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Norman Taurog Filmography
Complete filmography of Norman Taurog: 33 films in the TMDB catalog, sorted by year.
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Title↕ | Year↕ | Genres↕ | TMDB Rating↕ | Votes↕ | Language↕ | Overview↕ |
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| Speedway | 1,968 | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.8 | 40 | English | A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account. |
| Live a Little, Love a Little | 1,968 | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.5 | 28 | English | 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. |
| Double Trouble | 1,967 | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 4.9 | 35 | English | When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer. |
| Spinout | 1,966 | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.5 | 39 | English | Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race. |
| Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine | 1,965 | Comedy, Science Fiction | 5.2 | 58 | English | In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and charm them into signing over their assets. Secret agent Craig Gamble (Frankie Avalon) and millionaire Todd Armstrong set out to foil his fiendish plot. |
| Tickle Me | 1,965 | Comedy, Music, Romance, Western | 5.9 | 31 | English | A singing rodeo rider hires on at an expensive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for a pretty fitness trainer who is constantly threatened by a gang who wants her late grandfather's cache of gold hidden in a ghost town. |
| It Happened at the World's Fair | 1,963 | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.7 | 51 | English | Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle and, while Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse. |
| Palm Springs Weekend | 1,963 | Comedy, Romance | 4.8 | 18 | English | Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief. Jim's bumbling roommate, Biff, tries to get Amanda, a tomboyish girl's attention with a so-called love gadget. Meanwhile, Gayle Lewis is a high school senior posing as a wealthy college girl who is pursued by Eric Dean, a wealthy and spoiled college prepie, while Gayle has eyes for a cowboy from Texas, named Stretch. Also Jim and Biff's basketball coach, Campbell, tries to romance Naomi, the owner of the motel where all of the gang is staying at, which is interfered by Naomi's young, trouble-making, brat son who's dubbed, Boom-Boom. |
| Girls! Girls! Girls! | 1,962 | Comedy, Music, Romance | 5.3 | 66 | English | When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel. |
| Blue Hawaii | 1,961 | Music, Comedy, Romance | 5.9 | 144 | English | Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend. |
| G.I. Blues | 1,960 | Music, Comedy, Romance | 6.5 | 75 | English | Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a venture, but a chance to raise the cash comes his way through a friendly wager. Local dancer Lili (Juliet Prowse) is a notorious ice queen, and Tulsa bets everything he has that a friend of his can earn her affections. But, when that friend is dispatched to Alaska, it's up to Tulsa to melt Lili's heart. |
| Visit to a Small Planet | 1,960 | Comedy, Science Fiction, Family | 5.1 | 30 | English | The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in UFOs and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand them, Kreton makes a mess out of it, generating a lot of comic situations. |
| Don't Give Up the Ship | 1,959 | Comedy | 6.3 | 22 | English | The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return. |
| The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown | 1,957 | Comedy, Crime | 6 | 10 | English | When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone thinks it's a publicity stunt. It's not. |
| Pardners | 1,956 | Comedy, Western | 6.6 | 61 | English | Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with Slim Moseley Jr.,the son of his father's former partner. Wade overcomes Slim's initial reluctance to accept him by using his fortune to buy a prize cow and new car to help Slim in his job as foreman on the Kingsley family ranch, currently under siege by a gang of outlaws called "masked raiders." Wade generously tries to pay off the ranch's mortgage with $15,000 of his own money, but unfortunately neither "pardner" realizes that respected banker Dan Hollis, the son of their fathers' murderer, is the leader of the gang. |
| Bundle of Joy | 1,956 | Comedy, Music, Romance | 6.2 | 17 | English | Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss'... |
| You're Never Too Young | 1,955 | Comedy | 6.6 | 46 | English | When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child - with humorous consequences. |
| Living It Up | 1,954 | Comedy, Music | 6.4 | 33 | English | Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small New Mexico town of Desert Hole. One day, he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic proving ground. His doctor and best friend, Steve Harris, diagnoses him with radiation poisoning and gives Homer three weeks to live. A big city reporter hears of Homer's plight and convinces her editor to provide an all-expenses paid trip to New York. |
| The Caddy | 1,953 | Comedy, Music | 6.4 | 57 | English | Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother. |
| Room for One More | 1,952 | Comedy, Family | 6.5 | 50 | English | Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. |
| Jumping Jacks | 1,952 | Comedy | 6.4 | 29 | English | Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays a clownish parody of a soldier. When Chick organises a soldier show at Fort Benning, he realizes he needs his former partner's help—so, to get onto the base, Hap impersonates a hapless real soldier, but circumstances force them to prolong the masquerade, creating an increasingly tangled Army-sized SNAFU. |
| The Stooge | 1,951 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 | 33 | English | Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner. |
| The Toast of New Orleans | 1,950 | Drama, Music, Romance | 4.9 | 11 | English | 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. |
| Words and Music | 1,948 | Drama, Music | 5.7 | 19 | English | Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood. We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers' collaboration - elaborately staged numbers from their plays, characters' visits to night clubs, and impromptu performances at parties. We also see Larry's scattered approach to life, his failed love with Peggy McNeil, his unhappiness, and Richard's successful wooing of Dorothy Feiner. |
| The Beginning or the End | 1,947 | Drama, Documentary, History, War | 6.1 | 11 | English | The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama. |
| Girl Crazy | 1,943 | Comedy, Romance, Music | 5.4 | 22 | English | Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out Wes... |
| Presenting Lily Mars | 1,943 | Music, Romance | 6.3 | 11 | English | Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant. |
| Men of Boys Town | 1,941 | Drama | 6.2 | 13 | English | Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school. |
| Broadway Melody of 1940 | 1,940 | Music, Romance, Comedy | 6.7 | 38 | English | Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner. |
| Boys Town | 1,938 | Drama | 6.8 | 101 | English | Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being treated as underage criminals, the boys are shepherded into making themselves better people. But hard-nosed petty thief and pool shark Whitey Marsh, the impulsive and violent younger brother of an imprisoned murderer, might be too much for the good father's tough-love system. |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | 1,938 | Family, Adventure | 6.5 | 51 | English | 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. |
| The Big Broadcast of 1936 | 1,935 | Music | 5.5 | 11 | English | Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions of George and Gracie, who've just invented a television device that can pick up and transmit any signal, any time, anywhere. |
| Skippy | 1,931 | Drama, Family, Comedy | 6.1 | 24 | English | 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. |
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