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Biography. Archetypal "contract," studio director who entered films as an actor, began making comedy shorts, and moved up to features in 1929. 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 ...
Michael Barson. Norman Taurog - Film Director, Martin & Lewis: Taurog subsequently ended his long stay at MGM, and his first film after leaving the studio was the pleasant Warner Brothers comedy Room for One More (1952), with Cary Grant and Betsy Drake (who were married in real life) as the adoptive parents of several underprivileged orphans.
Norman Taurog was born on February 23, 1899 in Chicago, Illinois, to Arthur Jack Taurog and Anita Taurog (née Goldsmith). He was exposed to the show business as a young child and became a child performer on the stage at an early age. By the time he was 13 he had made his film debut in the short film ‘Tangled Relations.’.
The elusive Norman Taurog Who was Norman Taurog? It is a legitimate question because he remains one of the most elusive characters in Elvis Presley’s remarkable career. Even in Starmaker, the memoirs of Hal B. Wallis, for whom Taurog produced six Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies and three Presley flicks, he seems a bit player.
Chicago-born Norman Taurog was performing on stage from his early childhood, long before he began work as a child actor in movies. He entered films at age 14 with Thomas Ince's studios, and turned to directing comedy in 1919 with Larry Semon.
When I was four years old I went to the 1962 Seattle World's Fair -- the one where Elvis and Joan O'Brien were, according to the ads, seen "swinging higher than the Space Needle" in "It Happened at the World's Fair" (Norman Taurog, 1963).
Film: East side of the 1600 block of Vine Street. Director Born Feb. 23, 1899 in Chicago, Ill. Died April 7, 1981 in Eisenhower Medical Center, Calif. A cademy Award-winning director Norman Taurog built a film reputation on his seemingly effortless affinity for children and animals. Taurog won as Oscar in 1931 for directing "Skippy," which ...
