Norman Taurog

Norman Taurog

February 23, 1899 · 127 years old

Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter. Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films, and directed Elvis Presley in nine films, more movies than any other director. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Director for the film Ski…

Known For

16 titles
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Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii

1961 · 1h 42m · Movie

After arriving back in Hawaii from the Army, Chad Gates 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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Boys Town

Boys Town

1938 · 1h 36m · Movie

When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.

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Room for One More

Room for One More

1952 · 1h 38m · Movie

New Jersey couple Anna and Poppy Rose become foster parents to several kids born into less fortunate circumstances, including a desperately unhappy 13-year-old girl and a physically handicapped boy with a penchant for getting into...

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Speedway

Speedway

1968 · 1h 34m · Movie

Poor bookkeeping saddles stock-car driver Steve Grayson with a huge bill for back taxes which hampers his ability to continue racing competitively.

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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

1965 · 1h 28m · Movie

A skirt-chasing spy and a millionaire bachelor must foil mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot's plot to use his army of bikini-clad robots to seduce wealthy men into signing over their assets.

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The Caddy

The Caddy

1953 · 1h 35m · Movie

Although gifted golfer Harvey Miller is too nervous to golf in public tournaments, he acts as coach and caddy for friend Joe Anthony.

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Spinout

Spinout

1966 · 1h 33m · Movie

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938 · 1h 31m · Movie

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

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If I Had a Million

If I Had a Million

1932 · 1h 28m · Movie

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

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10
Tickle Me

Tickle Me

1965 · 1h 30m · Movie

A singing rodeo rider gets hired at an expensive all-female dude ranch/beauty spa and falls for a pretty fitness trainer who's under constant threat from a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold that's hidden in a gho...

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11
Live a Little, Love a Little

Live a Little, Love a Little

1968 · 1h 30m · Movie

Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

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Double Trouble

Double Trouble

1967 · 1h 32m · Movie

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

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13
Living It Up

Living It Up

1954 · 1h 35m · Movie

An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.

6.5
14
Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars

1943 · 1h 44m · Movie

Small-town Indiana girl Lily Mars dreams to be a stage actress. She begs visiting Broadway producer John Thornway for a role but he dismisses her as an amateur. She follows him to New York and worms her way into his show, and his ...

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The Hoodlum Saint

The Hoodlum Saint

1946 · 1h 31m · Movie

A former reporter returns home after serving in the Army during World War I and discovers that finding work is more difficult than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerf...

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16
Mad About Music

Mad About Music

1938 · 1h 40m · Movie

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about, and writes herself letters, from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things...

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