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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Play Author Born: October 5, 1908 in Texarkana, TX Death: July 12, 1988 in New York City, NY Biography:Born in Texas, "Joshua Logan" was raised in Louisiana by his widowed mother. After attending military school, Logan was accepted at Princeton University, where he organized the University Players, an ambitious summer-stock troupe. Among the Players were such future luminaries as "Jimmy Stewart", "Henry Fonda", "Margaret Sullavan" and "Myron McCormick", all of whom would work again with Logan after attaining fame. In the early 1930s, Logan was granted a scholarship to study acting and directing with Stanislavsky in Moscow; he later claimed that the most valuable lesson he learned from Stanislavsky was to respect, above all else, the words written down by the playwright. In 1932, Logan made his Broadway acting bow in Carrie Nation, thereafter concentrating on writing and directing.
In 1936, "David O. Selznick" brought Logan to Hollywood to work as a dialogue director, then co-director (with... Full Biography
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