Biography
Norman Rae Taurog was an American film director and screenwriter. From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films. At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for Skippy (1931), becoming the youngest person to win the award for eight and a half decades. He was later nominated for Best Director for the film Boys Town (1938). He directed some of the best-known actors of the twentieth century, including his nephew Jackie Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley and Vincent Price. Taurog directed six Martin and Lewis films, and nine Elvis Presley films, more than any other director.
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Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1931
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Academy Award — Best Director · 1939 · nominated
- Academy Award — Best Director · nominated
Filmography40 titles
Big City
This Is Elvis
That's Entertainment, Part II
Broadway Melody of 1940
Boys Town
Pardners
The Stooge
The Bride Goes Wild
You're Never Too Young
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
If I Had a Million
G.I. Blues
Living It Up
Room for One More
Jumping Jacks
Don't Give Up the Ship
Bundle of Joy
The Caddy
Presenting Lily Mars
Men of Boys Town
A Yank at Eton
Tickle Me
Blue Hawaii
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
Speedway
Young Tom Edison
It Happened at the World's Fair
Words and Music
Live a Little, Love a Little
Spinout
Rich, Young and Pretty
Girl Crazy
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Onionhead
Sergeant Deadhead
Visit to a Small Planet
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Double Trouble
Palm Springs Weekend
Follow the Leader