Norman Taurog
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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.
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Blue Hawaii
Boys Town
G.I. Blues
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
The Caddy
Pardners
It Happened at the World's Fair
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Room for One More
Spinout
If I Had a Million
You're Never Too Young
Speedway
Living It Up
Broadway Melody of 1940
Double Trouble
The Stooge
This Is Elvis
Tickle Me
Visit to a Small Planet
Jumping Jacks
Live a Little, Love a Little
Words and Music
Girl Crazy
Skippy
Don't Give Up the Ship
Bundle of Joy
Palm Springs Weekend
Men of Boys Town
The Sawmill
Presenting Lily Mars
The Toast of New Orleans
The Beginning or the End
Young Tom Edison
The Show
The Big Broadcast of 1936
We're Not Dressing
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown
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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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