Norman Krasna — Playwright (12)
The Richest Girl in the World (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Richest Girl in the World
other title: La ragazza più ricca del mondo / La venus de oro
Millionairess Dorothy Hunter is tired of finding out that her boyfriends love her for her money, and equally weary of losing eligible beaus who don't want to be considered fortune-hunters. That's why she trades identities with her secretary Sylvia before embarking on her next romance with Tony Travers. This causes numerous complications not only for Dorothy and Tony but for Sylvia, whose own husband Philip is not the most patient of men.
It Started with Eve (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
It Started with Eve
other title: La prima è stata Eva / Die ewige Eva
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
Four Hours to Kill! (1935) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Four Hours to Kill!
other title: Compás de espera / Ultime Forfait
A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.
Let's Make Love (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Let's Make Love
director: George Cukor actor: Marilyn Monroe / Yves Montand
other title: Facciamo l'amore / Let's make love
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
You and Me (1938) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
You and Me
director: Fritz Lang actor: Sylvia Sidney / George Raft
other title: Du und ich / Casier judiciaire
Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Practically Yours (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Practically Yours
other title: Sinceramente tua / Sturzflug ins Glück
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembering his days back home walking his dog Piggy. Instead of his dog Piggy he is thought to be in love with Peggy, a girl he worked with. The usual farce ensues after he returns home alive and tries to play along with the mistake to save embarrassment for all.
Who Was That Lady? (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Who Was That Lady?
director: George Sidney actor: Tony Curtis / Dean Martin
other title: Chi era quella signora? / Wer war die Dame?
In order to get back into the good graces with his wife with whom he has had a misunderstanding, a young chemistry professor concocts a wild story that he is an undercover FBI agent. To help him with his story he enlists the aid of a friend who is a TV writer. The wife swallows the story and the film's climax takes place in the sub-basements of the Empire State Building. The professor and his friend, believing themselves prisoners on an enemy submarine, patriotically try to scuttle the vessel and succeed only in rocking the building.
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Devil and Miss Jones
director: Sam Wood actor: Charles Coburn / Jean Arthur
other title: Il diavolo si converte / O Diabo e a Mulher
The wealthiest man in the world, John P. Merrick, is a private person who likes to stay anonymous. One of his many assets is Neeley's Department Store. There is labor unrest at the store, and the employees' anger is directed at him, who they hang in effigy outside the store despite not knowing what he looks like. Merrick, not happy at what he sees going on, decides to mete out the rabble-rousers. So he goes undercover as a sales clerk in the shoe department.