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Also Known As Norman Rae Taurog
Born February 23, 1899 • Chicago • Illinois
Died April 7, 1981 (aged 82) • California
Notable Works “A Yank at Eton” • “Big City” • “Blue Hawaii” • “Boys Town” • “Broadway Melody of 1940” • “Bundle of Joy” • “Follow the Leader” • “G.I. Blues” • “Girl Crazy” • “Girls! Girls! Girls!” • “Huckleberry Finn” • “Mad About Music” • “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” • “Presenting Lily Mars” • “Room for One More” • “Skippy” • “That Midnight Kiss” • “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” • “The Beginning or the End” • “The Big Broadcast of 1936” • “The Bride Goes Wild” • “The Caddy” • “The Girl Downstairs” • “The Hoodlum Saint” • “The Stooge” • “The Toast of New Orleans” • “Visit to a Small Planet” • “Words and Music”

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Director Norman Taurog, wearing a hat and glasses, sits beside actor Mickey Rooney, who is smiling, on the set of the film Boys Town, with camera equipment visible behind them.
Tommy Kelly as Tom Sawyer and Jackie Moran as Huckleberry Finn crouch together in straw hats and period clothing, peering out from behind a tree in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938).
Boys Town
scene from Broadway Melody of 1940
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in a comedic moment, with Martin facing Lewis, who is making a goofy face and gesture, in a scene from the 1953 film The Stooge.
Elvis Presley, holding a ukulele, sings to Joan Blackman, who sits on a rock in a yellow swimsuit, in a beach scene from the film Blue Hawaii.
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