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	Norman Taurog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Norman Taurog, (February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an American film director born in Chicago, Illinois.
		Taurog made 42 more films, mostly shorts, up until 1931; in this time he developed his style, his forte was light comedy though he could also deal with drama and maintain complex narratives.
		Taurog was to direct three more films which could be said to match this description before the fourth chapter of his career, Mrs O'Malley and Mr Malone, 1950, Rich Young and Pretty, 1951 and Room for One More in 1952, starring Cary Grant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Norman_Taurog (1634 words)

	Norman Taurog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Working most often for MGM and Paramount, Taurog specialized in comedies and other light entertainments, though he made several dramas as well, such as THE BEGINNING OR THE END (1947), about the birth of the atomic bomb.
		By the mid-50s he was directing formula vehicles for box-office stars such as Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis and Elvis Presley -- whom Taurog directed in 9 movies, starting with G.I. His nephew is child actor-turned-TV director Jackie Cooper.
		Taurog directed Cooper in SKIPPY and SOOKY (both 1931).
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/taurog_n.htm (109 words)

	Norman Taurog
		Chicago-born Norman Taurog was performing on stage from his early childhood, long before he began work as a child actor in movies.
		Taurog was especially well liked by Elvis Presley (and, one presumes, his manager Colonel Tom Parker), and directed the former King of Rock 'N Roll in nine movies between 1960 and 1968, including Blue Hawaii, Spinout, and Live a Little, Love a Little.
		Never a noted stylist in either comedy or drama, Taurog knew how to stage a scene for the strongest audience reaction, whether that entailed tears or laughter, and also how to do so quickly and economically, especially with child stars, neophyte performers, and non-actors.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P113709 (181 words)

	Classic Hollywood Directors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Taurog made musicals from the 1930's, with the early Bing Crosby, through the 1940's, with Mickey Rooney, through the 1960's, with Elvis Presley.
		Taurog's musicals tend to have a central male character.
		The film follows Taurog's paradigm, with Lanza playing a poor truck driver aspiring to make it in the world of opera.
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	Norman Taurog - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		During the filming, he threatened to shoot Cooper's dog if the child actor could not cry for the scene, according to Cooper's 1981 autobiography Please Don't Shoot My Dog.
		Taurog won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Director for the film and still holds the record as the youngest director to win that award.
		In the 1950s, Taurog concentrated on musical comedies, working with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Norman_Taurog (704 words)

	Film Freak Central - Jerry on DVD: "The Legendary Jerry" Collection
		Paired with the insincere sincerity of obnoxious Dean Martin and framed by the sincerely mediocre Norman Taurog, Lewis is the only aesthetic thing going on in the picture--you find yourself wondering why he didn't dissolve the useless partnership with Martin sooner than he did.
		It would take a great ironic talent (like subsequent Lewis collaborator Frank Tashlin) to read something into this mess, but Taurog's direction is as ironic as a religious pamphlet and as eye-catching as a funeral procession.
		Taurog's uptightness seals the doom of Lewis' image, ensuring that we laugh at him but resist the pull of his unknowing nonconformity.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/jerrylewiscollection.htm (4492 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - Treat Me Like A Fool
		Yeah, sure JAILHOUSE ROCK might occasionally come into the conversation when your grandparents are talking about music their parents liked, but other then that it’s like Elvis movies don’t even exist.
		Not so in Elvis’s case, instead the King of Rock would work with master hack Norman Taurog on eight more films.
		Well since Elvis was such a big phenomenon at the time, GI BLUES, in spite of its knack for unwatchability, made millions of dollars or something ridiculous -and made every studio in the world clamber for more of that Elvis and Taurog magic.
	www.ifmagazine.com /feature.asp?article=846 (1867 words)

	Skippy (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		SKIPPY (Paramount, 1931), directed by Norman Taurog, which has nothing to do with a development of the peanut butter product bearing that name, but a story based on the then popular comic strip character as portrayed by Jackie Cooper in a performance that earned this 10-year-old child actor an Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.
		Mankiewicz) and Best Director (Taurog, who won the honor that year).
		The story opens in a small wholesome town where the camera sets focus on the Skinner household.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Broadway Melody of 1940
		The picture offers plenty of comedy (most of it plays somewhat flat), while vaudeville performers crop up from time to time, including a hazardous unicyclist, a demented operatic soprano, and a really impressive juggler.
		But the singin' and the dancin' are what sells the tickets, and veteran studio director Norman Taurog never interferes, utilizing long takes with simple, sweeping motions that follow the principals in head-to-toe framing.
		Like most Hollywood musicals from the Golden Age, Broadway Melody of 1940 wasn't about to win any awards for the acting or the screenwriting; thankfully, this entry is so entertaining that such elements become completely superfluous anyway.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/b/broadwaymelody40.q.shtml (399 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (Widescreen): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While it is far from the worst movie ever made, its spoof of 1960's "hipsterdom" (as filtered through the lens of a way-over-40 director), James Bond and Roger Corman movies makes it a strange bird indeed.
		Director Norman Taurog's decision to film this as if it were just another Jerry Lewis comedy makes a certain amount of sense when one considers that the humor in the script never rises to a higher level -- but it also makes the spoof elements of the film seem grafted on.
		Dwayne Hickman and Frankie Avalon are less inspired, but Susan Hart is a delight as the lead fembot.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005AUJZ (398 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Blue Hawaii -- Norman Taurog - DVD - Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Mono
		Barnes and Noble.com - Blue Hawaii -- Norman Taurog - DVD - Wide Screen / Dolby 5.1 / Mono
		Norman Taurog, Elvis Presley, Joan Blackman, Nancy Walters
		G.I. Blues - Norman Taurog, Elvis Presley, Juliet Prowse
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=97363714149&frm=0&itm=8 (413 words)

