impersonate her island companion.
Count Your Blessings (1959)
, 1h42Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, Maurice Chevalier, Martin Stephens, Tom Helmore, Patricia Medina
Rating50%
While visiting Grace Allingham in wartime London at the behest of Hugh Palgrave, his friend, Charles is charmed by her and abruptly proposes marriage. They marry, but during the honeymoon Charles reports back to military duty.
The Best of Everything (1959)
, 2h1Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker, Joan Crawford, Robert Evans, Stephen Boyd
Rating65%
Caroline Bender (Lange) is an ambitious young secretary in a publishing firm who, when jilted, finds consolation in the arms of editor Mike Rice (Boyd). Gregg Adams (Parker) is a typist and an aspiring actress romantically involved with stage director David Savage (Jourdan). When the director dumps her, she is devastated, falls from a fire escape while lurking outside his apartment, and dies.
A Certain Smile (1958)
, 1h44Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes La provence, Children's films
Actors Rossano Brazzi, Joan Fontaine, Christine Carrère, Bradford Dillman, Eduard Franz, Katherine Locke
Rating57%
In Paris, beautiful Dominique Vallon is involved with a young man, Bertrand Griot, until suddenly entering into an unwise week-long romance with his wealthy and married uncle, Luc Ferrand.
The Gift of Love (1958)
, 1h45Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, Lorne Greene, Anne Seymour, Edward Platt, Joseph Kearns
Rating63%
A brilliant scientist, Bill Beck (Robert Stack), ends up happily married to Julie (Lauren Bacall), his doctor's receptionist. Five years after their wedding, the same doctor treats Julie for a heart condition that she decides to keep secret from her husband, who is doing serious work as a physicist developing guided missiles.
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
, 1h51Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Children's films
Actors Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb, Sophia Loren, Laurence Naismith, Jorge Mistral, Gertrude Flynn
Rating61%
Phaedra (Sophia Loren) is a poor Greek sponge diver who accidentally finds an ancient Greek statue of a boy riding a dolphin on the bottom of the Aegean Sea. Her efforts to sell it to the highest bidder lead her to two competing individuals - Dr. James Calder (Alan Ladd), an honest archaeologist with an academic's bankroll, and Victor Parmalee (Clifton Webb), a wealthy but unscrupulous art collector.
The Rains of Ranchipur (1956)
, 1h44Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Catastrophe épidémiologique, Children's films, Disaster films
Actors Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield, Michael Rennie, Eugenie Leontovich
Rating57%
In India to purchase some horses, British aristocrat Lord Esketh and his wife, Edwina, come to the town of Ranchipur at the invitation of the elderly Maharani. Their marriage is an unhappy one and Lord Esketh announces his intention to return to England and begin divorce proceedings. The spoiled, insensitive Edwina scoffs at this.
The Dark Wave (1956)
, 23minutesDirected by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Films about disabilities
Actors Charles Bickford, Cornell Borchers