JOSHUA LOGAN

'Joshua Logan' (October 5, 1908- July 12, 1988) was a stage and film director and writer.
Joshua Lockwood Logan III was born in Texarkana, Texas and attended Culver Military Academy in Indiana before enrolling at Princeton. As a student, Logan helped form the University Players with Henry Fonda and James Stewart, and along with fellow "Golden Period" performers Stewart and Jose Ferrer was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club. Before graduating in 1931, he went to Moscow on a scholarship to study method acting with Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre.
Logan began his Broadway career as an actor in ''Carry Nation'' in 1932. He went to Hollywood in 1936 to work with producer David O. Selznick. When he returned to Broadway, he directed ''Knickerbocker Holiday'', ''Morning's at Seven'', ''Charlie's Aunt'', and ''By Jupiter''. His career was interrupted by military service in England with the United States Army Air Corps Combat Intelligence division during World War II. He married his second wife, actress Nedda Harrigan, in 1945; Logan's previous marriage, to actress Barbara O'Neil, a colleague of his at the University Players in the 1930s, had ended in divorce.
After the war, Logan directed the Broadway productions ''Annie Get Your Gun'', ''John Loves Mary'', ''Mister Roberts'', ''South Pacific'', ''Wish You Were Here'', and ''Fanny''. He shared the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for co-writing ''South Pacific''. The show also earned him a Tony Award for Best Director.
When director John Ford became sick, Logan reluctantly returned to Hollywood to complete the filming of ''Mister Roberts'' (1955). Logan's other hit films included ''Picnic'' (1955), ''Bus Stop'' (1956), ''Sayonara'' (1957), and ''South Pacific'' (1958). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for ''Picnic'' and ''Sayonara''. His later Broadway musicals ''All-American'' (1962) and ''Mr. President'' (1962) and the films of Lerner and Loewe's ''Camelot'' (1967), and ''Paint Your Wagon'' (1969) were less acclaimed. Logan's 1976 autobiography ''Josh: My Up-and-Down, In-and-Out Life'' talks frankly about his bipolar disorder. He appeared with his wife in the 1977 nightclub revue ''Musical Moments,'' featuring Logan's most popular Broadway numbers. He published ''Movie Stars, Real People, and Me'' in 1978. From 1983-1986, he taught theater at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
Logan died in 1988 in New York of supranuclear palsy.

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★ Filmography

★ Papers at Library of Congress