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Norman Panama is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 21 april 1914 at Chicago (USA)
Norman Panama (21 avril 1914 à Chicago - 13 janvier 2003 à Los Angeles) est un scénariste, réalisateur et producteur américain.
Ses films les plus célèbres sont Le Bouffon du roi (The Court Jester, 1962) de Danny Kaye et How to commit Marriage (1969) de Bob Hope. Il a reçu un prix Edgar-Allan-Poe pour A Talent for Murder (1981), coécrit avec Jerome Chodorov .
Il est mort en 2003 à la suite de complications de la maladie de Parkinson.
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Norman Panama
Nationality USA
Birth 21 april 1914 at Chicago (USA)
Death 13 january 2003 (at 88 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 21 april 1914 at Chicago (USA)
Death 13 january 2003 (at 88 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Biography
Norman Panama a collaboré avec un ancien ami d'école, Melvin Frank, pour l'écriture de scénarios, pendant près de 30 ans. Il a également écrit de nombreux gags pour des comédiens tels que Bob Hope ou Groucho Marx.Ses films les plus célèbres sont Le Bouffon du roi (The Court Jester, 1962) de Danny Kaye et How to commit Marriage (1969) de Bob Hope. Il a reçu un prix Edgar-Allan-Poe pour A Talent for Murder (1981), coécrit avec Jerome Chodorov .
Il est mort en 2003 à la suite de complications de la maladie de Parkinson.
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Barnaby and Me (1977)
, 1h30Directed by Malcolm Goodwin, Norman Panama
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Sid Caesar, Katrina Bowden, Jon Gries, Juliet Mills, Malcolm Goodwin, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Rating54%
I Will, I Will...For Now (1976)
, 1h47Directed by Norman Panama
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal, Robert Alda, Warren Berlinger
Rating48%
The marriage of Les and Katie Bingham is in big trouble. They've already split up once, and now they're giving it one more try, but the bedroom of their New York apartment is not a happy place. Les finds her too cold. Katie finds him too fast.
How to Commit Marriage (1969)
, 1h35Directed by Norman Panama
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Jane Wyman, Leslie Nielsen, Paul Stewart, Maureen Arthur
Rating53%
Nancy, the 19-year-old daughter of Frank and Elaine Benson (Bob Hope and Jane Wyman), wants to marry David (Tim Matheson), the 20-year-old son of Oliver Poe (Jackie Gleason). What the bride doesn't know is that her parents are about to get a divorce.
The Maltese Bippy (1969)
, 1h28Directed by Norman Panama
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Comedy horror films
Actors Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Carol Lynley, Pamela Rodgers, Julie Newmar, Robert Reed
Rating44%
Not With My Wife, You Don't (1966)
, 1h59Directed by Norman Panama
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films
Actors Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Richard Eastham, Carroll O'Connor, Eddie Ryder
Rating57%
During the Korean War, Italian nurse Lieutenant Julietta Perodi (Virna Lisi), who has a passion of everything in "twos", falls in love with two United States Air Force pilots, Col. Tom Ferris (Tony Curtis) and Col. "Tank" Martin (George C. Scott). "Julie" marries Ferris after he convinces her that his friend, "Tank" has been killed in an aircraft crash. She soon discovers that Martin is alive, but remains happily married to Ferris until, Martin, her former love, re-enters their lives 14 years later.
The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
, 1h31Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about films, Spy films, Films about music and musicians, Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins, Robert Morley, Walter Gotell, Dorothy Lamour
Rating60%
The story is told in flashback as Diane (Joan Collins) explains to American Intelligence how transmissions from passengers picked up from a missile to the moon are by Americans rather than Russians.
The Facts of Life (1960)
, 1h43Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Ruth Hussey, Don DeFore, Louis Nye, Philip Ober
Rating62%
As the yearly vacation of six neighbors, the Gilberts, Masons, and Weavers, approaches, Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) and Larry Gilbert (Bob Hope) find themselves frustrated with the routine. When both their spouses (Ruth Hussey and Don DeFore) are kept away from the vacation, Kitty and Larry find themselves alone in Acapulco, with the Masons (Philip Ober and Marianne Stewart) bedridden with illness. Forced together, Kitty and Larry fall in love. Once the vacation is over, however, they have difficulties in either abandoning or continuing their romance.
The Trap (1959)
, 1h24Directed by Norman Panama
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman, Lorne Greene, Carl Benton Reid
Rating65%
Ralph Anderson returns to his remote California hometown for the first time in many years. Now a lawyer, he has been estranged from his father, Lloyd, and brother, Tippy, ever since being sent to reform school as a youth for stealing a car, taking the blame for his brother's crime.
That Certain Feeling (1956)
, 1h43Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bob Hope, Eva Marie Saint, George Sanders, David Lewis, Pearl Bailey, Jerry Mathers
Rating63%
A beautiful, sophisticated New York woman who goes by the name Dunreath Henry seems to have it all. She is not only the private secretary to the wealthy and popular cartoonist Larry Larkin, she is also his fiancee.
The Court Jester (1955)
, 1h41Directed by Norman Panama, Bernard McEveety, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, Cecil Parker, Mildred Natwick
Rating77%
Set in medieval England, the plot concerns the struggle to restore to the throne the rightful heir, a baby with a distinguishing birthmark, the purple pimpernel on his posterior. Danny Kaye plays Hubert Hawkins, an ex-carnival entertainer who becomes minstrel to the Black Fox, a Robin Hood-type character who leads a band of rebels in the forest in support of the true infant-king.
Knock On Wood (1954)
, 1h43Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin, Abner Biberman
Rating66%
Jerry Morgan (Kaye) is a ventriloquist who is having trouble with love: just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his dummy turns jealous and spoils everything. Jerry's manager Marty threatens to quit unless Jerry sees a psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom (Zetterling), who tries to discover the source of his problem. The two of them eventually fall in love.
Above and Beyond (1953)
, 2h2Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, Larry Keating, Stephen Dunne, James Whitmore, Larry Gates
Rating68%
Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (Robert Taylor) is assigned to a dangerous mission in testing a new bomber, the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The perilous assignment has caused his wife Lucy (Eleanor Parker) to worry for his life and whether their marriage can survive the constant separations.
Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
, 1h26Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on plays
Actors Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Beverly Garland, Millard Mitchell, Gale Robbins, Maria Palmer
Rating57%
In New York in the 1920s, amorous opera star Augustino "Gus" Caraffa (Ezio Pinza) crosses paths with Isabelle Perry (Janet Leigh), a naive music student from Mississippi who is his biggest fan. When a news photographer catches them in a kiss, it is proposed that they get married in name only to avoid a scandal. Isabelle, who is in love with Gus, agrees to the charade, hoping that he will eventually fall in love with her.
Callaway Went Thataway (1951)
, 1h21Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Fred MacMurray, Jesse White, Dorothy McGuire, Howard Keel, Fay Roope, Natalie Schafer
Rating65%
Mike Frye (MacMurray) and Deborah Patterson (McGuire), co-owners of an advertising firm, have a big hit when they recycle some old Western films starring "Smoky" Callaway (Keel) for a new television audience. Tom Lorrison (Fay Roope), the show's sponsor, is eager to make more films, but nobody has seen Smoky in ten years. Under intense pressure to produce the star, Frye hires Smoky's agent, Georgie Markham (Jesse White), to go look for him.
The Reformer and the Redhead (1950)
, 1h30Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors June Allyson, Dick Powell, David Wayne, Cecil Kellaway, Ray Collins, Robert Keith
Rating61%