Norman Z. McLeod

Norman Z. McLeod

Рождение : 1898-09-20, Grayling, Michigan, USA

Смерть : 1964-01-27

История

Norman Zenos McLeod (September 20, 1898, Grayling, Michigan – January 27, 1964, Hollywood, California) was an American film director, cartoonist and writer. He is considered one of the best directors of comedy films of all time. McLeod made several successful and influential movies such as Taking A Chance (1928), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), Topper (1937) and Merrily We Live (1938). Other memorable films directed by McLeod includes It's a Gift (1934) with W.C. Fields, and the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). His nickname, as recorded on a publicity still on the set of Monkey Business, was "Macko." Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Z. McLeod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Профиль

Norman Z. McLeod

Фильмы

Псевдоним – Джесси Джеймс
Director
Боб Хоуп играет страхового агента 19-го века, чьи неудачные продажи заставляют его босса отправить его подальше на Запад, где он (предположительно) не принесет большого вреда. Не тут-то было: Хоупу удается продать полис страхования жизни на 100 тысяч долларов - преступнику Джесси Джеймсу (Уэнделл Кори), ничего хуже с точки зрения риска и придумать нельзя! В своих попытках заполучить полис обратно Хоуп обнаруживает, что его приняли за Джесси, - это входит в план Джесси, согласно которому Хоуп должен быть убит, а он сможет получить страховые деньги. Однако с помощью прелестной Ронды Флемминг (довольно добродетельной выгодоприобретательницы по полису Джесси), Хоуп приобретает репутацию виртуозного стрелка. В неминуемой перестрелке с бандой Джеймса Хоупу помогают несколько знаменитых "вестернцев": Гэри Купер, Рой Роджерс, Джин Отри, Джеймс "Мэверик" Гарнер и даже Тонто (Джей Силверхилз).
Public Pigeon No. 1
Director
Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.
Великая ночь Казановы
Director
Это случилось в итальянском городе Парма а 1757 году. Время настоящих страстей, убийства ради мести, признание в любви ради адюльтера, флирт ради легкой победы. И вот в самом центре таких событий оказался один человек, который прославил свое имя на все века — лучший фехтовальщик в Европе и самый знаменитый любовник во всей истории человечества Казанова! Но эта история не столько о нем, а скорее о его громком имени, которое сделало простого портняжку укравшего костюм великого любовника и выдавшего себя за него, на несколько дней героем сюжета…
Never Wave at a WAC
Director
A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many difficulties with the Army lifestyle. Moreover, her ex-husband is working as a consultant with the Army, and he uses his position to disrupt her romantic plans by making her join a group of WACs who are testing new equipment.
Мой любимый шпион
Director
Эрик Августин, шпион международного масштаба, ранен при задержании и находится в больнице. Спецслужбы уговаривают «Арахиса» Уайта, актера-комика, занятого на второстепенных ролях и, как две капли воды похожего на Эрика, заменить того в важной миссии в Танжере. Теперь Уайту предстоит с миллионом долларов вылететь в Марокко, чтобы выкупить важные микрофильмы. Но за ними охотятся и другие шпионы, включая бывшую подружку Августина, очаровательную Лили Долбрэй.
Let's Dance
Director
Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and jobless in New York, she runs into an old flame, her USO partner Donald Elwood, who agrees to help her fight for custody of the child.
Бледнолицый
Director
Кто-то на Диком Западе продает оружие индейцам. Для того, чтобы найти преступников, правительство, в обмен на помилование, отправляет в опасное путешествие Каламити Джейн и секретного агента под прикрытием, которые должны изображать из себя мужа и жену. Когда агента убивают, Джейн приходится срочно найти себе нового «мужа» – дантиста «Безболезненного» Питера Поттера, неудачника и труса, который хочет оставить варварский запад далеко позади и вернуться на восток. Когда на караван фургонов нападают индейцы, свою меткую стрельбу Джейн приписывает Поттеру, который мгновенно становится героем в глазах горожан, прикрытием Джейн, и приманкой для индейцев и торговцев оружием
Isn't It Romantic?
Director
Three sisters find romance in post-Civil War Indiana.
Дорога в Рио
Director
Два друга-авантюриста Скат и Хотлипс после долгих скитаний по Америке решают отправиться в Рио. На корабле они знакомятся с милой несчастной девушкой, невестой перфекта Бриджпорта. Она не любит своего жениха, но что-то необъяснимое мешает ей отказаться от свадьбы. Друзья решают помочь Люсии, еще не зная, какие опасные приключения ждут их. Шутки Хотлипса и Ската не оставят никого равнодушным, а музыкальная обработка картины даст фору любому современному фильму. И, конечно же, все кончится хорошо, ведь вопреки своей любви к деньгам, в этот раз друзья действуют от чистого сердца.
