Norman Taurog Movies

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and...

Genre: Family

Cast: Tommy Kelly

Rich momma's boy Wade Kingsley Jr. an Eastern dude, tries to follow in his murdered father's footsteps by returning to the West to partner up with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bing Crosby

In this campy spy movie spoof Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) has invented an army of bikini-clad robots who are programmed to seek out wealthy men and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vincent Price

A Mermaid Comedy

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lige Conley

Rich kid Danny Churchill has a taste for wine, women and song, but not for higher education. So his father ships him to an all-male college out West...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mickey Rooney

Devout but iron-willed Father Flanagan leads a community called Boys Town, a different sort of juvenile detention facility where, instead of being...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss'...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Fisher

Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army. With his lovely new female partner, Hap now plays...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Troy Donahue

Encomium to Larry Hart (1895-1943), seen through the fictive eyes of his song-writing partner, Richard Rodgers (1902-1979): from their first meeting,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Drake

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerry Lewis

Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant.

Genre: Music

Cast: Judy Garland

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deanna Durbin

Homer Flagg (Lewis) is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. One day he finds an abandoned automobile at an old atomic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Fred Astaire

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judy Garland

When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, a sailor, Ross Carpenter, has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Chad Gates has just been discharged from the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies and his girlfriend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

A singing rodeo rider hires on at an expensive all-women dude ranch and beauty spa. He falls for a pretty fitness trainer who is constantly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...

Genre: Western

Cast: Bing Crosby

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kathryn Grayson

When an aspiring barber becomes inadvertently involved in the theft of a valuable diamond, necessity forces him to masquerade as a 12 year-old child...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mickey Rooney

An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Avalon

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected....

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Powell

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pauline Lord

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Donlevy

Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jackie Cooper

Opera singer Prudence Budell, overhears truck driver Johnny Donnetti singing opera, and persuades her opera company to give him a chance in her new...

Genre: Music

Cast: Kathryn Grayson

Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dean Martin

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bert Wheeler

A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Deborah Kerr

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.

Genre: Family

Cast: Mickey Rooney

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Spencer Tracy

The weirdest alien of the galaxy pays a visit to Earth... Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerry Lewis

A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rosalind Russell

An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

The admiral is coming, so a sailor and his buddy hide their girlfriend and pet turkey.

Genre: Music

Cast: Pat Boone

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

McGrath publishes books for children and Uncle Bump is one of the best sellers. Unfortunately, Greg, who is Uncle Bump, tends to drink too much and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Van Johnson

The Navy expects a veteran to pay for the ship he commanded, as they have no record of its return.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerry Lewis

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Marjorie Main

A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jane Powell

When beautiful blonde movie star Laurel Stevens is kidnapped on the verge of the premiere of her film “The Kidnapped Bride”, everyone...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Russell

On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a twist when the girl falls in love with the man...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitzi Gaynor

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Cantor

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Rock

An irresponsible student enlists in the Coast Guard expecting to sit out World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andy Griffith

A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Too bad for presidential hopes of banker T.K. Blair; his party feels he has too little flair for savoir faire. But at a medicine show, the party...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George M. Cohan

After she enters the United States illegally, 15-year-old Polish singer Katri Walenska (Anna Maria Alberghetti) finds herself under the wing of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Rosemary Clooney

Rivals go at it as cab drivers, romancers of the same girl and football teams.

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Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

In an erudite driver's taxi, Jack Benny shares a ride with a very pretty and delightfully flirtatious young lady.

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Larry having to go through a lot of trouble to get his girl. All from bomb baking cooks to high flying crashes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Larry going investigating an Oriental opium den. And opium is to Larry what spinach is for Popeye!

Genre: Action

Cast: Larry Semon

Larry might be a hick causing a lot of trouble at the farm, but he shows he can outsmart those crooked city folks!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Cora, an heiress who gives it all up for the excitement of looking for a job and living on her own, meets up with unemployed and flat broke Dick. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Myrna Loy

Two-bit radio station owner Spud Miller doubles as the station's sole announcer. On the verge of bankruptcy, Spud is receptive to the wacky notions...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Oakie

Comedy short.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bobby Clark

Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Larry Semon

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

The Sportsman is an American film comedy first released in 1921, directed by Larry Semon and Norman Taurog. The film stars Larry Semon, Lucille...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

Genre: Western

Cast: Larry Semon

Lane plays two roles: Grand Duke Algy Horseradish De Ketchup of Worcestershire and Newsboy White. The newsboy is hired by Elmer Éclair (played...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lupino Lane

Lloyd Hamilton chasing a butterfly in the slapstick comedy "Papa's Boy".

