biography
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Logan, Joshua (Lockwood III)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1908–88)
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| biography:
| Director and playwright, born in Texarkana, Texas, USA. He studied at Princeton, and in the late 1920s organized a summer stock company on Cape Cod that launched the careers of actors such as James Stewart and Henry Fonda. He then studied at the Moscow Art Theater under Constantin Stanislavsky, and began to direct and act on Broadway, as well as working on Hollywood films. His schedule led to a nervous collapse in the early 1940s, but he recovered and served with the US Air Force Combat Intelligence in World War 2. He returned to direct a series of hit plays and musicals, including Annie Get Your Gun (1946), Mister Roberts (also co-wrote stage version) (1948), and South Pacific (also co-wrote book) (1949). He also directed several successful films including Picnic (1955), Bus Stop (1956), and Camelot (1967). In 1977 he acted and sang in his own nightclub show at the Rainbow Grill in New York City. |
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