Born in Texarkana, TX, he was three when his father, a lumberman, died, and was raised in Louisiana by his mother and a stepfather, an officer on the staff of the Culver Military Academy, which Logan eventually attended. He then went to Princeton, where he played football, boxed, and became active in school dramatics. In the late 1920s he organized the University Players, a summer stock group (in Cape Cod) that inaugurated the acting careers of James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan, and Myron McCormick, among others. He married one of the members of the troupe, Barbara O'Neil, but they were later divorced. Logan next gained a scholarship to the Moscow Art Theater and studied under Stanislavsky. Returning to the US in 1932, he directed and acted in many Broadway plays and was dialogue director in Hollywood on such films as THE GARDEN OF ALLAH (1936) and HISTORY IS MADE AT NIGHT (1937). He then co-directed the film I MET MY LOVE AGAIN (1938). That same year he scored his first major hit as a Broadway director with On Borrowed Time. This was followed by such a prolific output that by early 1940, suffering from exhaustion and insomnia, Logan had himself committed to a psychiatric hospital for more than a year. (He suffered a similar collapse in the late 1950s.) After returning to Broadway after WW II service with the Air Force Combat Intelligence, he scored a succession of hits as the director of such plays and musicals as Annie Get Your Gun, Mister Roberts (also co-author), South Pacific (also co-author), The Wisteria Trees (also author), Picnic, Fanny (also co-author), and Middle of the Night. It wasn't until 1955 that Logan turned seriously to the making of films. His first two productions, PICNIC (1955) and BUS STOP (1956), were unanimously acclaimed, and many consider Marilyn Monroe's performance in the latter the best of her career. But critics largely remained cool to much of Logan's subsequent, rather sparse, film work. He appeared as himself in the film MAIN STREET TO BROADWAY (1953). In 1977 he produced, directed, acted and sang in his first nightclub show, at New York's Rainbow Grill. He is the author of an autobiography [Josh: My Up and Down, In and Out Life (1976)] and a memoir [Movie Stars, Real People and Me (1978)]. In 1942, Logan married actress Nedda Harrigan (1899-1989), and they remained together until his death in 1988.  Nominated for Directing 1955: PICNIC  Nominated for Directing 1957: SAYONARA  Nominated for Best Picture 1961: FANNY - Producer at Mansfield 3 nominations