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Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

A Pair of Kings is a 1922 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

In this one, we are introduced to a pretentious and uppity family who we just KNOW will be brought down to size later in the short. Then we cut to...

Genre:

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

This is a better than average Hamilton film thanks to the presence of a bratty kid who makes Lloyd's life miserable. It seems that Lloyd was hired as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

The plot of this film really isn't that important. Instead, the sight gags and chase scenes are paramount--with some of the most impressive chase...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

This one is set at a college picnic by the lake, with three musical numbers. "We've Got It Bad but It Don't Do Us No Good" is by a quartet of college...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lillian Roth

Slapstick comics Willie West and McGinty cause havoc at a construction site as they attempt to "work."

Genre: Comedy

Cast:

Lee Morse sings us a few songs.... Lee arrives at a film studio to discuss her participation. However the studio is ready for rehearsal and Lee...

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Cast: Lee Morse

A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Franziska Gaal

The star pitcher on the Pittsburgh ball team gets into trouble with a gold-digging groupie and his catcher helps him get back into the game.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Benny Rubin

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Murphy

Story of a football hero whose temper and drinking threaten his spot on the team, and his romantic life. His naive comical roommate remains his...

Genre: Music

Cast: Benny Rubin

George convinces his friend John that suicide isn't the answer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Allen Connor

George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ray Milland

A young orphan in New York's Lower East Side is collectively adopted by three neighborhood men--a minister, a cantor, and a cop.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret O'Brien

Lige Conley stars in "Fast and Furious" (1924), a fast-paced silent comedy. Conley's sidekick in this film, as with several in this series of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lige Conley

Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville...

Genre: Action

Cast: Rex Lease

The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leon Errol

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ed Wynn

A dim witted, scrawny fellow from the country finds college full of bullies that trick him into various painful situations with the dean. His wife...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Arthur

Lloyd, manager of a lunch wagon at the beach, must contend with his morning commute, difficult customers, and other problems on a day when absolutely...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

In 1923, The Gumps moved up to two-reel live-action comedies, with former Keystone Cop Joe Murphy as the chinless lead, pioneering...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joe Murphy

Newspapers around the world proclaim the birth in Moosetown, Canada of the 3,000th baby brought into the world by the doctor, John Luke, known for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Hersholt

A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jackie Coogan

Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

A wealthy man pretends to be a dummy on a movie set in order to meet to his favourite actress.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lupino Lane

Exasperated by his playboy son, a wealthy man sends him to Canada to become a Royal Canadian Mountie, in hopes that the young man will learn...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lige Conley

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lige Conley

A bumbling sawmill employee tries to win the hand of the owner's daughter while staying out of the clutches of the mill's bullying foreman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joe Penner

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mitzi Green

Phil and Lou inherit property left by an eccentric uncle with the provision they occupy the house for thirty days. But their cousin, Anita, wants the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Phil Dunham

A young Jewish man works in his father's jewelry business, but he doesn't like it at all--he wants to be an entertainer, something he knows that his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: George Jessel

Johnny Arthur has been ordered to spend a year out west to toughen him up, so he and butler George Davis head out. The cowboys at the ranch don't...

Genre: Western

Cast: Johnny Arthur

Larry in school and always gets in trouble until he falls asleep and dreams of when he's all grown up.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

A bill collector working in a tough neighborhood manages to rescue a young socialite from kidnappers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lloyd Hamilton

A man on the lam in the Canadian wilds encounters a young woman in a remote lodge who is also on the run.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Don Ameche

Very first of the Juvenile Comedies series.

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Cast: Ben Alexander

A well-dressed hobo gets a job as "utility man" with a theater company, and winds up starring in the show.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lupino Lane

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Hardy

Francois, a cheerful Parisian bohemian, wants more than anything to be a tour guide in his beloved city. While working the streets, Francois meets...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

Cheap Skates is a lost film made by Educational Films, as a "Mermaid Comedy". Funny man Lige Conley starts scrambling when bees fly down his pants!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lige Conley

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

The Rent Collector is a 1921 American silent comedy film featuring Larry Semon & Oliver Hardy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Larry Semon

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Larry Semon

Larry falls afoul of wanted criminal Gentleman Joe, who runs a saloon full of tough guys and gunslingers.

Genre: Western

Cast: Larry Semon

A harried propman backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning to rob...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Hardy

Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The...

Genre: Family

Cast: Jackie Cooper

A variety of accidents and escapes culminates in a cyclone which produces some ludicrous effects on the buildings, persons and animals in a small...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Neely Edwards