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Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) 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.
Humorist, playwright and screenwriter Norman Krasna went to great lengths planning for a career in law. He attended New York University, Columbia University and St. John's University law school but then abruptly changed his plans and started work as a copy boy at a New York newspaper.
Nov 7, 1984 · Norman Krasna, a playwright and an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, died Nov. 1 of a heart attack in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 74 years old....
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 centered on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood.
Erle Jolson Krasna, an occasional actress who was the influential widow of both singer Al Jolson and Oscar-winning screenwriter and producer Norman Krasna, has died.
Norman Krasna - Writer. Writer and Producer. Nationality: American. Born: Queens, New York City, 7 November 1909. Education: Attended Columbia University and St. John's University Law School, New York, 1928. Military Service: 1943–45—served with the United States Army Air Force motion-picture unit.
When Hollywood producers of the 1940s demanded "sophisticated Broadway comedy," they usually meant Norman Krasna. A New York film and drama critic whose screenwriting career paralleled his other as playwright, Krasna was well placed in the early 1930s to merchandise Broadway's less louche plots to a film industry flirting with sophistication.
