Screenplay: Norman Krasna

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Norman Krasna. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Fury

1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · Spencer Tracy · Walter Abel · Bruce Cabot

Synopsis This is the story of an innocent man (Spencer Tracy) who escapes a lynch mob and then orchestrates his apparent murder at their hands to get revenge.

8.1

6K votes

8.1

6K votes

The Devil And Miss Jones

1941 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Sam Wood

Cast Jean Arthur · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn · Edmund Gwenn

Synopsis Tycoon John P. Merrick is startled to see an effigy of himself hanging on the front page of the New York Times, courtesy of union organizers at Neeley's Department Store, which Merrick didn't even know he owned. On a sudden...

6.9

199 votes

6.9

199 votes

Hands Across the Table

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Carole Lombard · Fred MacMurray · Ralph Bellamy · Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis Beautiful manicurist Reggie Allen has a plan to marry for money. One of her clients, paraplegic ex-aviator Allen Macklyn, is rich and has an eye for Reggie. However, things get a little crazy when Theodore Drew III enters her life....

6.8

349 votes

6.8

349 votes

Indiscreet

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Stanley Donen

Cast Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Cecil Parker · Phyllis Calvert

Synopsis Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

It Started with Eve

1941 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Deanna Durbin · Charles Laughton · Robert Cummings · Guy Kibbee

Synopsis A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know...

6.6

78 votes

6.6

78 votes

Bachelor Mother

1939 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Garson Kanin

Cast Ginger Rogers · David Niven · Charles Coburn · Frank Albertson

Synopsis Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.

6.6

322 votes

6.6

322 votes

You and Me

1938 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Sylvia Sidney · George Raft · Robert Cummings · Barton MacLane

Synopsis An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.

6.5

241 votes

6.5

241 votes

Let's Make Love

1960 · Movie · 118 min. · United States

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marilyn Monroe · Yves Montand · Tony Randall · Frankie Vaughan

Synopsis A millionaire is out to destroy a show that makes fun of him, until he meets cast member Monroe. To get closer to her he joins the cast and hires Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly and Milton Berle (as themselves) to...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Bombshell

1933 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Jean Harlow · Lee Tracy · Frank Morgan · Franchot Tone

Synopsis Lola Burns is at the top of the pile in Hollywood. But life ain't easy, what with her father and brother always hanging around for handouts, and devious studio publicity honcho Space Hanlon cooking up endless lurid newspaper stories. Makes...

6.4

43 votes

6.4

43 votes

Four Hours to Kill!

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Mitchell Leisen

Cast Richard Barthelmess · Joe Morrison · Gertrude Michael · Helen Mack

Synopsis A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing.

6.3

45 votes

6.3

45 votes

Big City

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

6.3

56 votes

6.3

56 votes

Who Was That Lady

1960 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction George Sidney

Cast Tony Curtis · Dean Martin · Janet Leigh · James Whitmore

Synopsis Real-life husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh star as David and Ann Wilson. David is a university professor who is kissing one of his students when Ann walks in on them. She demands a divorce. David turns to...

6.2

254 votes

6.2

254 votes

White Christmas

1954 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Bing Crosby · Danny Kaye · Rosemary Clooney · Vera-Ellen

Synopsis After World War II, song and dance men Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, form a successful partnership eventually becoming top Broadway producers. Bob agrees to take in a nightclub act by the Haynes sisters, Betty and Judy, as a favor,...

6.2

699 votes

6.2

699 votes

My Geisha

1962 · Movie · 119 min. · United States

Direction Jack Cardiff

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Yves Montand · Edward G. Robinson · Robert Cummings

Synopsis Paul Robaix (Yves Montand) is a well known director, married to Lucy Dell (Shirley MacLaine), a famous movie star. Robaix wants to make a movie of the classic play Madame Butterfly, but he doesn't want his wife to play the...

6.2

411 votes

6.2

411 votes

The Flame of New Orleans

1941 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction René Clair

Cast Marlene Dietrich · Bruce Cabot · Roland Young · Mischa Auer

Synopsis In 1841 New Orleans, beautiful adventuress Claire Ledoux schemes to marry wealthy banker Giraud; but in the intervals, she sees no harm in dalliance with poor but handsome sea captain Robert Latour. Her plots have ups and downs, become more...

6.1

92 votes

6.1

92 votes

Wife vs. Secretary

1936 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Myrna Loy · May Robson

Synopsis The wife of a publishing executive mistakenly believes that her husband's relationship with his attractive secretary is more than professional.

6.1

104 votes

6.1

104 votes

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Carole Lombard · Robert Montgomery · Gene Raymond · Jack Carson

Synopsis Sophisticated New York couple David and Annie Smith have an unusual marriage with an inordinate number of rules and regulations. One rule entitles them to ask each other one question per month which the other must answer completely honestly. Annie...

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

Sunday in New York

1963 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Peter Tewksbury

Cast Rod Taylor · Jane Fonda · Cliff Robertson · Robert Culp

Synopsis Eileen is 22 and engaged to Russ. She comes to New York to visit her brother, Adam, who is an airline pilot. One of Eileen's concerns is that she may be the only 22 year old virgin left in the...

5.8

145 votes

5.8

145 votes

Princess O'Rourke

1943 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Norman Krasna

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Robert Cummings · Charles Coburn · Jack Carson

Synopsis Poor Princess Maria is visiting New York, but she's not having any fun. So her uncle suggests she spend a few days in San Francisco. Unfortunately she's nervous about going by plane. To calm her jitters, she takes a sleeping...

5.7

27 votes

5.7

27 votes

The Ambassador's Daughter

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Norman Krasna

Cast Olivia de Havilland · John Forsythe · Myrna Loy · Adolphe Menjou

Synopsis Joan Fisk, daughter of the American ambassador to France, is bored with entertaining the wives of visiting V.I.P.s and decides to conduct an experiment. She accepts a date with an American G.I. and tries to prove to her father and...

5.3

60 votes

5.3

60 votes