Movies123 - - Norman Taurog Movie List

G.I. Blues (1960) Tulsa is a specialist in the US Army stationed in Germany. He loves to sing and has dreams to run his own nightclub when he leaves the army....but dreams don't come cheap. Tulsa places a bet with his friend Dynamite that he can spend the night with a club dancer named Lili, who is

Tickle Me (1965) Elvis is a singing rodeo rider who drifts into an expensive dude ranch patronized by wealthy glamour girls. The owner, Vera Radford, hires Elvis as a stable man. Pretty physical fitness trainer Pam Merritt has a letter from her late grandfather directing her to a cache of gold in th

Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) Photographer Greg Nolan meets Bernice, and loses both his job and his apartment. However, Bernice manages to get him a new apartment, but it is so expensive that he has to get two full-time jobs. Nolan has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses fi

It Happened at the Worlds Fair (1963) Mike and Danny fly a crop duster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff seizes it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, who

Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club si

Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend. His father wants him to go to work at the Great ...

Speedway (1968) Elvis Presley sings his way around the race circuit as successful speedway driver Steve Grayson. All is fine and dandy until the tax return submitted by a wise-cracking Bill Bixby (as Steve's manager) is scrutinised by the IRS. Will Elvis be able to raise the $145,000 to pay his tax

Against all odds Father Flanagan starts

Pardners (1956) Martin and Lewis are sons of former ranch partners. Lewis, raised by his millionaire mother, follows visiting Martin back to the old West to learn how to be a cowboy. The ranch where Martin is foreman is in financial trouble, and with Lewis's unorthodox help, the good guys win out.

Living It Up (1954) Pretty Wally Cooper, a reporter for the New York Chronicle convinces her editor to let her do a series of articles on Homer Flagg, a young man from New Mexico who is believed to be dying as a result of radioactive poisoning. Before she arrives out west, Homer learns from his doct

Jumping Jacks (1952) Hap Smith, nightclub entertainer, has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen joined the army: with lovely new partner Betsy Carter, Hap plays a clownish parody of a soldier. Meanwhile, Chick is organizing a soldier show at Fort Benning and finds he needs his old partner'

The Beginning or the End (1947) Docudrama on the development of the first atomic bomb. Told from the perspective of a film recovered from a time capsule several hundred years into the future, the story is narrated by Robert Oppenheimer (Hume Cronyn) and Major General Leslie Groves (Brian Donlevy) be

Girl Crazy (1943) Rich kid Danny Churchill (Rooney) 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 where there's not supposed to be a female for miles. But before Danny arrives, he spies a pair of legs extending out from un

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Sentiment rules in this version of the Twain tale of boyhood in 1850 Missouri, reasonably faithful except for minor details and making the character Jim a boy instead of a man. Includes the whitewash episode, puppy love, the graveyard murder, the boys' running awa

Youre Never Too Young (1955) Wilbur is a young man whose dream is to become a great barber, but for now, he's working just as an assistant, at a hotel's barber shop. When one day he gets involved (by mistake) in some big robbery, he is forced to disguise himself as a 12 year old boy, so that he can

The Stooge (1951) Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.

Dont Give Up the Ship (1959) John Paul Steckler was the Junior Officer aboard a destroyer when WWII ended. He gets stuck with the job of sailing the ship to the states to be decommissioned. Now years latter, no one knows where the ship is. He has a choice. Find the ship, or pay for it, Now! If only

The Caddy (1953) The origin of Anthony and Miller, a wildly successful comedy team, can be traced back several years to Harvey Miller's stage fright on the golf links. Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his one right, Miller is too nervous to golf in front of a gallery

Visit to a Small Planet (1960) Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth, and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in U.F.O's and aliens. Wanting to study humans but not able to fully understand

Room for One More (1952) Anne and "Poppy" Rose are the average American family, with three quirky kids. Anne has a good heart and gives lost cats and dogs a home - and one day also the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once. At first Poppy is worried and wants to get rid

Mrs. OMalley and Mr. Malone (1950) "Murder-on-the-train" mystery has lawyer Malone chasing his paroled embezzler client (Kepplar) who still hasn't paid Malone's fee. When Kepplar jumps parole on a train to Chicago, Malone follows, in company with Kepplar's ex-wife, a police inspector and M

Gold Rush Maisie (1940) Maisie becomes attached to a dirt-poor farmer and his family as they try to make ends meet joining hundreds of others digging for gold in a previously panned-out ghost town.

Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brent as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to gives him the name of his partner.

Spinout 1966 Mike McCoy is the lead singer for a band combo and part time racecar driver trying to get by when he is persued by a trio of very different women who want his hand in marriage The first is Les, the female drummer of his band, The second is Cynthia, a spoiled heiress and Daddys girl The

Double Trouble 1967 A rock singer touring England gets involved with a wealthy teenage heiress in London Turns out the girls uncle is trying to steal her money, putting her life in danger, and is also involved in a jewel smuggling operation

Mad About Music 1938 A young woman at a girls school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer adventurer father and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helpin

Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine 1965 Dr Goldfoot plans on taking over the world with his beautiful female robots, who seduce rich and powerful men Robot 11Diane is sent after millionaire Todd Armstrong Secret agent Craig Gamble tries to stop the plot but ends up in the torture chamber with Armstr

The Hoodlum Saint 1946 A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that its much more difficult to find work than he expected Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the citys rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay Lorriso

Words and Music 1948 Encomium to Larry Hart 1895 1943, seen through the fictive eyes of his song writing partner, Richard Rodgers 1902 1979 from their first meeting, through lean years and their breakthrough, to their successes on Broadway, London, and Hollywood We see the fruits of Hart and Rodgers