Producer, writer, director and bon vivant Norman Krasna was educated at NYU, Columbia and the Brooklyn Law School. He worked as a film and theatre critic in New York before heading to Hollywood to join Warner Bros.' publicity department. Developing a talent for turning out funny material in a minimum amount of time, Krasna became a valuable man to have around for producers of such economical comedy films as Wheeler and Woolsey's So This Is Africa (1933) and Miriam Hopkins' The Richest Girl in the World (1934). He proved equally adept at drama, turning out the original stories for director Fritz Lang's powerful anti-lynching tract Fury (1936) and Lang's Brechtian You and Me (1938).
As busy on Broadway as he was in Hollywood, Krasna penned several popular stage plays, many of which (Dear Ruth, Kind Sir, Who Was That Lady?) were later committed to film. Krasna turned director for four films -- Princess O'Rourke (1943), The Big Hangover (1950) and The Ambassador's Daughter (1956) -- and served as producer for many more. A longtime friend of comedian Groucho Marx, Krasna collaborated with Groucho on the screenplay of the 1937 film comedy The King and the Chorus Girl and the later stage play Time for Elizabeth. Norman Krasna won a "Best Original Screenplay" Academy Award for Princess O'Rourke, and earned nominations for The Richest Girl in the World, Fury and The Devil and Miss Jones (1941).
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Indiscreet
Play Author |
1988 | |||
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I'd Rather Be Rich
Screenwriter |
1964 | |||
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Sunday in New York
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1963 | |||
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My Geisha
Screenwriter |
1962 | |||
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Let's Make Love
Screenwriter |
1960 | |||
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Who Was That Lady?
Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter |
1960 | |||
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Indiscreet
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1958 | |||
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Bundle of Joy
Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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The Ambassador's Daughter
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1956 | |||
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White Christmas
Screenwriter |
1954 | |||
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The Lusty Men
Producer |
1952 | |||
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Behave Yourself!
Producer |
1951 | |||
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The Blue Veil
Producer |
1951 | |||
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Two Tickets to Broadway
Producer |
1951 | |||
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The Big Hangover
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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John Loves Mary
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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Dear Ruth
Play Author |
1947 | |||
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Bride by Mistake
Screen Story |
1944 | |||
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Practically Yours
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Princess O'Rourke
Director, Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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It Started With Eve
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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The Devil and Miss Jones
Producer, Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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The Flame of New Orleans
Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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It's a Date
Screenwriter |
1940 | |||
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Bachelor Mother
Screenwriter |
1939 | |||
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The First Hundred Years
Producer |
1938 | |||
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Three Loves Has Nancy
Producer |
1938 | |||
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You and Me
Screen Story |
1938 | |||
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The Big City
Producer |
1937 | |||
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The King and the Chorus Girl
Screen Story, Screenwriter |
1937 | |||
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Fury
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Wife vs. Secretary
Screenwriter |
1936 | |||
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Four Hours to Kill
Play Author, Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Hands Across the Table
Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Romance in Manhattan
Screen Story |
1934 | |||
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The Richest Girl in the World
Screenwriter |
1934 | |||
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Love, Honor and Oh Baby!
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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Meet the Baron
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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Parole Girl
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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So This Is Africa
Screenwriter |
1933 | |||
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Hollywood Speaks
Screenwriter |
1932 | |||
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That's My Boy
Screenwriter |
1932 |







