Norman Krasna

Norman Krasna
Born	November 7, 1909(1909-11-07) Queens, New York, USA
Died	November 1, 1984(1984-11-01) (aged 74) Los Angeles, California, USA
Years active	1932–1964
Spouse	Ruth Frazee (1940–1950) Erle Chennault Galbraith (1951–1984)

Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an 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)
• Meet the Baron (1933, co-author of screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz)
• 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)
• Bride by Mistake (1944, original story, remake of The Richest Girl in the World)
• The Big Hangover (1950, screenplay, director, and producer)
• Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
• The Blue Veil (1951, producer)
• Clash by Night (1952, producer)
• The Lusty Men (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)

Theatre Credits

• Louder, Please (1932)
• Small Miracle (1935)
• The Man with Blond Hair (1941)
• Dear Ruth (1945)
• John Loves Mary (1947)
• Time for Elizabeth (1949) - written with Groucho Marx
• Kind Sir (1954)
• Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (1958)
• Sunday in New York (1962)
• Love in E-Flat (1967)
• Watch the Birdie! (1969)
• Bunny (1970)
• We Interrupt This Program (1975)

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