Still the youngest director to ever win an Academy Award (Skippy, 1931); Norman Taurogs career embraces the history of Hollywood, from silent comedies to the Elvis Presley era. During Taurogs fifty-two years in the film business he directed seventy-eight feature films starring everyone from Maurice Chevalier and Carole Lombard, to W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, to Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy (who won an Oscar for his performance as Father Flanagan in Taurogs Boys Town), to Judy Garland, Mario Lanza, Cary Grant, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and of course his nine films with Elvis Presley....
Still the youngest director to ever win an Academy Award (Skippy, 1931); Norman Taurogs career embraces the history of Hollywood, from silent comedies...