Search results for "Norman Taurog"
Speedway

Speedway

Speedway
IMDb: 5.5
94

A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Live a Little, Love a Little

Live a Little, Love a Little

Live a Little, Love a Little
IMDb: 5.7
89

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.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Double Trouble

Double Trouble

Double Trouble
IMDb: 5.1
91

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

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Spinout

Spinout

Spinout
IMDb: 5.8
93

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

Genre: Comedy, Music
Sergeant Deadhead

Sergeant Deadhead

Sergeant Deadhead
IMDb: 4.7
90

An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the astronaut, and the…

Genre: Comedy
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
IMDb: 5.1
88

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…

Palm Springs Weekend

Palm Springs Weekend

Palm Springs Weekend
IMDb: 5.9
100

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…

Genre: Comedy
It Happened at the World’s Fair

It Happened at the World’s Fair

It Happened at the World’s Fair
IMDb: 6
105

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Tickle Me

Tickle Me

Tickle Me
IMDb: 5.8
90

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music, Western
Girls! Girls! Girls!

Girls! Girls! Girls!

Girls! Girls! Girls!
IMDb: 5.6
99

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii
IMDb: 6.1
102

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.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Visit to a Small Planet

Visit to a Small Planet

Visit to a Small Planet
IMDb: 5.9
85

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,…

G.I. Blues

G.I. Blues

G.I. Blues
IMDb: 6.2
104

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Don’t Give Up the Ship

Don’t Give Up the Ship

Don’t Give Up the Ship
IMDb: 6.3
89

The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

Genre: Comedy
Onionhead

Onionhead

Onionhead
IMDb: 6
111

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

Genre: Comedy
Pardners

Pardners

Pardners
IMDb: 6.1
88

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…

Genre: Comedy, Western
Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy
IMDb: 6
98

Kitschy musical remake of “Bachelor Mother”. Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss’ son. After getting fired from her job,…

Genre: Comedy, Music
You’re Never Too Young

You’re Never Too Young

You’re Never Too Young
IMDb: 6.5
102

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.

Genre: Comedy
The Caddy

The Caddy

The Caddy
IMDb: 6.4
95

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Stooge

The Stooge

The Stooge
IMDb: 6.7
100

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…

Genre: Comedy
Room for One More

Room for One More

Room for One More
IMDb: 7.2
98

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…

Genre: Comedy, Family
Jumping Jacks

Jumping Jacks

Jumping Jacks
IMDb: 6.2
96

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…

Genre: Comedy
Rich, Young and Pretty

Rich, Young and Pretty

Rich, Young and Pretty
IMDb: 5.8
95

A rancher’s daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

Genre: Comedy, Music
The Toast of New Orleans

The Toast of New Orleans

The Toast of New Orleans
IMDb: 6
97

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…

Genre: Music
Please Believe Me

Please Believe Me

Please Believe Me
IMDb: 5.7
87

A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men aboard both plan on winning her hand…

Genre: Comedy
Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone

Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone

Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone
IMDb: 6.8
69

Harriet O’Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Words and Music

Words and Music

Words and Music
IMDb: 6.4
121

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…

Genre: Music
The Bride Goes Wild

The Bride Goes Wild

The Bride Goes Wild
IMDb: 6.2
98

McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and has not started his…

Genre: Comedy
The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End

The Beginning or the End
IMDb: 6.6
112

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

The Hoodlum Saint

The Hoodlum Saint

The Hoodlum Saint
IMDb: 6.1
91

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it’s much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one…

Genre: Music
Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars

Presenting Lily Mars
IMDb: 6.8
104

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Genre: Music
Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy

Girl Crazy
IMDb: 6.8
99

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 West where there’s…

Genre: Comedy, Music
A Yank at Eton

A Yank at Eton

A Yank at Eton
IMDb: 6.2
88

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Men of Boys Town

Men of Boys Town

Men of Boys Town
IMDb: 6.6
106

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

Genre: Uncategorized
Design for Scandal

Design for Scandal

Design for Scandal
IMDb: 6.2
85

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

Genre: Comedy
Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison

Young Tom Edison
IMDb: 6.8
86

Inventor Thomas Edison’s boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk…

Genre: Uncategorized
Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly
IMDb: 6.4
99

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on Broadway.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940

Broadway Melody of 1940
IMDb: 7.3
102

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music
Lucky Night

Lucky Night

Lucky Night
IMDb: 6.1
82

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The…

Genre: Comedy
Mad About Music

Mad About Music

Mad About Music
IMDb: 7.1
100

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…

Genre: Comedy, Music