My journey ends here...
NEGULESCO Jean
Born Ioan Negulescu.
Date of birth : February 26, 1900, Craiova, Romania.
Date of death : July 18, 1993, Marbella, Spain.
Portrait 
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Profession first set painter, he took the step until becoming a director.
Address
* 1946 : 344B South Reeves Drive, Beverly Hills (
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Story
Native to Romania, he emigrated to the USA in 1927.
On March 4, 1926, he married Winifred Havlicek. They divorced on June 6, 1938.
He first worked for the Warner where he directed "The Mask of Dimitrios" (1944) and "Humoresque" (1947).
On July 21, 1946 he married Ruth "Dusty" Anderson (1916, Ohio-September 12, 2007, Spain)(
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December 31, 1948 he attended the New Year's Eve party at producer Sam Spiegel's house 
For this glamorous project, supposed to supplant the television, the studio casted its three main stars : Lauren
Bacall, Betty Grable and Marilyn.
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On November 4, 1953, premiere of the movie 
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He belonged to the small group of directors who refused to publicly comment the issues with Marilyn during a shooting.
Despite the huge success of "How to Marry a Millionaire?", Marilyn and him didn't work together again.
They should have meet again on the shooting of "Something's Got to Give", where he had to replace George Cukor to end the movie.
Bibliography
"Things I Did... And Things I Think I Did", Jean Negulesco, New York, Simon &
Schuster, 1984.
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