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Norman Panama
Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norman Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norman Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former school friend, Melvin Frank, to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope's radio program and for Groucho Marx. The most famous films Panama directed were Li'l Abner (1959), the Danny Kaye film The Court Jester (1956), and Bob Hope's How to Commit Marriage (1969). He wrote Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Road to Utopia (1946), and The Court Jester, among other movies. He won an Edgar Award for A Talent for Murder (1981), a play he co-wrote with Jerome Chodorov. Panama continued to write and direct through the 1980s. He died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California from complications due to Parkinson's disease. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Panama, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
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2007
Are We Done Yet?
Movie Original Film Writer
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1983
A Talent for Murder
Movie Writer
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1978
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
Movie Writer
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1977
Barnaby and Me
Movie Director
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1976
I Will, I Will...For Now
Movie Screenplay
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1973
Coffee, Tea or Me?
Movie Teleplay
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1969
How to Commit Marriage
Movie Director
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1969
The Maltese Bippy
Movie Director
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1966
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Movie Screenplay
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1965
Strange Bedfellows
Movie Producer
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1962
The Road to Hong Kong
Movie Director
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1960
The Facts of Life
Movie Producer
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1959
Li'l Abner
Movie Producer
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1959
The Jayhawkers!
Movie Producer
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1959
The Trap
Movie Director
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1956
That Certain Feeling
Movie Director
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1955
The Court Jester
Movie Screenplay
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1954
White Christmas
Movie Writer
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1954
Knock on Wood
Movie Director
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1953
Above and Beyond
Movie Director
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1951
Callaway Went Thataway
Movie Writer
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1951
Strictly Dishonorable
Movie Director
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1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
Movie Director
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1948
The Return of October
Movie Writer
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1948
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Movie Screenplay
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1947
It Had to Be You
Movie Screenplay
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1946
Monsieur Beaucaire
Movie Screenplay
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1946
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Movie Writer
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1946
Road to Utopia
Movie Screenplay
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1945
Duffy's Tavern
Movie Screenplay
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1944
The Princess and the Pirate
Movie Screenplay
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1944
And the Angels Sing
Movie Screenplay
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1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie Screenplay
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1943
Happy Go Lucky
Movie Screenplay
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1942
My Favorite Blonde
Movie Story
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1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
Movie Screenplay
