Norman Krasna

Norman Krasna

1909-11-07 Queens, New York City, New York, USA 44 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies which centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943's Princess O'Rourke, a film he also directed.

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I'd Rather Be Rich

I'd Rather Be Rich

1964

Writer

5.8
Writing

An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet h...

Sunday in New York

Sunday in New York

1963

Theatre Play, Screenplay

6.6
Writing

An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.

My Geisha

My Geisha

1962

Screenplay, Story

6.6
Writing

Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version...

Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order ...

Who Was That Lady?

Who Was That Lady?

1960

Writer, Theatre Play, Producer

6.2
Writing Producing

In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story tha...

Indiscreet

Indiscreet

1958

Screenplay, Theatre Play

6.6
Writing

Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, whil...

Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy

1956

Writer

6.2
Writing

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' so...

The Ambassador's Daughter

The Ambassador's Daughter

1956

Producer, Director, Writer

4.3
Producing Directing Writing

While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.

White Christmas

White Christmas

1954

Writer

7.2
Writing

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romanticall...

Clash by Night

Clash by Night

1952

Producer

6.7
Producing

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Two Tickets to Broadway

Two Tickets to Broadway

1951

Producer

4.3
Producing

A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.

The Blue Veil

The Blue Veil

1951

Producer

6.6
Producing

A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

Behave Yourself!

Behave Yourself!

1951

Producer

6.0
Producing

A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.

The Big Hangover

The Big Hangover

1950

Director, Producer, Writer

6.1
Directing Producing Writing

A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.

John Loves Mary

John Loves Mary

1949

Theatre Play

4.8

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That h...

Dear Ruth

Dear Ruth

1947

Theatre Play

6.6

Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to b...

Practically Yours

Practically Yours

1944

Writer

Writing

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembe...

Bride by Mistake

Bride by Mistake

1944

Story

6.1
Writing

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose ma...

Princess O'Rourke

Princess O'Rourke

1943

Director, Screenplay

6.3
Directing Writing

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

It Started with Eve

It Started with Eve

1941

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a...

The Flame of New Orleans

The Flame of New Orleans

1941

Writer

6.3
Writing

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

The Devil and Miss Jones

The Devil and Miss Jones

1941

Writer, Associate Producer

7.7
Writing Producing

The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

1941

Story, Screenplay

6.2
Writing

Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her? T...

It's a Date

It's a Date

1940

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situ...

Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother

1939

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, D...

Three Loves Has Nancy

Three Loves Has Nancy

1938

Producer

4.2
Producing

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

You and Me

You and Me

1938

Story

6.7
Writing

Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Am...

The First Hundred Years

The First Hundred Years

1938

Story, Producer

6.0
Writing Producing

David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC...

Big City

Big City

1937

Producer, Story

7.4
Producing Writing

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob contr...

As Good as Married

As Good as Married

1937

Story

7.0
Writing

When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

The King and the Chorus Girl

The King and the Chorus Girl

1937

Writer

5.5
Writing

A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.

Fury

Fury

1936

Story

7.4
Writing

Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wr...

Wife vs. Secretary

Wife vs. Secretary

1936

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Linda, the wife of a publishing executive, suspects that her husband Van’s relationship with his attractive secretary Whitey is more than professional...

Hands Across the Table

Hands Across the Table

1935

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Four Hours to Kill!

Four Hours to Kill!

1935

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a...

Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan

1935

Story

7.8
Writing

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop...

The Richest Girl in the World

The Richest Girl in the World

1934

Writer

5.7
Writing

Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't ...

The Countess of Monte Cristo

The Countess of Monte Cristo

1934

Additional Writing

6.0

A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow ext...

Meet the Baron

Meet the Baron

1933

Story

4.2
Writing

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Bombshell

Bombshell

1933

Additional Writing

6.5

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

So This Is Africa

So This Is Africa

1933

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

Parole Girl

Parole Girl

1933

Screenplay, Original Story

5.9
Writing

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

That's My Boy

That's My Boy

1932

Screenplay

Writing

Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders a...

Hollywood Speaks

Hollywood Speaks

1932

Screenplay, Story

Writing

The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainm...