Norman Krasna

Norman Krasna

Nascimento : 1909-11-07, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1984-11-01

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies which centered on a case of mistaken identity. 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.

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Norman Krasna

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Com Qual dos Dois?
Writer
An updated remake of It Started With Eve (1941). A young heiress is summoned to the bedside of her dying grandfather. The man's last wish is to meet her fiance, but problems arise when the fiance is delayed and a young chemical engineer is persuaded to take his place. When the grandfather suddenly (and secretly) recovers, he uses the situation to his advantage - playing matchmaker in an attempt to ensure his granddaughter's happiness.
Um Domingo em Nova York
Screenplay
Eileen is 22 and is smarting from her breakup with Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course, Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However, Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile, Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York, and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike, a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption.
Um Domingo em Nova York
Theatre Play
Eileen is 22 and is smarting from her breakup with Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. Eileen confides to her brother that she thinks she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the world. Adam assures her that sex is not what all men look for and insists he hasn't slept around. Of course, Adam is lying and is in hot pursuit of a tryst with his occasional girlfriend Mona. However, Adam's date with Mona has a series of job related interruptions. Meanwhile, Eileen decides to see if she can have some fun for herself in New York, and seems to find the perfect candidate in Mike, a man she meets on the bus. But things get complicated when Russ pops in with a proposal and a mistaken assumption.
Minha Doce Gueixa
Story
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
Minha Doce Gueixa
Screenplay
Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
Adorável Pecadora
Screenplay
Ao descobrir que será alvo de uma peça teatral satírica, o bilionário Jean-Marc Clement resolve ir ao teatro para ver os ensaios. É lá que ele conhece a bela Amanda (Marilyn Monroe) e decide fazer parte da equipe para ficar perto dela.
Quem Era Aquela Pequena?
Producer
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Quem Era Aquela Pequena?
Theatre Play
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Quem Era Aquela Pequena?
Writer
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
Indiscreta
Theatre Play
Philip (Cary Grant), um americano rico, e uma famosa atriz, Anne (Ingrid Bergman), se encontram de maneira inusitada. Anne insiste em conquistá-lo, como faz com todos os homens. Embora Philip resista, acaba fisgado, e ela também não consegue resistir ao charme eletrizante do galã. Quando Cary Grant e Ingrid Bergman se reuniram novamente em Indiscreta - mais de uma década depois de Interlúdio, de Hitchcock - um grande sucesso já era previsto. Essa dupla de astros mais o grande diretor Stanley Donen (Charada) transformam um simples romance, num clássico de alto nível. "Um filme inteligente, agradável, um belo conto sobre a acidentada estrada do amor" (Variety).
Indiscreta
Screenplay
Philip (Cary Grant), um americano rico, e uma famosa atriz, Anne (Ingrid Bergman), se encontram de maneira inusitada. Anne insiste em conquistá-lo, como faz com todos os homens. Embora Philip resista, acaba fisgado, e ela também não consegue resistir ao charme eletrizante do galã. Quando Cary Grant e Ingrid Bergman se reuniram novamente em Indiscreta - mais de uma década depois de Interlúdio, de Hitchcock - um grande sucesso já era previsto. Essa dupla de astros mais o grande diretor Stanley Donen (Charada) transformam um simples romance, num clássico de alto nível. "Um filme inteligente, agradável, um belo conto sobre a acidentada estrada do amor" (Variety).
Bundle of Joy
Writer
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an adorable baby on the steps of the foundling home and the folks inside mistake her for the mother. Fisher, well-meaning, but obtuse, tries to help her out with the baby, and the buds of romance begin to appear. Meanwhile old Merlin, the owner of the store, thinks he just might be a grandfather...
A Filha do Embaixador
Producer
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
A Filha do Embaixador
Writer
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
A Filha do Embaixador
Director
While on leave in Paris, a G.I. pursues an ambassador's daughter. Meanwhile she's out to prove to her father that soldiers can be gentlemen, too.
Natal Branco
Writer
Um dos clássicos absolutos do Natal, este musical conta com os insuperáveis Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Vera-Ellen e Rosemary Clooney que cantam temas de Irving Berlin como Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep ou o lendário White Christmas. O filme, sobre dois ex-soldados que tentam montar um espetáculo de Natal na estância de férias de um antigo general, é um semi-remake de Michael Curtiz do também natalício Holiday Inn, de 1942, para o qual foi criado o tema do título e que ganhou então o Óscar de Melhor Canção.
Só a Mulher Peca
Producer
An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
The Blue Veil
Producer
A World War I widow loses her only child and spends the rest of her life as a children's nurse.
A Verdade Não Se Diz
Writer
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
A Verdade Não Se Diz
Director
A young law school graduate is hired by a prestigious firm, but he neglects to inform them he is allergic to even a single whiff of alcohol.
Cupido Faz das Suas
Theatre Play
After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.
Dear Ruth
Theatre Play
Lt. William Seacroft, on leave from the Italian front, arrives at the New York home of Ruth Wilkins, with whom he has been corresponding. Unknown to both Ruth and Bill, Ruth's younger sister, Miriam, has been writing the letters and signing Ruth's name as part of a program to keep up soldiers' morale. Although Ruth has just gotten engaged to a coworker, she agrees to see Bill and pretend she wrote the letters.
