Joshua Lockwood Laughan III ( born Joshua Lockwood Logan III , 1908-1988) - American theater and film director, actor, writer.
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| Birth name | Joshua Lockwood Logan III |
| Date of Birth | October 5, 1908 |
| Place of Birth | Texarkana (TX) , USA |
| Date of death | July 12, 1988 (79 years) |
| Place of death | New York , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Profession | film director actor writer |
| Career | 1932-1987 |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize "For the best drama" [d] ( 1948 ) “Tony” award to the best author ( 1948 ) [d] ( 1950 ) [d] ( 1953 ) |
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Biography
Born in 1908 in a small town in eastern Texas, the son of Susan (nee Sets) and Joshua Lockwood Logan. When the boy was three years old, his father committed suicide. The family moved to the house of the mother's parents in Mansfield, Louisiana . Six years after the death of his father, Logan’s mother remarried, and Joshua began studying at Culver Academies College, where his stepfather worked. After graduation, he studied at Princeton University . There he became interested in classes in the student theater, where at the same time James Stewart and Henry Fonda played. Last year, Logan led the Princeton Triangle Club student troupe. Won the competition for the right to travel to Russia, to study at the Stanislavsky Theater. Dropping his studies and not having received a university degree, went to Moscow.
On Broadway he began his actor career in 1932. The first great success came in 1938 after his directorial work in the play “I Married an Angel” ( eng. I Married an Angel ). Over the next four years, he released the play annually, including the setting of the farce " Charley's Aunt " ( Eng. Charley's Aunt ). In 1942 he was called up for military service, which he completed in 1945 with the rank of captain.
He participated in the creation of several musicals in theaters of Broadway, the most successful of which are “ South Pacific ” ( Eng. South Pacific , 1949; received 10 Tony awards and the Pulitzer Prize ) and “Fanny” ( Engli. Fanny , 1954). Since 1955 he has been working in Hollywood, where he has put several films: Picnic ( English Picnic , 1955; two Oscars from 6 nominations and Golden Globe to Logan as the best director), Bus Stop ( English). Bus Stop , 1956), Sayonara ( English Sayonara , 1957; 4 Oscars for 10 nominations and one Golden Globe for 5 nominations), South of the Pacific Ocean (1958).
In the early 1960s, he returned to theatrical productions, including Camelot ( English Camelot , in 1967 filmed) and Paint Your Wagon (the name in Russian is California Gold).
In the 1980s he taught acting at Florida Atlantic University .
He died in 1988 from a supranuclear progressive paralysis .
Personal life
Since 1940, married to actress Barbara O'Neill (1910-1980). The marriage ended in 1942. In 1945 he married the actress Nedda Harrigan (1899-1989).
D. Logan suffered from a disease known as bipolar affective disorder .
Criticism
One of the most successful film critics in the history of American cinema, Roger Ebert , who called the director "one of the worst directors of his generation," was a well-known opponent of creativity. Thus, the picnic tape (1955), nominated for an Oscar as the best film of the year, Ebert put two of four stars, adding that it is “clumsy and absurd” [1] .
Notes
- ↑ Roger Ebert . Picnic (English) . RogerEbert.com (October 25, 1996). The appeal date is May 1, 2014.
Literature
- Joshua Logan. Josh: My Up and Down, In and Out Life. - New York: Delacorte Press, 1976. - ISBN 0440042356 .
Links
- Joshua Logan on the Internet Movie Database
- Joshua Logan Biography