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Norman Rae Taurog was an American film director and screenwriter. From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films. At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for Skippy , becoming the youngest person to win the award for eight and a half decades until Damien Chazelle won for La La Land in 2017.
Archetypal "contract," studio director who entered films as an actor, began making comedy shorts, and moved up to features in 1929. Working most often for MGM and Paramount, Taurog specialized in comedies and other light entertainments, though he made several dramas as well, such as "The...
Michael Barson. Norman Taurog - Film Director, Martin & Lewis: Taurog subsequently ended his long stay at MGM, and his first film after leaving the studio was the pleasant Warner Brothers comedy Room for One More (1952), with Cary Grant and Betsy Drake (who were married in real life) as the adoptive parents of several underprivileged orphans.
More background on Director Norman Taurog --- Thanks to EIN reader Frank Locke . Child actor Jackie Cooper was Norman Taurog's nephew, which was correctly noted in the "Skippy" photo. Jackie Cooper wrote his autobiography in the 1970s. It was titled "Please Don't Shoot My Dog" and it related the tale of what Taurog did to get his nephew to cry.
Blue Hawaii: Directed by Norman Taurog. With Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Angela Lansbury, Nancy Walters. After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) 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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Norman Taurog. Director, Writer, Actor. Born February 23, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A successful child actor (on stage from 1907) and rather less successful romantic lead, baby-faced Norman Taurog found being behind the camera a more rewarding experience. Before becoming a director, he paid his dues as a prop man and editor.
Norman Taurog (1899 - 1981) fue un director y guionista de Estados Unidos conocido por Forja de hombres, Si yo tuviera un millón, Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer, Amor en Hawai, La ciudad de los muchachos, El joven Edison, Chicas!
