• Melvin Frank (13 August 1913 – 13 October 1988) was an American screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is known for his partnership with Norman...
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  • footballer Melvin Watkins (born 1954), American basketball coach Melvin Burgess (born 1954), British author of children's fiction Melvin Frank (1913–1988)...
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  • film producer and film director. He is known for his partnership with Melvin Frank and their work on films such as Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House...
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  • that "given an Irving Berlin score, a sentimental and amusing book by Melvin Frank and the two Normans, Krasna and Panama, a cast headed by Bing Crosby...
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  • A Touch of Class (film) (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    Class is a 1973 British romantic comedy film produced and directed by Melvin Frank and starring George Segal, Glenda Jackson, Hildegard Neil, Paul Sorvino...
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    Frederick Melvin Franks Jr. (born 1 November 1936) is a retired general of the United States Army. He commanded the Gulf War coalition VII Corps in the...
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  • belly-deep guffaws. For their former travel agents, Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, who have not only written this picture but produced and directed it...
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  • Grant, Myrna Loy and Melvyn Douglas. Written and produced by the team of Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it was an adaptation of the 1946 novel of the same...
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    Children of Paradise Jacques Prévert Notorious Ben Hecht Road to Utopia Melvin Frank & Norman Panama 1947 (20th) The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Sidney Sheldon‡...
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    of his most successful roles, Segal played a philandering husband in Melvin Frank's continental romantic comedy A Touch of Class (1973) opposite Glenda...
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  • to Utopia is the fourth film of the "Road to ..." series. Written by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, the film is about two vaudeville performers at the...
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  • Michael Hordern, and Roy Kinnear. The film was adapted for the screen by Melvin Frank and Michael Pertwee from the stage musical of the same name with music...
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  • George Marshall and others, and written by Harry Tugend with sketches by Melvin Frank, George S. Kaufman and others. The film has music by Robert Emmett Dolan...
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  • The Prisoner of Second Avenue (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    American black comedy film written by Neil Simon, directed and produced by Melvin Frank and starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft. Neil Simon adapted the screenplay...
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    The Court Jester (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    Lansbury and Cecil Parker. The film was written, produced, and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama for distribution by Paramount Pictures. It was released...
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  • screenwriter, and producer Melvin Frank to produce the telecast for the first time. "The Academy is fortunate that Melvin Frank has agreed to make himself...
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  • Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    1968 American comedy film starring Gina Lollobrigida, and directed by Melvin Frank, who co-wrote the original screenplay with Denis Norden and Sheldon Keller...
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    29, 2007. Retrieved October 24, 2021. Maslin, Janet (January 7, 1981). "'Melvin and Howard' is chosen as best film". The New York Times. Retrieved October...
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  • Li'l Abner (1959 film) (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    opened in 1956. The film was produced by Norman Panama and directed by Melvin Frank (co-writers of the Broadway production). It was the second film to be...
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  • fairly taut picture in the outdoor action frame. Norman Panama, who, with Melvin Frank, produced it, directed it and helped to write the script, has seen to...
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  • Above and Beyond (1952 film) (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945. Directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, it stars Robert Taylor as Tibbets and features a love...
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    Me Frank Tashlin Frank Tashlin 1960 The Apartment Billy Wilder Song Without End George Cukor & Charles Vidor William Goetz The Facts of Life Melvin Frank...
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  • William A. Seiter 1933 97 Bull Durham Ron Shelton 1988 98 The Court Jester Melvin Frank, Norman Panama 1956 99 The Nutty Professor Jerry Lewis 1963 100 Good...
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  • Li'l Abner is a 1956 musical with a book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, music by Gene De Paul, and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Based on the comic strip...
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  • Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, also products of the Norman Panama-Melvin Frank writing team. The opening title sequence and interior sequences with...
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    that opened in 1956 and was produced by Norman Panama & directed by Melvin Frank. 1970 Original Cast Album: Company Herself / Amy Documentary film by...
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    the House 2002 Speakeasy Bruce Hickman Blue Car Auster 2004 Twisted Melvin Frank 2005 The Notorious Bettie Page Estes Kefauver Missing in America Henry...
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  • Knock on Wood (film) (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    Thatcher, David Burns, and Leon Askin. The film was written and directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama, with songs by Kaye's wife, Sylvia Fine. Jerry Morgan...
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  • The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (category Films directed by Melvin Frank)
    Western romantic comedy film directed and produced by Melvin Frank from a screenplay by Frank, Barry Sandler, and Jack Rose and a story by Sandler. It...
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  • New York City with his paternal grandparents, Helen (née Campbell) and Frank Melvin. Allan attended Columbia University, and after his graduation he served...
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