Norman Panama
Writing
Awards
Nominated for 3 Academy Awards
Academy Awards 3 nominated
- 1961 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated The Facts of Life
- 1955 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated Knock on Wood
- 1947 Best Writing, Original Screenplay Nominated Road to Utopia
Edgar Awards 1 won
- 1982 Edgar Awards Won
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Norman Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former school friend, Melvin Frank, to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope's radio program and for Groucho Marx.
The most famous films Panama directed were Li'l Abner (1959), the Danny Kaye film The Court Jester (1956), and Bob Hope's How to Commit Marriage (1969). He wrote Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Road to Utopia (1946), and The Court Jester, among other movies.
He won an Edgar Award for A Talent for Murder (1981), a play he co-wrote with Jerome Chodorov.
Panama continued to write and direct through the 1980s. He died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California from complications due to Parkinson's disease.
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Filmography
Writing
31 credits
White Christmas
The Court Jester
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Trap
The Princess and the Pirate
Road to Utopia
The Road to Hong Kong
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Above and Beyond
Knock on Wood
Strange Bedfellows
Star Spangled Rhythm
Thank Your Lucky Stars
It Had to Be You
My Favorite Blonde
The Reformer and the Redhead
A Talent for Murder
Li'l Abner
Callaway Went Thataway
And the Angels Sing
That Certain Feeling
Li'l Abner in the Dogpatch Today
I Will, I Will...For Now
Monsieur Beaucaire
Happy Go Lucky
Duffy's Tavern
The Facts of Life
Coffee, Tea or Me?
The Return of October
Our Hearts Were Growing Up
Strictly Dishonorable
Directing
14 credits
The Trap
The Road to Hong Kong
Not With My Wife, You Don't!
Above and Beyond
Knock on Wood
The Maltese Bippy
The Reformer and the Redhead
Callaway Went Thataway
How to Commit Marriage
That Certain Feeling
I Will, I Will...For Now
Coffee, Tea or Me?
Barnaby and Me
Strictly Dishonorable
Producing
6 credits
The Court Jester
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Jayhawkers!
Strange Bedfellows
Li'l Abner
The Facts of Life
Acting
1 credit
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