Тайная жизнь Уолтера Митти
Director
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
The Kid from Brooklyn
Director
Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The newspapers get hold of the story and photographers even catch Burleigh knock out Speed again. Speed's crooked manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter. Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to take a dive. Thinking he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swelled head which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle. He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.
Swing Shift Maisie
Director
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
The Powers Girl
Director
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Panama Hattie
Director
Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.
Jackass Mail
Director
An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.
Леди, будьте лучше
Director
Дикси Донеган и Эдди Крэйн - авторы песен, а до недавних пор еще и счастливая семейная пара. Увы, недопонимание привело их к разводу, несмотря на то, что они любят друг друга. К счастью, у них есть подруга Мэрилин Марш, которая всегда готова прийти на помощь! Вот и теперь перед ней стоит непростая задача снова воссоединить их сердца узами брака...
The Trial of Mary Dugan
Director
Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced by a young lawyer, the brother of the accused
Little Men
Director
Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.
Remember?
Original Story
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Remember?
Screenplay
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Remember?
Director
Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But Jeff's work puts a strain on the marriage and a divorce is planned. Sky uses an experimental memory loss drug to make Linda and Jeff forget their rough times (and the fact that they were married) and they fall in love all over again.
Topper Takes a Trip
Director
Mrs Topper's friend Mrs Parkhurst has convinced Mrs topper, to file for a divorce from Cosmo, due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost Marion Kirby. Marion comes back from heaven's door to help Cosmo again, this time only with dog Mr. Atlas. Due to a strange behavior of Cosmo, the judge refuses to divorce them, so Mrs Parkhurst takes Mrs Topper on a trip to France, where she tries to arrange the final reasons for the divorce, with help of a gold-digging French baron, Marion takes Cosmo to the same hotel, to bring them back together and to get her own final ticket to heaven, but the whole thing turns out to be not too easy.
There Goes My Heart
Director
An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.
Весело мы живем
Director
Дворецкий Батлер Гросвенор обнаруживает за завтраком, что фамильное серебро украдено бродягой, которого хозяйка Эмили Килборн приняла под свое крыло в качестве шофера, в своей последней попытке реформы пригреть и обласкать опустившихся бродяг, создавая этим много напряжения среди остальных членов семьи. Обиженная Эмили клянется больше не принимать участия в облагораживании «павших на дно» к вящей радости своего мужа и взрослых детей, однако позже в их дверь стучится очередной «бродяга» Уэйд Ролинс, который на самом деле является писателем. У него сломался автомобиль и он постучался, что бы позвонить. Его затрапезный вид ввел в заблуждение и дворецкого, и дочерей хозяйки Джерри и Марион и саму хозяйку.
Топпер
Director
Сумасбродная пара Джордж и Мэрион Керби гибнут в автомобильной аварии. Они не сразу понимают, что застряли между небом и землей и стали призраками, а когда приходит это осознание они не представляют, что с этим делать. К счастью, им приходит спасительная мысль начать творить добро,....
Mind Your Own Business
Director
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts. When Orville's editor, Crane, orders him to spice up his column, Orville's wife Melba writes a gossip column using animals as metaphors for people. Crane loves Melba's article and gives Orville a raise, and the column becomes a hit.
Pennies from Heaven
Director
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Early to Bed
Director
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
Coronado
Director
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
Here Comes Cookie
Director
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
Redheads on Parade
Director
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.
It's a Gift
Director
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
Many Happy Returns
Director
Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the usual Gracie Allen logic---while distracted Papa is trying to get younger daughter, beauty contest winner Florence, married before she can head to Hollywood and get into the movies.
