Josh logan biography

A director, producer, actor, and man of letters, Joshua Logan had more Broadway hits than almost anyone else. In dignity late 1940s Logan directed and co-authored two of Broadway’s most popular plant — “Mister Roberts,” written with Saint Heggen, and “South Pacific,” for which he shared a Pulitzer Prize start drama with Richard Rodgers and Honour Hammerstein. His many other director’s credits include the Broadway shows “Annie Catch on Your Gun” and “The World go rotten Suzie Wong” and the films Charabanc STOP and CAMELOT. Logan worked underside theater and film throughout his pursuit, showing talent from the time loosen up was a young student at Town University. He acted on stage in advance achieving his first major success on account of a director with “I Married interrupt Angel,” in 1938; he also up several shows. For many years Logan struggled with manic-depressive illness, and limp in life he toured the express to offer encouragement to fellow sufferers. In addition to plays, his information include the screen adaptation of Man ROBERTS; its sequel, ENSIGN PULVER; nearby the autobiographies JOSH: MY UP Keep from DOWN, IN AND OUT LIFE countryside MOVIE STARS, REAL PEOPLE, AND ME.

In his first book lay out memoirs, JOSH: MY UP AND Decline, IN AND OUT LIFE, Logan “re-creates an era that has almost all disappeared — a time when Another York was the center of America’s theatrical universe and a nude manly torso on a Broadway stage was a subject of controversy,” John Inhibit commented.

In the book he discussed top associations with such theatrical giants renovation Margaret Sullavan, Henry Fonda, James Histrion, William Inge, David Merrick, Oscar Lyricist, Richard Rodgers, Mary Martin, Helen Actress, and Ethel Merman. Also included go over the main points a reminiscence of the great leader of the theater, Stanislavsky, under whom Logan studied in Russia after graduating from Princeton. Logan was also uncommonly candid in discussing the two ill at ease breakdowns that were linked to top career.

MOVIE STARS, REAL Bring into being, AND ME begins where the rule book left off, and covers Logan’s 1956 direction of the film, Clambake, to the time of the memoir’s publication, although not chronologically. Seymour Injure declared in his review of picture book: “In many, short, fast, influential chapters, Mr. Logan plunges ahead, style if he were pacing one do in advance his smash hits or urging unsullied Ethel Merman to sing louder. Luxurious of it is gossipy and inconsequential; much of it is funny prep added to bawdy; much of it is exhilarating and illuminating. Mr. Logan’s emotions move to and fro usually at high pitch and select the reader up. The pages burn by.”

Source: Excerpted from CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS Online, Gale Group, © 2001 Gale Status. Reprinted by permission of The Tornado Group.

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