Norman Taurog — Director (34)
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We're Not Dressing (1934)
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Norman Taurog actor: Bing Crosby / Carole Lombard …
other title: Música sobre las alas / 波光艷曲 …
Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend Edith, Uncle Hubert, and Princes Michael and Alexander make it to the same island but all prove to be useless in the art of survival. The sailor is the only one with the practical knowhow to survive but Doris and the others snub his leadership offer. That is until he starts a clam bake and wafts the fumes in their starving faces. The group gradually gives into his leadership, the only question now is if Doris will give into his charms.
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Newly Rich (1931)
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Norman Taurog actor: Mitzi Green / Edna May Oliver …
other title: Forbidden Adventure
Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy sissy. For publicity, the rival families go to London to meet a middle European boy King. The three kids decide they need to escape their stifling lives and run away to the docks and join a gang.
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You Can't Have Everything (1937)
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Norman Taurog actor: Alice Faye / Al Ritz …
other title: 你不能拥有一切 / No se puede tener todo …
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve...
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The Bell Hop (1921)
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Larry Semon / Norman Taurog actor: Larry Semon / Oliver Hardy …
other title: Zigoto Groom / Klamottenkiste- Larry Semon 1
A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.
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The Bride Goes Wild (1948)
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Norman Taurog actor: Van Johnson / June Allyson …
other title: Ángel sin alas / La mariée est folle …
McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his next book. Martha won a contest to illustrate the book and the first thing that happens is that Greg gets her soused. To keep her there to illustrate, John gets a juvenile delinquent named Danny to play his son and show how much pressure he is under. The ploy works at first, but Greg's heart was broken by Tillie, and Martha may be the girl who makes him forget all about her.
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Lucky Night (1939)
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Norman Taurog actor: Myrna Loy / Robert Taylor …
Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The two of them embark on a wild night of gambling and winning, where everything they touch turns to gold. Pretty soon they're in love and, to the horror of Cora's father, married.
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Follow the Leader (1930)
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Norman Taurog actor: Ed Wynn / Ginger Rogers …
other title: Manhattan Mary
A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her opportunity, as the understudy, to play the role and become a star herself.
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The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
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Norman Taurog actor: Kathryn Grayson / Mario Lanza …
other title: Der Fischer von Louisiana / Le Chant de la Louisiane …
Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans to teach him to sing opera but comes to regret this rash decision when the singers fall in love.