HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE

Jean Negulesco

(Craiova, Romania, 1900 - Marbella, Spagna, 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter. He moved to Vienna in 1915 and to Bucharest in 1919, where he worked as a painter before becoming a stage designer in Paris. In 1927 he travelled to New York for an exhibition of his paintings and eventually settled there. He entered the film industry in 1934, initially as a sketch artist, then working as an assistant producer and second-unit director. By the late 1930s he had begun directing and screenwriting. At Warner Bros. he gained recognition for his short films, particularly a series of band shorts distinguished by his visual style. He made his feature-film directorial debut with Singapore Woman (1941) and received an Academy Award nomination for Johnny Belinda (1948). He later directed such popular films as Titanic (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), which won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and The Best of Everything (1959).

FILMOGRAFIA

Kiss and Make-Up (Il tempio del dottor Lamar, co-regia con Harlan Thompson, 1934), Those Good Old Days (id., 1941), Singapore Woman (La donna di Singapore, 1941), Roaring Guns (id., 1944), The Conspirators (I cospiratori, 1944), The Mask of Dimitrios (La maschera di Dimitrios, 1944), Nobody Lives Forever (Una luce nell’ombra, 1946), Three Strangers (L’idolo cinese, 1946), Humoresque (Perdutamente, 1946), Deep Valley (Disperato amore, 1947), Road House (I quattro rivali, 1948), Johnny Belinda (id., 1948), The Mudlark (Un monello alla corte d’Inghilterra, 1950), Three Came Home (...e la vita continua, 1950), Under My Skin (La sua donna, 1950), Forbidden Street (Strada proibita, 1950), Lydia Bailey (La rivolta di Haiti, 1952), Lure of the Wilderness (Prigionieri della palude, 1952), Phone Call from a Stranger (Telefonata a tre mogli, 1952), Henry’s Full House (La giostra umana, 1952), Titanic (id., 1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (Come sposare un milionario, 1953), Scandal at Scourie (L’orfana senza sorriso, 1953), Three Coins in the Fountain (Tre soldi nella fontana, 1954), Woman’s World (Il mondo è delle donne, 1954), The Rains of Ranchipur (Le piogge di Ranchipur, 1955), Daddy Long Legs (Papà Gambalunga, 1955), Boy on a Dolphin (Il ragazzo sul delfino, 1957), A Certain Smile (Un certo sorriso, 1958), The Gift of Love (Dono d’amore, 1958), The Best of Everything (Donne in cerca d’amore, 1959), Count Your Blessings (Il marito latino, 1959), Jessica (id., 1962), The Pleasure Seekers (Mentre Adamo dorme, 1964), Hello-Goodbye (id., 1970), The Invincible Six (6 dannati in cerca di gloria, 1971).