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Norman Krasna ( - )
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Husband of Ruth Olga (Frehse) Frazee — married 6 Aug (to ) [location unknown]
Husband of Erle Chenault (Galbraith) Krasna — married 7 Dec [location unknown]
Father of [private son (s - unknown)], [private daughter (s - unknown)] and [private daughter (s - unknown)]
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Biography
Norman Krasna is Notable.
Son of Benjamin Krasna and Beatrice Krasna (Mannison)
Norman Krasna (November 7, – November 1, ) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director.
John loves mary by norman krasna wikipedia biography Krasna followed it with another comedy for Broadway, John Loves Mary (), originally William and Mary, directed by Joshua Logan. It was also very popular and was made into a film (at Warners, sold for $, going up to $,) that Krasna did not work on.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. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 's Princess O'Rourke, a film he also directed.
Norman Krasna was born in Queens, New York City.
John loves mary by norman krasna wikipedia free From to Krasna was married to vaudeville performer Ruth Frazee, with whom he had two children. By the s Norman began to direct, and wrote two enormously popular plays, Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary. In Norman and Jerry Wald formed Wald-Krasna Productions.He attended Columbia University and St John's University School of Law, He quit law school, worked his way up to being a drama critic.
He was offered a job with Hubert Voight in the publicity department of Warner Bros and moved to Hollywood.
He decided to become a playwright after seeing The Front Page.
He worked at Columbia for five years, earning an Oscar nomination for The Richest Girl in the World.
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John Loves Mary is a comedy film directed by David Butler and written by Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film stars Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and Jack Carson. [4] The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 19,He also wrote a second play Small Miracle, which was very successful and really established him.
By the mids he was working at other studios, such as MGM and Universal, and had turned producer.
From to Krasna was married to vaudeville performer Ruth Frazee, with whom he had two children.
By the s Norman began to direct, and wrote two enormously popular plays, Dear Ruth and John Loves Mary.
In Norman and Jerry Wald formed Wald-Krasna Productions.
In the summer of , the powerful producer Norman Krasna met Erle Jolson, 13 years his junior, and the youthful widow of singer Al Jolson. This was just after Norman's five-day engagement to actress Betty Hutton had ended.
In the prior year, Betty had just ended her first of what would ultimately be her four failed marriages.
Erle and Norman Krasna married Dec. 7, The couple moved into the Palm Springs, California, former home of Erle and Al Jolson. They remained married until Krasna's death in He had six children.
In the early s Norman and Erle moved to Switzerland, where they spent twenty years, but they returned to Los Angeles before his death of a heart attack there.
Norman Krasna is survived by three children from his marriage to Erle,
- Beth,
- Emily and
- David; and three grandchildren.John loves mary by norman krasna wikipedia John Loves Mary is a comedy film directed by David Butler and written by Henry Ephron and Phoebe Ephron. The film stars Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and Jack Carson. [4] The film was released by Warner Bros. on February 19,
Erle Jolson Krasna died Sunday January 11, of cancer at her Century City home.
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