Norman Krasna
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Norman Krasna
Krasna in later life
Born	November 7, 1909(1909-11-07) Queens, New York, USA
Died	November 1, 1984 (aged 74) Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active	1932-1964
Awards won Academy Awards Best Original Screenplay 1943 Princess O'Rourke

Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an Academy Award winning American screenwriter, playwright, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies, melodrama, and early films noir. 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. Later in his career, he also wrote plays, including Time for Elizabeth (1948) cowritten with Groucho Marx, and the popular Kind Sir which he adapted into the movie Indiscreet (1958). He married Al Jolson's widow Erle in 1951, and they remained married until Krasna's death.

Selected filmography

• Bombshell (1933, screenplay)
• The Richest Girl in the World (1934, screenplay and story)
• Hands Across the Table (1935, screenplay)
• Four Hours to Kill! (1935, screenplay)
• Wife vs. Secretary (1936, screenplay)
• Fury (1936, story)
• The King and the Chorus Girl (1937, co-writer with Groucho Marx)
• Bachelor Mother (1939, screenplay)
• The Flame of New Orleans (1941, screenplay)
• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941, screenplay)
• The Devil and Miss Jones (1941, screenplay and producer)
• Princess O'Rourke (1943, screenplay and director)
• The Big Hangover (1950, screenplay, director, and producer)
• The Blue Veil (1951, producer)
• Clash by Night (1952, producer)
• White Christmas (1954, screenplay)
• The Ambassador's Daughter (1956, screenplay, director, and producer)
• Indiscreet (1958, screenplay and play)
• Let's Make Love (1960, screenplay)
• My Geisha (1962, screenplay)
• Sunday in New York (1963, screenplay and play)

Academy Awards

Won

• Best Original Screenplay (Princess O'Rourke, 1943)

Nominated

• Best Original Story (The Richest Girl in the World, 1934)
• Best Original Story (Fury, 1936)
• Best Original Screenplay (The Devil and Miss Jones, 1941)

External links

• Norman Krasna at the Internet Movie Database
• Norman Krasna at Internet Broadway Database

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