- Norman Krasna
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Norman Krasna Born November 7, 1909
Queens, New York, USADied November 1, 1984 (aged 74)
Los Angeles, California, USAYears active 1932–1964 Spouse Ruth Frazee (1940–1950)
Erle Chennault Galbraith (1951–1984)Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. 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. Later in his career, he also wrote plays, including Time for Elizabeth (1948) cowritten with Groucho Marx, and the popular Kind Sir which he adapted into the movie Indiscreet (1958). He married Al Jolson's widow Erle in 1951,[1] and they remained married until Krasna's death.
Contents
Selected filmography
- Bombshell (1933, screenplay)
- Meet the Baron (1933, co-author of screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz)
- The Richest Girl in the World (1934, screenplay and story)
- Hands Across the Table (1935, screenplay)
- Four Hours to Kill! (1935, screenplay)
- Wife vs. Secretary (1936, screenplay)
- Fury (1936, story)
- The King and the Chorus Girl (1937, co-writer with Groucho Marx)
- Bachelor Mother (1939, screenplay)
- The Flame of New Orleans (1941, screenplay)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941, screenplay)
- The Devil and Miss Jones (1941, screenplay and producer)
- Princess O'Rourke (1943, screenplay and director)
- The Big Hangover (1950, screenplay, director, and producer)
- Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
- The Blue Veil (1951, producer)
- Clash by Night (1952, producer)
- The Lusty Men (1952, producer)
- White Christmas (1954, screenplay)
- The Ambassador's Daughter (1956, screenplay, director, and producer)
- Indiscreet (1958, screenplay and play)
- Let's Make Love (1960, screenplay)
- My Geisha (1962, screenplay)
- Sunday in New York (1963, screenplay and play)
Theatre Credits
- Louder, Please (1932)
- Small Miracle (1935)
- The Man with Blond Hair (1941)
- Dear Ruth (1945)
- John Loves Mary (1947)
- Time for Elizabeth (1949) - written with Groucho Marx
- Kind Sir (1954)
- Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (1958)
- Sunday in New York (1962)
- Love in E-Flat (1967)
- Watch the Birdie! (1969)
- Bunny (1970)
- We Interrupt This Program (1975)
Academy Awards
Won
- Best Original Screenplay (Princess O'Rourke, 1943)
Nominated
- Best Original Story (The Richest Girl in the World, 1934)
- Best Original Story (Fury, 1936)
- Best Original Screenplay (The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941)
References
- ^ "Jolson's Widow Elopes With Producer". The News and Courier. 8 December 1951. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=taY1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=0BMLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4347,1883348&dq=al+jolson&hl=en. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
External links
Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) (1940–1960) Preston Sturges (1940) · Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles (1941) · Michael Kanin and Ring Lardner, Jr. (1942) · Norman Krasna (1943) · Lamar Trotti (1944) · Richard Schweizer (1945) · Muriel Box and Sydney Box (1946) · Sidney Sheldon (1947) · None Given (1948) · Robert Pirosh (1949) · Charles Brackett, D. M. Marshman, Jr. and Billy Wilder (1950) · Alan Jay Lerner (1951) · T. E. B. Clarke (1952) · Charles Brackett, Richard L. Breen and Walter Reisch (1953) · Budd Schulberg (1954) · Sonya Levien and William Ludwig (1955) · Albert Lamorisse (1956) · George Wells (1957) · Nathan E. Douglas and Harold Jacob Smith (1958) · Clarence Greene, Maurice Richlin, Russell Rouse and Stanley Shapiro (1959) · I. A. L. Diamond and Billy Wilder (1960)
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