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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 . Before graduating in 1931, he went to Moscow on a scholarship to study " Method Acting " with Konstantin Stanislavsky at the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1932, Logan began his Broadway career as an actor in 1932. He went to Hollywood in 1936 to work with producer David O. Selznick. When he returned to Broadway, he wrote and directed two popular shows ''On Borrowed Time'' and ''I Married an Angel''. 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 actress Nedda Harrigan in 1945. After the war, Logan directed Broadway shows ''Annie Get Your Gun'', ''John Loves Mary'', '' Mister Roberts '', '' South Pacific '' 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 ''. 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. He died in 1988 in New York of supranuclear palsy. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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