Joshua Logan
Joshua Lockwood Logan III (born October 5, 1908 in Texarkana , Texas , † July 12, 1988 in New York City , New York ) was an American film and theater director.
Life
Joshua Logan began his directing career as a student at Princeton University . He formed a student theater with students Henry Fonda , James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan . After graduating, he went to Moscow to study directing with Konstantin Stanislawski . Back in the United States, he began staging plays on Broadway . He was particularly successful as a musical director.
His film work was nowhere near as numerous as his theater work. Nevertheless, he received an Oscar nomination for his film Picnic (1955) and won the Golden Globe Award for the same film . In the 1930s he had already worked as a dialogue director in Hollywood , for example for In the Garden of Allah with Marlene Dietrich and Charles Boyer . He has also worked as a director with Hollywood greats such as Marilyn Monroe in Bus Stop (1956), Marlon Brando in Sayonara (1957) and Jane Fonda in The Longer the Better (1960).
Logan was married to actress Nedda Harrigan from 1945 until his death .
Filmography
- 1938: I Met My Love Again
- 1955: picnic (Picnic)
- 1956: Bus stop
- 1957: Sayonara
- 1958: South Pacific
- 1960: Tall Story
- 1960: The longer, the better
- 1961: Fanny
- 1964: Ensign powder
- 1967: Camelot - At the court of King Arthur (Camelot)
- 1969: The wind moves westward (Paint Your Wagon)
Broadway productions as a director
- 1935: It's You I want - by Maurice Braddell
- 1935: To See Ourselves - by EM Delafield
- 1935: Hell Freezes Over - by John Patrick
- 1938: On Borrowed Time - by Paul Osborn
- 1938: I Married An Angel - Musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (with Walter Slezak )
- 1938: Knickerbocker Holiday - Musical by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson (with Walter Huston )
- 1939: Stars in Your Eyes - Musical by Arthur Schwartz and Dorothy Fields (with Jimmy Durante and Ethel Merman )
- 1939: Morning's At Seven - by Paul Osborn
- 1940: Higher and Higher - Musical by Rodgers and Hart (with June Allyson )
- 1940: Charlie's Aunt - by Brandon Thomas
- 1942: By Jupiter - Musical by Rodgers and Hart
- 1946: Annie Get Your Gun - Musical by Irving Berlin and Dorothy Fields (with Ethel Merman) - 1,147 performances until 1949
- 1946: Happy Birthday - Musical by Anita Loos with songs by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
- 1947: John Loves Mary - by Norman Krasna
- 1948: Mister Roberts - by Thomas Heggen (with Henry Fonda) - 1,157 performances until 1951
- 1949: South Pacific - Musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein - 1,925 performances until 1954
- 1950: The Wisteria Trees - by Leland Hayward
- 1952: Wish You Were Here - Musical by Arthur Kober and Harold Rome
- 1953: Picnic - by William Inge
- 1953: Kind Sir - by Norman Krasna (with Charles Boyer)
- 1954: Fanny - Musical by SN Behrman based on Marcel Pagnol and Harold Rome - 888 performances until 1956
- 1956: Middle of the Night - by Lehman Engel (with Edward G. Robinson , Gena Rowlands and Martin Balsam )
- 1958: The World of Suzie Wong - after Richard Mason
- 1960: There was a little girl - by Daniel Taradash (with Jane Fonda)
- 1962: All American musical by Charles Strouse and Mel Brooks
- 1962: Mr. President - Musical by Irving Berlin (with Robert Ryan )
- 1970: Look for the Lilies - Musical by Jule Styne and Leonard Spigelgass
- 1980: Horowitz and Mrs. Washington - by Henry Denker
Web links
- Joshua Logan in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Logan, Joshua |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Logan, Joshua Lockwood III |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film and theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Texarkana , Texas, United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 1988 |
| Place of death | New York City , New York, United States |