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Norman Krasna (November 7, 1909 – November 1, 1984) was an American screenwriter, playwright, producer, and film director. He is best known for penning screwball comedies which centred on a case of mistaken identity. Krasna also directed three films during a forty-year career in Hollywood. He garnered four Academy Award screenwriting nominations, winning once for 1943's ''Princess O'Rourke'', a film he also directed. ==Career== Krasna was born in Queens, New York City. He attended Columbia University and St John's University School of Law, working at Macy's Department Store during the day. He wanted to get into journalism and talked his way into a job as a copy boy for the Sunday feature department of the ''New York World'' in 1928. He quit law school, worked his way up to being a drama critic, at first for ''The World'' then the ''New York Evening Graphic'' and ''Exhibitors Herald World''. He was offered a job with Hubert Voight in the publicity department of Warner Bros and moved to Hollywood. He decided to become a playwright after seeing ''The Front Page''. To learn the craft, he retyped the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur classic more than twenty times.〔Norman Krasna, 74, Is Dead; Playwright and Screenwriter New York Times (1923–Current file) (York, N.Y ) 07 Nov 1984: B8.〕 Then while at Warners, at nights he wrote a play, ''Louder, Please!'', based on his job and heavily inspired by ''The Front Page''.〔McGilligan p213〕 He tried to sell it to Warners who were not interested but it was picked up by George Abbott who produced it on Broadway. The play had a short run, and Krasna was then offered a contract at Columbia Pictures as a junior staff writer.〔 He stayed at Columbia for five years, earning an Oscar nomination for ''The Richest Girl in the World''. He also wrote a second play, ''Small Miracle'', which was very successful and really established him. He would continue to alternate between Broadway and Hollywood throughout his career. By the mid-1930s he was working at other studios, such as MGM and Universal, and had turned producer. By the 1940s he also began to direct. During this decade he wrote two enormously popular plays, ''Dear Ruth'' and ''John Loves Mary''. In 1950 he and Jerry Wald formed Wald-Krasna Productions which worked out of RKO Studios for the next few years, announcing a $50 million slate of pictures.〔Film Men Wald and Krasna Tell Production Plans, Schallert, Edwin. Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File) (Angeles, Calif ) 16 Aug 1950: A8.〕 They made a number of films but both Wald and Krasna became frustrated at the influence of Howard Hughes, who ran RKO at the time, so Wald bought him out and he returned to writing.〔JERRY WALD IS SET TO BUY OUT KRASNA: COMPLETES DEAL FOR INTEREST IN FILM FIRM THEY SHARE – COMPANY STAYS AT R.K.O. By THOMAS M. PRYORSpecial to THE NEW YORK TIMES.. New York Times (1923–Current file) (York, N.Y ) 03 May 1952: 18.〕〔McGilligan p228〕 At one point, Krasna had actor John Forsythe under contract.〔Drama: Krasna Setting Deal With John Forsythe, Los Angeles Times (1923–Current File) (Angeles, Calif ) 27 Apr 1956: B6.〕 He moved to Switzerland but returned to Los Angeles before his death of a heart attack. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Norman Krasna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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