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.
Complete Filmography

I'd Rather Be Rich
1964
Writer
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
1963
Theatre Play, Screenplay
An innocent upstarter visits her airline pilot brother and meets a stranger she tries to seduce.

My Geisha
1962
Screenplay, Story
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
1960
Screenplay
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?
1960
Writer, Theatre Play, Producer
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
1958
Screenplay, Theatre Play
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
1956
Writer
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
1956
Producer, Director, Writer
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
1954
Writer
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
1952
Producer
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

Two Tickets to Broadway
1951
Producer
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
1951
Producer
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.

Behave Yourself!
1951
Producer
A young man takes in a dog that turns out to be wanted by mobsters.

The Big Hangover
1950
Director, Producer, Writer
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
1949
Theatre Play
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
1947
Theatre Play
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
1944
Writer
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
1944
Story
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
1943
Director, Screenplay
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

It Started with Eve
1941
Screenplay
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
1941
Writer
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

The Devil and Miss Jones
1941
Writer, Associate Producer
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
1941
Story, Screenplay
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
1940
Screenplay
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
1939
Screenplay
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
1938
Producer
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
1938
Story
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
1938
Story, Producer
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
1937
Producer, Story
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
1937
Story
When a boss proposes marriage to his secretary, she discovers that the arrangement is solely for tax purposes.

The King and the Chorus Girl
1937
Writer
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.

Fury
1936
Story
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
1936
Screenplay
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
1935
Screenplay
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

Four Hours to Kill!
1935
Screenplay
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
1935
Story
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
1934
Writer
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
1934
Additional Writing
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
1933
Story
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

Bombshell
1933
Additional Writing
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

So This Is Africa
1933
Screenplay
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

Parole Girl
1933
Screenplay, Original Story
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
1932
Screenplay
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders a...

Hollywood Speaks
1932
Screenplay, Story
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainm...