About Norman Krasna
Norman Krasna was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director who penned screwball comedies centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna 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, which he also directed. Krasna wrote a number of successful Broadway plays, including Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary. Krasna eventually quit law school, and worked his way up to being a drama critic, at first for The World then the New York Evening Graphic and Exhibitors Herald World. In April 1932 Krasna was assigned to his first film to work on as a screenwriter, Hollywood Speaks (1932), directed by Eddie Buzzell with Jo Swerling also credited as a writer. In August 1936 Paramount announced that Krasna would make his directorial debut in a movie he wrote for George Raft, Wonderful, co-starring Helen Burgess.
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