Who is Joshua Logan?
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Joshua Logan was an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. Born in 1908, he worked on Broadway and in Hollywood for many decades, and some of the most popular films of the 1950s and 1960s are among his credits. Despite his prolific body of work, throughout his life he lived with being consistently minimized, with his roles on hits often unmentioned. From an early age, Joshua Logan was captivated by the theatre. From his first drama class in grade school, he knew he would be a part of the theatre world. When he moved to Princeton to attend university, an entire world opened up to him. He joined the University Players and worked on shows with other young talents, including Henry Fonda and James Stewart. His senior year at Princeton, Joshua Logan was offered a coveted scholarship to move to Moscow and study under Stanislavsky, one of the greatest directors and theorists of the age. He dropped out of college before graduation and took the opportunity. At 24, Joshua Logan moved to