Norman Taurog

Norman Taurog

February 23, 1899 · 127 years old

Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter. Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films, and directed Elvis Presley in nine films, more movies than any other director. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Director for the film Ski…

Known For

23 titles
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Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii

1961 · 1h 42m · Movie

After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates defies his parents' wishes for him to work at the family business and instead goes to work as a tour guide at his girlfriend's agency.

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Boys Town

Boys Town

1938 · 1h 36m · Movie

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

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G.I. Blues

G.I. Blues

1960 · 1h 44m · Movie

Tulsa McLean, a soldier with dreams of running his own nightclub, places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can win the heart of an untouchable dancer. But when Dynamite is transferred, Tulsa must replace him in the bet.

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It Happened at the World's Fair

It Happened at the World's Fair

1963 · 1h 45m · Movie

Mike and Danny hitch a ride to the World's Fair in Seattle after the sheriff seizes their crop duster biplane to cover Danny's gambling debts. Mike looks after the driver's 7 y.o. niece at the fair, where he meets a cute nurse.

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Room for One More

Room for One More

1952 · 1h 38m · Movie

New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into...

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Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

1940 · 1h 42m · Movie

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his par...

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Speedway

Speedway

1968 · 1h 34m · Movie

Poor bookkeeping saddles stock-car driver Steve Grayson with a huge bill for back taxes which hampers his ability to continue racing competitively.

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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

1965 · 1h 28m · Movie

A skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad robots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets.

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The Caddy

The Caddy

1953 · 1h 35m · Movie

Although gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony.

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Spinout

Spinout

1966 · 1h 33m · Movie

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938 · 1h 31m · Movie

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

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Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy

1943 · 1h 39m · Movie

A philandering young playboy is sent to college somewhere in the American West, and organizes a show, together with his sweetheart, to save the college from closure due to falling enrollments.

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If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

1932 · 1h 28m · Movie

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

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Tickle Me

Tickle Me

1965 · 1h 30m · Movie

A singing rodeo rider gets hired at an expensive all-female dude ranch/beauty spa and falls for a pretty fitness trainer who's under constant threat from a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold that's hidden in a gho...

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Live a Little, Love a Little

Live a Little, Love a Little

1968 · 1h 30m · Movie

Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

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Double Trouble

Double Trouble

1967 · 1h 32m · Movie

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

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Living It Up

Living It Up

1954 · 1h 35m · Movie

An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.

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The Stooge

The Stooge

1951 · 1h 40m · Movie

Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.

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Visit to a Small Planet

Visit to a Small Planet

1960 · 1h 25m · Movie

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth...

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Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars

1943 · 1h 44m · Movie

Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his ...

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Jumping Jacks

Jumping Jacks

1952 · 1h 36m · Movie

Nightclub comic Hap Smith assumes the identity of another soldier so he can tour army bases in a revue with his ex-partner Chuck Allen.

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The Hoodlum Saint

The Hoodlum Saint

1946 · 1h 31m · Movie

A former reporter returns home after serving in the Army during World War I and discovers that finding work is more difficult than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerf...

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Mad About Music

Mad About Music

1938 · 1h 40m · Movie

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things...

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