Melvin Frank
Began his career, with partner Norman Panama, as a writer for the Bob Hope radio show. The pair graduated to feature film writing in 1942, subsequently collaborating on the Hope/Bing Crosby/Dorothy Lamour "Road" movies as well as a number of noted romantic comedies including "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" (1948), which they also produced. From 1949 onward Frank and Panama alternated directing and producing duties on several films, including the Danny Kaye vehicles "Knock on Wood" (1954) and the especially good "The Court Jester" (1956), before amicably dissolving the partnership in 1960. Each subsequently pursued a successful solo career. Frank's credits gradually became more intermittent but he still helmed some enjoyable comedies, the best of which were probably "Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell" (1968) and "A Touch of Class" (1973).
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Melvin Frank
Filmography
Movies
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Walk Like a Man | Director | $186.9K | 1987 |
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Lost and Found |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1979 |
50% |
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The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox |
Director, Producer |
- | 1976 |
44% |
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue |
Director, Producer |
- | 1975 |
86% |
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A Touch of Class |
Director, Producer |
- | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1968 |
83% |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1966 |
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Not With My Wife, You Don't! | Writer | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Strange Bedfellows |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1965 |
60% |
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The Road to Hong Kong |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1962 |
No Score Yet |
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The Facts of Life |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trap | Producer | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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Li'l Abner | Director | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet |
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The Jayhawkers |
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Certain Feeling |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1956 |
97% |
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The Court Jester |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1955 |
No Score Yet |
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Knock on Wood |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1954 |
76% |
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White Christmas | Writer | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet |
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Above and Beyond |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1953 |
No Score Yet |
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Callaway Went Thataway |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Strictly Dishonorable |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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The Reformer and the Redhead |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Hearts Were Growing Up | Screenwriter | - | 1946 |
100% |
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Road to Utopia | Screenwriter | - | 1945 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | And the Angels Sing | Screenwriter | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happy Go Lucky | Screenwriter | - | 1943 |
No Score Yet |
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Star Spangled Rhythm | Writer | - | 1942 |