Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. Read More »
Tag Archives: Norman Taurog
Rich, Young and Pretty (1951) Norman Taurog, Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey
Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, take his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. Read More »
Young Tom Edison (1940) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Fay Bainter, George Bancroft
Inventor Thomas Edison’s boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. Read More »
Dont Give Up the Ship (1959) Norman Taurog, Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer
John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Read More »
Blue Hawaii (1961) Norman Taurog, Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. Read More »
Presenting Lily Mars (1943) Norman Taurog, Judy Garland, Van Heflin, Fay Bainter
Talented small-town girl Lily Mars hounds producer John Thornway for a part in his new play, but he doesn’t want anything to do with stage-struck amateurs. Read More »
The Bride Goes Wild (1948) Norman Taurog, Van Johnson, June Allyson, Jackie ‘Butch’ Jenkins, Comedy, Romance
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Read More »
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Norman Taurog, Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran, Ann Gillis, Adventure, Family
Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Read More »
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) Norman Taurog, Jane Russell, Keenan Wynn, Ralph Meeker, Comedy, Crime
Laurel Stevens (Jane Russell) is a movie star who’s kidnapped by a pair of desperate amateurs – Mike Valla (Ralph Meeker) and “Dandy” (Keenan Wynn). Read More »
Follow the Leader (1930) Norman Taurog, Ed Wynn, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Crickets is the cheery, lovable chef at gangland’s favorite restaurant and, inadvertently ( and barely explainable), he becomes a hero in their eyes and becomes their unwilling leader. Read More »
You Cant Have Everything (1937) Norman Taurog, Alice Faye, The Ritz Brothers, Don Ameche, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. Read More »
The Caddy (1953) Norman Taurog, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Donna Reed, Comedy, Musical, Sport
The origin of Anthony and Miller, a wildly successful comedy team, can be traced back several years to Harvey Miller’s stage fright on the golf links. Read More »
Mad About Music (1938) Norman Taurog, Deanna Durbin, Herbert Marshall, Gail Patrick, Comedy, Drama, Musical
A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father Read More »
Hold ‘Em Jail (1932) Norman Taurog, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver, Comedy, Sport
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden’s championship team.
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Living It Up (1954) Norman Taurog, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Comedy
Pretty Wally Cooper, a reporter for the New York Chronicle convinces her editor to let her do a series of articles on Homer Flagg Read More »