Joshua Logan started directing plays while he was still at Princeton and among the first actors he directed were Henry Fonda and James Stewart. His graduation from Princeton was delayed to accompany a classmate to Russia to study with Konstantin Stanislavski, inventor of "method acting". Stanislavsko told him, "To be truly creative you must find ...
Not since Attila the Hun swept across Europe, leaving five hundred years of total blackness, has there been a man like Lee Marvin.
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[As a perfectionist who strove for naturalism among his actors] When people tell me the direction was wonderful, I know I've failed. The audience should be entranced, hypnotized, transported like children listening to a fairy tale. The individual actor, playwright, or director who breaks the spell by drawing attention to himself and crowing 'See how clever I am!' is a crook.
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[on Marilyn Monroe] As near genius as any actress I ever knew.
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Fact
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"South Pacific" in a Lincoln Center Theater production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2010 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle McCulloh Award for (Shows Written between 1920 and 1980).
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"South Pacific" in a Lincoln Center Theater production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 2011 Back Stage Garland Award for Production.
Directed José Ferrer in his first major role, the title role in Charley's Aunt. He was subsequently called on by Ferrer to act as a "play doctor" in his first production of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1946. Mel Ferrer was directing, but so openly despised the play that he had inserted several absurd bits of staging in order to downplay the more sentimental aspects. Logan removed all of these, and the result was Ferrer's best-known role.
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With Bretaigne Windust and Charles Crane Leatherbee, founded the University Players theatre group at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. [1932]
Wrote in his autobiography that he was offered the chance to direct My Fair Lady (1964), but the offer was withdrawn when he suggested that some scenes be shot on location in London.
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Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 549-550. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
Won seven Tony Awards: two in 1948 for "Mister Roberts," with collaborator Thomas Heggen as Best Authors and as writers of the Best Play winner; four in 1950 for "South Pacific," as Best Director, Best Authors (Musical) with Oscar Hammerstein II, Best Producers (Musical) wirh Richard Rodgers, Hammerstein and Leland Hayward, and as writers, along with Rodgers and Hammerstein, of the Best Musical winner; and one in 1953, as Best Director for William Inge's "Picnic." He was also Tony-nominated on two other occasions: in 1959, as co-producer of Best Play nominee "Epitaph for George Dillon," and in 1962 as Best Director (Musical) for "All American."
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A PhD dissertation written on him by Phil Boroff focused on his use of stage technique on film, and film technique on stage.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Live from Lincoln Center
2010
TV Series play - 1 episode
Great Performances
2006
TV Series book by - 1 episode
South Pacific
2001
TV Movie adaptation
Mister Roberts
1984
TV Movie play
Ensign Pulver
1964
based on a play by / screenplay
Fanny
1961
play
South Pacific
1958
adapted from the play "South Pacific"
Fanny
1956
TV Movie play
Mister Roberts
1955
based on the play by / screenplay
Tonight on Broadway
1948
TV Series play - 1 episode
Higher and Higher
1943
book of musical play
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
Paint Your Wagon
1969
Camelot
1967
Ensign Pulver
1964
Fanny
1961
Tall Story
1960
South Pacific
1958
Sayonara
1957
Bus Stop
1956
Picnic
1955
Mister Roberts
1955
uncredited
I Met My Love Again
1938
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mister Roberts
1984
TV Movie consultant
Fanny
1961
production: produced on the stage by: Based upon the play "Fanny"
The World of Suzie Wong
1960
original stage director
Middle of the Night
1959
stage director
Indiscreet
1958
"Kind Sir" was produced on the stage by
South Pacific
1958
originally produced on the stage by
Picnic
1955
produced on the stage by
Suez
1938
diction coach: Annabella - uncredited
History Is Made at Night
1937
dialogue director - uncredited
The Garden of Allah
1936
dialogue director - uncredited
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Ensign Pulver
1964
producer
Fanny
1961
producer
Tall Story
1960
producer
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Main Street to Broadway
1953
Josh Logan
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1987
Documentary the producers wish to thank: for their cooperation in the making of this film
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend
1987
Documentary
Himself
Josh, the Logan Legend
1986
Documentary
Himself
Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of American Music
1985
TV Movie documentary
Himself
One on One
1983
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Musical Comedy Tonight II
1981
TV Movie
Himself
The Rebels: Marlon Brando
1981
Video documentary
Himself
The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts
1979
TV Special
Himself
The Merv Griffin Show
1976-1978
TV Series
Himself
The Mike Douglas Show
1977
TV Series
Himself - Director
The David Frost Show
1969
TV Series
Himself
Gold Fever
1969
Documentary short
Himself
Cinema
1967
TV Series documentary
Himself
Person to Person
1959
TV Series documentary
Himself
Critic at Large
1949
TV Series
Himself - Director
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Love, Marilyn
2012
Documentary
Himself
Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies
1996
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies
1982
TV Movie documentary
Himself (uncredited)
The Story of Camelot
1967
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1960
Star on the Walk of Fame
Walk of Fame
Motion Picture
On 8 February 1960. At 6235 Hollywood Blvd.
1956
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Director
Picnic (1955)
1956
WGA Award (Screen)
Writers Guild of America, USA
Best Written American Comedy
Mister Roberts (1955)
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1962
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Picture
Fanny (1961)
1962
DGA Award
Directors Guild of America, USA
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Fanny (1961)
1958
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Director
Sayonara (1957)
1958
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Director
Sayonara (1957)
1958
DGA Award
Directors Guild of America, USA
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Sayonara (1957)
1957
DGA Award
Directors Guild of America, USA
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Bus Stop (1956)
1957
Silver Ribbon
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Best Foreign Film (Miglior Film Straniero)
Picnic (1955)
1956
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Director
Picnic (1955)
1956
DGA Award
Directors Guild of America, USA
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
$700,000
