Logan, Joshua.

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Biographical Note

  • 1908, Oct. 5: Born, Texarkana, Tex.
  • 1927: Diploma, Culver Military Academy,Culver, Ind.
  • 1927 - 1931 : Attended Princeton University,Princeton, N.J.
  • 1928 - 1935 : Actor, codirector, University Players,Falmouth, Mass.
  • 1931: Studied under Konstantin Stanislavsky,Moscow Art Theatre,Moscow, USSR
  • 1938: Director, On Borrowed Time, a play by Paul Osborn Director, I Married an Angel, a play by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart Director, Knickerbocker Holiday, a play by Maxwell Anderson
  • 1940: Married Barbara O'Neil (divorced 1941) Director, Charley's Aunt, a play by Brandon Thomas
  • 1942 - 1945 : Captain, United States Army Air Corps
  • 1945: Married Grace (Nedda) Harrigan Connolly
  • 1946: Director, Annie Get Your Gun, a play by Herbert and Dorothy Fields Director, Happy Birthday, a play by Anita Loos
  • 1947: Director, John Loves Mary, a play by Norman Krasna
  • 1948: Director, coauthor, Mister Roberts, a play by Thomas Heggen and Joshua Logan
  • 1949: Director, coauthor, coproducer, South Pacific, a play by Oscar Hammerstein and Joshua Logan
  • 1950: Pulitzer Prize, coauthor, South Pacific Tony Award, Best Director, South Pacific Director, author, coproducer, The Wisteria Trees
  • 1952: Director, coauthor, coproducer, Wish You Were Here, a play by Arthur Kober and Joshua Logan
  • 1953: Director, coproducer, Picnic, a play by William Inge Director, producer, Kind Sir, a play by Norman Krasna
  • 1954: Director, coauthor, coproducer, Fanny, a play by S. N. Behrman and Joshua Logan
  • 1955: Director, Picnic, a Columbia Pictures film Golden Globe Award, Best Director, Picnic
  • 1956: Director, Bus Stop, a Twentieth Century-Fox film
  • 1957: Director, Sayonara, a Warner Brothers film Director, South Pacific, a Magna-Twentieth Century-Fox film
  • 1958: Director, coproducer, The World of Suzy Wong, a play by Paul Osborn
  • 1961: Director, producer, Fanny, a Warner Brothers film
  • 1962: Director, Mr. President, a play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
  • 1964: Director, producer, Ensign Pulver, a Warner Brothers film
  • 1967: Director, Camelot, a Warner Brothers film
  • 1969: Director, Paint Your Wagon, a Paramount Pictures film
  • 1974: Director, coauthor, coproducer, Miss Moffat, a play by Emlyn Williams and Joshua Logan
  • 1976: Author, Josh; My Up and Down, In and Out Life (New York: Delacorte Press. 408 pp.) Director, author, lyricist, Rip Van Winkle, a play
  • 1978: Author, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me (New York: Delacorte Press. 368 pp.)
  • 1982: Director, translator, Carmen, an opera by Georges Bizet, performed by Shreveport Symphony Orchestra,Shreveport, La.
  • 1983: Director, author, Huck and Jim on the Mississippi, a play
  • 1983 - 1986 : Instructor, Department of Theatre, Florida Atlantic University,Boca Raton, Fla.
  • 1988, July 12: Died, New York, N.Y.

From the guide to the Joshua Logan Papers, 1723-1992, (bulk 1940-1980), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)

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