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Tag Archives: Norman Taurog
A Bedtime Story (1933) Norman Taurog, Maurice Chevalier

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanizing. Read More »
Strike Me Pink (1936) Norman Taurog, Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers

After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. Read More »
Sergeant Dead Head (1965) Norman Taurog, Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero

An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit Read More »
Men of Boys Town (1941) Norman Taurog, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson

Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. Read More »
Girl Crazy (1943)

A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West Read More »
That Midnight Kiss (1949) Norman Taurog

In Philadelphia, the soprano Prudence Budell returns from Europe after a period of five years Read More »
Design for Scandal (1941) Norman Taurog, Rosalind Russell, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold

To save his job, newsman Jeff Sherman offers to help his boss get out of a swingeing alimony settlement. Read More »
Jumping Jacks (1952) Norman Taurog, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Mona Freeman

Hap Smith, nightclub entertainer, has a new act since his former partner Read More »
The Birds and the Bees (1956) Norman Taurog, George Gobel, Mitzi Gaynor, David Niven

George ‘Hotsy’ Hamilton II, heir to a meat-packing fortune, returns home from an expedition in the Congo. Read More »
Lucky Night (1939) Norman Taurog, Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Joseph Allen

An heiress gets a crash course in the simple life when she marries a penniless man in this comedy. Read More »
Words and Music (1948) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Tom Drake, June Allyson

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Read More »
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934) Norman Taurog, Pauline Lord, W.C. Fields, Zasu Pitts

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew Read More »
Visit to a Small Planet (1960) Norman Taurog, Jerry Lewis, Joan Blackman, Earl Holliman

Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher’s will leaves Read More »
A Yank at Eton (1942) Norman Taurog, Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter

Mickey Rooney portrays Tim in this fish-out-of-water tale co-scripted by and based Read More »