Jean Negulesco

@American-romanian Film Director, Birthday and Childhood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American director and screenwriter American Romanian Spanish Film & Theater Personalities Directors Pisces Celebrities Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born American director and screenwriter who became famous for the films he directed during the 1940s and 1950s. He started out as a painter and later became a stage decorator. From being a stage decorator he became a sketch artist and then a producer, a screenwriter and finally a director. He worked in restaurants and washed dishes to pay for his classes on painting. When the First World War broke out he enrolled in the French Army and worked in the field hospitals attending to the wounded at the Western Front. After the war he returned to Paris and went through lessons on painting given by Constantin Brancusi. He went back to Romania where he earned a good name as a painter and was able to sell about 150 of his paintings. He again returned to Paris in the early 1920s and started working there as a stage decorator. During the later part of his life he went to Spain and spent the rest of his life there.

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Birthday: February 26, 1900 Died on: July 18, 1993 Nationality: Romanian, Spanish, American Famous: American-romanian Film Director, Romanian Men, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors Spouses: Dusty Anderson (m. 1946–1993) Childrens: Gaby Negulesco, Tina Negulesco Birth Place: Craiova, Romania Information Detail Birthday February 26, 1900 Died on July 18, 1993 Nationality Romanian, Spanish, American Famous American-romanian Film Director, Romanian Men, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors Spouses Dusty Anderson (m. 1946–1993) Childrens Gaby Negulesco, Tina Negulesco Birth Place Craiova, Romania Born Country Romania Gender Male Sun Sign Pisces Born in Craiova, Romania Famous as American-Romanian film director Died at Age 93

Craiova, Romania

Jean Negulesco born at Unsplash Birth Place

He married actress Ruth ‘Dusty’ Anderson on July 21, 1946 and stayed with her till his death. Unsplash Personal Life

He had two daughters from this marriage named Gaby and Tina. Unsplash Personal Life

Jean Negulesco died of heart failure in Marbella, Andalusia, Spain, on July 18, 1993 at the age of 93. Unsplash Personal Life

Jean Negulesco was born Ioan Negulescu in Craiova, Romania, on February 29, 1900. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

He did his schooling from the ‘Carl I High School’ but left home at the age of 12. Unsplash Childhood & Early Life

Jean Negulesco moved to Vienna, Austria, in 1915. Unsplash Career

He came back to Bucharest in Romania in 1919 and took up the job of a painter. Unsplash Career

He moved to Paris, France, in the early 1920s and started the job of a stage decorator. Unsplash Career

He left France for America in 1927, where he put some of his paintings on exhibition. He travelled across the US and paid for his journey by selling portraits on the way. He settled in California and started working as a portrait maker. Unsplash Career

In 1932 ‘Paramount Pictures’ hired him for director Benjamin Glazer as a sketch artist and technical advisor for designing various scenes without violating the ‘Hays Code’. Unsplash Career

Jean Negulesco published his autobiography ‘Things I Did and Things I Think I Did’ in 1984. Unsplash Major Works

Information	Detail
Birthday	February 26, 1900
Died on	July 18, 1993
Nationality	Romanian, Spanish, American
Famous	American-romanian Film Director, Romanian Men, Film & Theater Personalities, Directors
Spouses	Dusty Anderson (m. 1946–1993)
Childrens	Gaby Negulesco, Tina Negulesco
Birth Place	Craiova, Romania
Born Country	Romania
Gender	Male
Sun Sign	Pisces
Born in	Craiova, Romania
Famous as	American-Romanian film director
Died at Age	93

Jean Negulesco

Romanian

Feb 26, 1900

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Craiova, Romania