Movies by Jean Negulesco
As part of the cast:
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Le Jupon Rouge (1987)
Cast: Alida Valli, Guillemette Grobon, Marie-Christine Barrault …
Directed by: Geneviève Lefebvre
Concentration camp survivor and human rights activist Bacha (Alida Valli) is consumed with jealousy when her protégé, Claude (Guillemette Grobon), becomes an object of desire for…
As a director:
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The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
Cast: Max von Sydow, Michael Anderson Jr., Carroll Baker …
Directed by: George Stevens, David Lean, Jean Negulesco …
Swedish actor Max Von Sydow made his English-speaking debut in this gargantuan retelling of the life of Christ from Giant director George Stevens. The much-ballyhooed all-star cast includes…
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Jessica (1962)
Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Angie Dickinson, Noel-Noel …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco, Oreste Palella
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica (Angie Dickinson), angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local…
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The Best of Everything (1959)
Cast: Hope Lange, Stephen Boyd, Suzy Parker …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Rona Jaffe's best-selling novel gets the high-gloss Hollywood treatment in this romantic drama about the travails of three single roommates (Hope Lange, Diane Baker and Suzy Parker)…
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Daddy Long Legs (1955)
Cast: Fred Astaire, Leslie Caron, Terry Moore …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
While visiting France, an American millionaire meets a striking young woman who was orphaned during World War II. Vowing to take care of her for the rest of her life, he anonymously funds her…
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Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Cast: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Three American working women pin their hopes for love on wishes they make as they toss coins into the famous Trevi Fountain in Rome. Their wishes come true ... but only after a series of…
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How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
In this classic comedy, three New York models (Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall) set up an apartment with a mission: They plan to use their looks, charm and talent to catch and…
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Titanic (1953)
Cast: Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
An unhappily married couple, Julia and Richard Sturges (Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb), board the &NFi;Titanic&NFi_;, while one of their daughters falls in love with a boy from the…
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O. Henry's Full House (1952)
Cast: Charles Laughton, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark …
Directed by: Howard Hawks, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco …
Top movie talents lend their gifts to this 1952 anthology of O. Henry short-story adaptations, introduced and narrated by Nobel laureate John Steinbeck. "The Gift of the Magi," "The Clarion…
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Phone Call from a Stranger (1952)
Cast: Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Shelley Winters …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
In this classic drama, David Trask (Gary Merrill), the sole survivor of a plane crash, becomes obsessed with contacting the relatives of his doomed fellow passengers. The film follows…
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Three Came Home (1950)
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Claudette Colbert stars as American writer Agnes Newton Keith in this tensely dramatic true story of survival in the Pacific theater of operations during the dark days of World War II.…
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Johnny Belinda (1948)
Cast: Jane Wyman, Lew Ayres, Charles Bickford …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
In a Nova Scotia fishing village, a wonderful new world unfolds for deaf-mute Belinda McDonald (Jane Wyman) after kindly doctor Robert Richardson (Lew Ayres) takes a professional interest in…
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Road House (1948)
Cast: Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Celeste Holm …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
Director Jean Negulesco's film noir drama stars Ida Lupino as Lily Stevens, a sultry chanteuse from Chicago who sparks an intense rivalry between nightclub owner Jefty Robbins (Richard…
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Humoresque (1946)
Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant …
Directed by: Jean Negulesco
In director Jean Negulesco's stylish weeper, gifted, ambitious violinist Paul Boray (John Garfield) sells his body and soul to rich but unbalanced benefactress Helen Wright (Joan…