Melody in Spring
Director
It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.
Алиса в стране чудес
Director
Фантастическая причудливая сказка Льюиса Кэрролла о маленькой девочке Алисе, которая провалилась в кроличью нору и попала в Страну Чудес, вот уже почти сто лет остается одной из самых любимых сказок для детей, а также для их родителей. В кроличьей норе Алиса открыла странный мир, населенный необыкновенными существами. Она попала в стремительный водоворот волшебного приключения!
Mama Loves Papa
Director
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
A Lady's Profession
Director
A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.
Если бы у меня был миллион
Director
Умирающий миллионер, окруженный толпой жадных наследников, придумывает способ употребить свои деньги с пользой: раздать случайным людям, выбранным наугад из телефонной книги. Однако не каждому из «счастливчиков», среди которых затюканный женой продавец, проститутка, мошенник, пара бывших цирковых артистов, приговорённый к смерти, клерк, легкомысленный вояка и пожилая дама, деньги пойдут впрок.
Лошадиные перья
Director
Профессора Квинси Эдамса Уэгстаффа назначают президентом Колледжа Хаксли, который не выиграл ни одного футбольного матча со времени его основания в 1888 году. Следуя совету своего сына, Уэгстафф пытается завербовать парочку профессиональных игроков, но из-за путаницы в панибратском разговоре, по ошибке приглашает в команду собачьего живодера и бутлегера. Как бы то ни было, Уэгстафф поручает им похитить лучших игроков из команды своих старых противников из Колледжа Дарвина, но, к сожалению, у них ничего не выходит.
The Miracle Man
Director
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of funds for a supposed chapel. But when a real healing takes place, a change comes over the gang.
Sooky
Writer
Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The Boone Boys, a boys' club that costs thirty dollars to join and has uniforms that Sooky admires, refuses to admit him because he is poor. Sooky and Skippy form their own club called the Beagle Boys.
Touchdown!
Director
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.
Обезьяньи проделки
Director
Безбилетные пассажиры, прячась на борту лайнера плывущего в Америку и отчаянно пытаясь избежать встречи с персоналом корабля, оказываются втянутыми в работу хулиганами для двух гангстеров. После приезда в штаты один из гангстеров захватывает дочь другого и теперь все зависит от наших невезучих героев.
Skippy
Writer
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
Finn and Hattie
Director
The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who wears the pants in the family - it's their daughter Mildred. Her parents often proclaim she is a genius - but she is just smarter than them, which wouldn't be too hard! On the train, Finn meets shyster Harry who sizes Finn up as a sucker and quickly wires his partner Bessie, aka "The Princess" to make Finn's acquaintance and take him for everything he has.
Along Came Youth
Director
Set in London, American Larry Brooks, former millionaire and now broke, pursues lovely Elinor Farrington who, encouraged by her Aunt to marry wealth, falls for him not knowing that he is poor. Trying to regain his status in the racing world since the loss of his champion racehorse and the efforts of a gangster left him penniless, he and his trainer live from hand to mouth as he tries desperately to woo the girl, despite her aunt's suspicions. But Elinor soon finds herself falling for him until he admits to all that he is not what he appears to be.
The Air Circus
Scenario Writer
Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.
Long Hose
Animation
Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the bone-breaking falls that slapstick called for and the ability to make himself up as an old coot, which gave him a nice character and made the pratfalls more impressive. In this one he manages to get himself tangled up coming down the pole at the fire station -- very amusing.
Grandpa's Girl
Title Illustration
A 1924 Jack Duffy comedy. Jean manages to be expelled from college to be able to go to Europe with her grandfather. When he learns about that, grandpa disinherits Jean and starts looking for a grandson to replace her. Jean dresses as a boy, Oswald. Grandpa then tries to marry Oswald and test his new grandson’s strength.
Getting Gertie's Goat
Title Illustration
Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.
A Perfect 36
Title Illustration
In order to escape from the police after a small car accident, Bobby dresses as a girl and a sailor in a boat ride.
Fool Proof
Title Illustration
A 1924 Neal Burns comedy. To show his son that there’s more to life than work, a rich man pretends he is getting married to a chorus girl.