Joshua Logan Biography, Age, Weight, Height, Friend, Like, Affairs, Favourite, Birthdate & Other

Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American film and stage director best known for directing some of the most long lasting and renowned plays of Broadway, many of which were co-authored, produced and co-produced by him. Starting his career in the Broadway as an actor with the play Carry Nation in the early 1930s he eventually served as an assistant stage manager before endeavouring into stage direction. His first significant success as stage director came with the musical I Married an Angel  during the late 1930s following which he delivered a series of outstanding plays that became great hits.

Classics such as Fanny, South Pacific, Annie Get Your Gun, Mister Roberts and Charley’s Aunt were brought to Broadway by him. In 1948 he jointly received the Tony Award for penning down Mister Roberts along with Thomas Heggen, the writer of the original novel. In 1950 he co-received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama along with Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers and for co-authoring South Pacific. He was one of those theatre directors who also accomplished to carve out a niche for

himself in Hollywood as well with hit and successful films like Picnic and Sayonara. Other notable films of Logan, most of which he delivered during the 1950s and 1960s included Paint Your Wagon, South Pacific and Bus Stop. His autobiography Josh: My Up-and-Down, In-and-Out Life was published in 1976.