Practically Yours
Writer
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Bride by Mistake
Story
The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter, a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood, and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis, who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.
Sua Alteza Quer Casar
Screenplay
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
Sua Alteza Quer Casar
Director
A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.
It Started with Eve
Screenplay
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Paixão Fatal
Writer
In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.
O Diabo e a Mulher
Associate Producer
O milionário J.P. Merrick, tirânico dono de uma loja de departamento, é o diabo em pessoa para todos os seus empregados. Quando Merrick resolve se passar por empregado da loja para descobrir o que os funcionários dizem e pensam sobre ele, ele conhece a Srta. Jones. Tentando ajudá-lo, a Srta. Jones acaba por colocar Merrick em uma série de problemas. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
O Diabo e a Mulher
Writer
O milionário J.P. Merrick, tirânico dono de uma loja de departamento, é o diabo em pessoa para todos os seus empregados. Quando Merrick resolve se passar por empregado da loja para descobrir o que os funcionários dizem e pensam sobre ele, ele conhece a Srta. Jones. Tentando ajudá-lo, a Srta. Jones acaba por colocar Merrick em uma série de problemas. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Um Casal do Barulho
Screenplay
Casal descobre que não está legalmente casado. Ann pensa que David irá pedi-la em casamento novamente, mas, quando isso não acontece, ela o expulsa de casa. David diz querer se casar com Ann, entretanto, ela já não o quer. David começa, então, a tentar reconquistá-la de qualquer forma. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Um Casal do Barulho
Story
Casal descobre que não está legalmente casado. Ann pensa que David irá pedi-la em casamento novamente, mas, quando isso não acontece, ela o expulsa de casa. David diz querer se casar com Ann, entretanto, ela já não o quer. David começa, então, a tentar reconquistá-la de qualquer forma. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
It's a Date
Screenplay
An aspiring actress is offered the lead in a major new play, but discovers that her mother, a more seasoned performer, expects the same part. The situation is further complicated when they both become involved with the same man.
Mãe Por Acaso
Screenplay
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
Three Loves Has Nancy
Producer
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
You and Me
Story
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
The First Hundred Years
Producer
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
The First Hundred Years
Story
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Big City
Story
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Big City
Producer
Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.
Proposta Tentadora
Story
Para evitar pagamentos de pensão alimentícia e uma grande taxa de impostos, um chefe se casa com sua secretária e descobre que realmente está apaixonado por ela.
The King and the Chorus Girl
Writer
A destitute, bored monarch falls in love with a chorus girl.
Fúria
Story
Quando um injustamente acusado prisioneiro mal sobrevive a um ataque de uma turba de linchadores e é dado como morto, ele vingativamente decide responsabilizar a multidão pelo seu assassinato. Joe Wilson e Katherine Grant estão namorando, mas ele não tem dinheiro suficiente para se casar. Então Katherine viaja pelo país para ganhar dinheiro. Mas as coisas dão desastrosamente errado para Joe quando ele para em uma pequena cidade e é confundido com um assassino procurado. Ao longo do filme, Fritz Lang nos mostra como um homem decente e civilizado pode tornar-se um homem cruel e amargo.
Ciúmes
Screenplay
Magazine publisher Van Stanhope is a hard-working, dynamic executive very happily married to his beautiful wife Linda. Although their relationship is built on unconditional trust, friends, and even Van's mother, caution Linda about the dangers of allowing Whitey, her husband's extremely sexy secretary, to continue to have access to him. Although Whitey has a faithful boyfriend, she secretly harbors unrequited feelings for her boss. When they take a business trip to Havana, circumstantial evidence convinces Linda that the rumors she's heard may have a basis in fact.
Hands Across the Table
Screenplay
A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.
Four Hours to Kill!
Screenplay
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Romance em Nova York
Story
Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides Karel from the immigration authorities and ultimately falls in love with him. In addition to Karel's illegal-alien status, the plot is complicated by a crooked lawyer and a group of well-meaning welfare workers who endeavor to place Sylvia's kid brother Frank in a foster home.
A Pequena Mais Rica do Mundo
Writer
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Additional Writing
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.
Meet the Baron
Story
A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.
Bombshell
Additional Writing
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
So This Is Africa
Story
Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.
Parole Girl
Screenplay
A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.
That's My Boy
Screenplay
Featuring members of the 1931 National Champion football team from the University of Southern California Trojans, with team members Russell Saunders and Oscar "Dutch" Hendrian also cast in roles other than just team members.
Hollywood Speaks
Story
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.
Hollywood Speaks
Screenplay
The darkest side of Tinseltown is depicted in this drama that centers upon a Hollywood columnist determined to reveal the awful truth about entertainment business.