Biografía

21 de abril de 1914 · Chicago, Illinois, Estados Unidos

13 de enero de 2003 · Los Ángeles, California, Estados Unidos (complicaciones de enfermedad de Parkinson)

Norman Kaye Panama

Almost always co-wrote, produced, and directed with Melvin Frank

Outlandish and over the top comedy

Profiled in "The Laugh Crafters: Comedy Writing in Radio and TV's Golden Age" by Jordan Young (BearManor Media).

American screenwriter, usually of comedy subjects, under contract at Paramount from 1941 to 1946, and again from 1954 to 1959. Did his best work in collaboration with writer-director Melvin Frank, with whom he had studied at the University of Chicago. Their long partnership began, after they sold the story for Mi rubia favorita (1942) to Paramount in 1942.