From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Jean Negulesco 26 February 1900 18 July 1993 was a Romanianborn 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 Negulescos 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 Weeklys Top 50 Cult Films of AllTime 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 Negulescos 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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