Norman Taurog Movies

In 1923, The Gumps moved up to two-reel live-action comedies, with former Keystone Cop Joe Murphy as the chinless lead, pioneering...

Larry might be a hick causing a lot of trouble at the farm, but he shows he can outsmart those crooked city folks!

Rivals go at it as cab drivers, romancers of the same girl and football teams.

Well-meaning but accident-prone bakery employee Larry is involved in numerous slapstick mishaps on the job. After accidentally causing the bakery...

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best,...

Comedy short.

Parisian playboy plays father to an abandoned baby who interferes with his womanising.

Two small town widows bring their children to Hollywood, where their children become competing film stars. The girl is sweet, the boy is a killjoy...

A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father, and...

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

Larry acts as a fearless hunter who claims he is completely unfazed by small creatures like rabbits, canaries, and field mice. He remains entirely...

A variety of accidents and escapes culminates in a cyclone which produces some ludicrous effects on the buildings, persons and animals in a small...

Slapstick comics Willie West and McGinty cause havoc at a construction site as they attempt to "work."

An overview of Cole Porter’s musical contributions to the film Broadway Melody of 1940.

Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The...

A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences...

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...

Ham gets a job at the lunch counter at a fitness club and soon rouses the ire of the manager.

Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.