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Norman Krasna

1909–1984 · American dramatist, screenwriter, and film director

Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director who penned screwball comedies centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna 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, which he also directed. Krasna wrote a number of successful Broadway plays, including Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary.

Norman Krasna, in order

  1. 1932 Hollywood Speaks: wrote · directed by Edward Buzzell
  2. 1932 That's My Boy: wrote · directed by Roy William Neill
  3. 1933 Bombshell: wrote · directed by Victor Fleming
  4. 1933 Love, Honor, and Oh Baby!: wrote · directed by Edward Buzzell
  5. 1933 Meet the Baron: wrote · directed by Walter Lang
  6. 1933 Parole Girl: wrote · directed by Edward F. Cline
  7. 1934 The Countess of Monte Cristo: wrote · directed by Karl Freund
  8. 1934 The Richest Girl in the World: wrote · directed by William A. Seiter
  9. 1935 Four Hours to Kill!: wrote · directed by Mitchell Leisen
  10. 1935 Hands Across the Table: wrote · directed by Mitchell Leisen
  11. 1935 Reckless: wrote · directed by Victor Fleming
  12. 1936 Fury: wrote · directed by Fritz Lang and Lesley Selander
  13. 1936 It Had to Happen: wrote · directed by Roy Del Ruth
  14. 1936 Wife vs. Secretary: wrote · directed by Clarence Brown · audiences 70% · streaming on HBO Max
  15. 1937 Big City: wrote, produced · directed by Frank Borzage and George B. Seitz
  16. 1937 The King and the Chorus Girl: wrote · directed by Mervyn LeRoy
  17. 1938 The First Hundred Years: produced · directed by Richard Thorpe
  18. 1938 Three Loves Has Nancy: produced · directed by Richard Thorpe
  19. 1938 You and Me: wrote · directed by Fritz Lang
  20. 1939 Bachelor Mother: wrote · directed by Garson Kanin
  21. 1940 It's a Date: directed, wrote
  22. 1941 It Started with Eve: wrote · directed by Henry Koster · audiences 85%
  23. 1941 Mr. & Mrs. Smith: wrote · directed by Alfred Hitchcock · critics 62%, audiences 48%
  24. 1941 The Devil and Miss Jones: wrote · directed by Sam Wood
  25. 1941 The Flame of New Orleans: wrote · directed by René Clair
  26. 1943 Princess O'Rourke: directed, wrote
  27. 1944 Practically Yours: wrote · directed by Mitchell Leisen
  28. 1949 Dear Wife: wrote · directed by Richard Haydn
  29. 1950 The Big Hangover: directed, wrote
  30. 1951 Behave Yourself!: produced · directed by George Beck
  31. 1951 The Blue Veil: produced · directed by Curtis Bernhardt · audiences 62%
  32. 1951 Two Tickets to Broadway: produced · directed by James V. Kern
  33. 1952 Clash by Night: produced · directed by Fritz Lang
  34. 1952 The Lusty Men: produced · directed by Nicholas Ray and Robert Parrish
  35. 1954 White Christmas: wrote · directed by Michael Curtiz
  36. 1956 Bundle of Joy: wrote · directed by Norman Taurog
  37. 1956 The Ambassador's Daughter: directed, wrote, produced
  38. 1958 Indiscreet: wrote · directed by Stanley Donen
  39. 1960 Let's Make Love: wrote · directed by George Cukor
  40. 1960 Who Was That Lady?: wrote, produced · directed by George Sidney
  41. 1961 Ça va être ta fête: wrote · directed by Pierre Montazel
  42. 1962 My Geisha: wrote · directed by Jack Cardiff
  43. 1963 Sunday in New York: wrote · directed by Peter Tewksbury