Word: negulesco
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State of the Cinema. For Boss Jack Warner, the triumph was edged with irony. It was no secret that Warner had allowed Johnny Belinda to be made only over his protests and that he had parted company with its director, Jean Negulesco, when the picture was finished. It was also well known that Warner had thoroughly disliked Treasure of the Sierra Madre, had held up its release and later parted company with Director Huston. At the presentation, Jack Warner had to listen to a pointed slight in Huston's acceptance speech: "If this [the Oscar] were hollow...
While he practices at his piano, Valencia-born Iturbi often dictates letters to his secretary or talks to his two grandchildren. He speaks to his grandchildren in Spanish, to his butler in Italian, to his close friend Director Jean Negulesco in French, to others in a somewhat mangled English...