34 Facts About Joshua Logan

Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American theatre and film director, playwright and screenwriter, and actor.

Joshua Logan shared a Pulitzer Prize for co-writing the musical South Pacific and was involved in writing other musicals.

Logan, his mother, and his younger sister, Mary Lee, then moved to his maternal grandparents' home in Mansfield, Louisiana, which Logan used 40 years later as the setting for his play The Wisteria Trees.

Joshua Logan's mother remarried six years after his father's death and he then attended Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana, where his stepfather served on the staff as a teacher.

Joshua Logan began his Broadway career as an actor in Carry Nation in 1932.

Joshua Logan then spent time in London, where he staged two productions and directed a touring revival of Camille.

Joshua Logan staged Hell Freezes Over and returned to acting with A Room in Red and White.

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Joshua Logan went to Hollywood where he did some dialogue directing on The Garden of Allah, History Is Made at Night, and Suez.

Joshua Logan was given the chance to co-direct the feature film I Met My Love Again for Walter Wanger.

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Joshua Logan returned to Broadway where he had his first major success as a director with Paul Osborn's On Borrowed Time, which ran for 321 performances.

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Joshua Logan followed it with the musical I Married an Angel, which ran for 331 performances.

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Joshua Logan directed Knickerbocker Holiday, Stars in Your Eyes, Osborn's Morning's at Seven, Two For the Show, and Higher and Higher.

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Joshua Logan was selected to become an assistant director of Irving Berlin's This Is the Army and when in Europe organized "jeep shows" of entertainers serving as soldiers doing their shows near the front lines.

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Joshua Logan 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.

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Joshua Logan's directing career resumed with the musical Annie Get Your Gun, which ran for 1,147 performances.

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Joshua Logan followed it with Anita Loos' Happy Birthday, and Norman Krasna's John Loves Mary.

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Joshua Logan's golden run continued with Mister Roberts which he co-wrote as well as directed; it ran for 1157 performances and earned him a Tony Award.

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Joshua Logan shared the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for co-writing South Pacific.

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Joshua Logan wrote, produced and directed The Wisteria Tree, an adaptation of The Cherry Orchard, which was a minor success.

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Joshua Logan cowrote, coproduced, and directed the 1952 musical Wish You Were Here.

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Joshua Logan had another success with Picnic, the play by William Inge, which went for 477 performances.

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Krasna's Kind Sir lasted 166 performances, and Fanny which Joshua Logan co-wrote, co-produced and directed, ran 888 performances.

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When director John Ford became sick, Joshua Logan reluctantly returned to Hollywood to complete the filming of Mister Roberts.

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Joshua Logan directed the film adaptation of his own Picnic, for which Joshua Logan received an Oscar nomination.

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Joshua Logan returned to Broadway, directing Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky, which ran 477 performances.