	LOYAL GRIGGS
		1952 The Stars Are Singing [Norman Taurog] c; 2uc; ph: Lionel Lindon
		[Norman Taurog] c; 2uc: Irmin Roberts; process ph: Farciot Edouart
		1964 Tickle Me [Norman Taurog] p/c; process ph: Farciot Edouart; spec pfx: Paul K.
	www.cinematographers.nl /GreatDoPh/griggs.htm (1334 words)

	Amazon.com: Girl Crazy (1943) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The stars are affectionately matched, and musical fans will enjoy the young June Allyson belting out a spunky "Treat Me Rough." Rooney's comedy routine, imitating various radio personalities (including boxing champ Joe Louis), is one of those topical bits that will almost certainly puzzle viewers today.
		The director is Norman Taurog, an MGM workhorse who would later helm many of Elvis Presley's desultory vehicles.
		Busby Berkeley staged the rave-up finale to "I Got Rhythm," but the most beguiling production number is "Bidin' My Time," sung by Garland and some cowpokes--a droll performance with surrealistic flourishes.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004TZRX?v=glance (2042 words)

	BOYS' TOWN - Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Good Norman Taurog Drama Classic 1938 -
		BOYS' TOWN - Spencer Tracy Mickey Rooney Good Norman Taurog Drama Classic 1938 -
		Main Characters: Father Edward Flanagan, Whitey Marsh, Dave Morris, Dan Farrow, The Judge, Joe Marsh, Tony Ponessa, and The Bishop
		Although Tracy won Best Actor, it is beyond a doubt Rooney who carries this movie.
	www.movies2go.net /review/BoysTown.html (135 words)

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	Barnes & Noble.com - The Stooge -- Norman Taurog - DVD - B&W / Pan & Scan
		Barnes and Noble.com - The Stooge -- Norman Taurog - DVD - B&W / Pan & Scan
		Norman Taurog, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Polly Bergen
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		Norman Taurog has directed the following movies, ordered with the most recent movie first.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Speedway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		So to pay his tax bill, Steve agrees to curtail his spending — and to hand over all of his race winnings to the government until he's in the clear, necessitating his winning The Big Race.
		Speedway, despite being yet another formula picture directed by nine-time Elvis director Norman Taurog, is notably better than most of the Elvis oeuvre.
		Warner's DVD release of Speedway offers an exceptionally clean and almost garishly bright anamorphic transfer (2.35:1).
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/speedway.q.shtml (267 words)

	Rappe questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Why would Norman Taurog, Oliver Hardy, and Larry Semon have been
		Hardy." Must have been during his short but embarrassing schizophrenic
		I have a couple of questions the group might be able to answer.
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	Peter
		RIDE THE WILD SURF - Columbia Studio Don Taylor
		A TIGER WALKS - Disney Studio Norman Tokar
		THREE GUNS FOR TEXAS - Universal Studio Earl Bellamy
	acting.freeservers.com /Peter.htm (191 words)

	CHARLES LANG Jr.
		1933 The Way to Love [Norman Taurog] bandw
		1933 L'amour guide [Norman Taurog and Jean Boyer] bandw; French version of 'The Way to Love'
		1961 Blue Hawaii [Norman Taurog] p/c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
	www.cinematographers.nl /GreatDoPh/lang.htm (1304 words)

	Target : Entertainment : VHS Movies : Directors : ( T ) : Taurog, Norman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		Hollywood Rhythm: The Paramount Musical Shorts 1929-1941, V. 1 - Radio Rhythms
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	Stock Maven® Classic Films Movies Director: Norman Taurog
		Stock Maven® Classic Films Movies Director: Norman Taurog
		Movies of Motion Pictures Films Director: Norman Taurog
		Starring: Mickey Rooney, Edmund Gwenn, Ian Hunter, Freddie Bartholomew, Marta Linden, Juanita Quigley, Alan Mowbray, Peter Lawford, Raymond Severn, rest of cast listed alphabetically: Billy Bevan, Harry Cording, Terry Kilburn, Aubrey Mather, Alan Napier, Minna Phillips, Tina Thayer
	www.stockmaven.com /films/NormanTaurog.htm (439 words)

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		UNITED ARTIST - PHIL KARLSON - WILLIAM FAY
		PARAMOUNT - NORMAN TAUROG - EDWARD ANHALT, ALLAN WEISS
		METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER - NORMAN TAUROG - SI ROSE, SEAMAN JACOBS
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