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About Norman Krasna
Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies which centred on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943's Princess O'Rourke, a film he also directed.
Krasna was born in Queens, New York City. He attended Columbia University and St John's University School of Law, working at Macy's Department Store during the day. He wanted to get into journalism and talked his way into a job as a copy boy for the Sunday feature department of the New York World in 1928. He quit law school, worked his way up to being a drama critic, at first for The World then the New York Evening Graphic and Exhibitors Herald World. He was offered a job with Hubert Voight in the publicity department of Warner Bros and moved to Hollywood.
From 1940 to 1950 Krasna was married to Ruth Frazee, with whom he had two children.[8] He married Al Jolson's widow Erle in 1951,[9] moving into the Palm Springs, California, home of Erle and Jolson.[10] They remained married until Krasna's death in 1984. He had six children.
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Norman Krasna's Timeline
| 1909 |
November 7, 1909
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New York, Queens, New York, United States
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| 1984 |
November 1, 1984
Age 74
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calfornia, United States
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