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Melvin Frank

Highest Rated: 100% Road to Utopia (1945)

Lowest Rated: 44% The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)

Birthday: Aug 13, 1913

Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 76% Road to Utopia
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97% 93% The Court Jester
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86% 65% A Touch of Class
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86% 76% Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
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83% 77% A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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60% 39% The Road to Hong Kong
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50% 56% The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox
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44% 66% The Prisoner of Second Avenue
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Our Hearts Were Growing Up
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Melvin Frank

Melvin Frank THE JAYHAWKERS, from left: Nicole Maurey, Fess Parker, director Melvin Frank on set, 1959 THE JAYHAWKERS, Nicole Maurey, producer and director Melvin Frank, Fess Parker, producer Norman Panama, on-set, 1959 KNOCK ON WOOD, from left: director/screenwriter Melvin Frank, Sylvia Fine, director/screenwriter Norman Panama, Danny Kaye on set, 1954 STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, Gig Young, Rock Hudson, clowning around with director/writer Melvin Franks' chair, on-set, 1965 THE COURT JESTER, director Melvin Frank, (arms folded), Danny Kaye, (n plumed helmet), on-set, 1956 WALK LIKE A MAN, from left: Howie Mandel, director Melvin Frank, on set, 1987. ©MGM View more photos

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Walk Like a Man 52% 1987 Director Lost and Found 50% 1979 Director, Producer, Screenwriter The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox 50% 56% 1976 Director, Producer The Prisoner of Second Avenue 44% 66% 1975 Director, Producer A Touch of Class 86% 65% 1973 Director, Producer Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell 68% 1968 Director, Screenwriter, Producer A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 83% 77% 1966 Screenwriter, Producer Not With My Wife, You Don't! 36% 1966 Writer Strange Bedfellows 42% 1965 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Road to Hong Kong 60% 39% 1962 Screenwriter, Producer The Facts of Life 60% 1960 Director, Screenwriter The Trap 1959 Producer Li'l Abner 63% 1959 Director The Jayhawkers 67% 1959 Director, Producer, Screenwriter That Certain Feeling 1956 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Court Jester 97% 93% 1955 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Knock on Wood 64% 1954 Director, Screenwriter, Producer White Christmas 76% 89% 1954 Writer Above and Beyond 65% 1953 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Callaway Went Thataway 30% 1951 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Strictly Dishonorable 20% 1951 Director, Screenwriter, Producer The Reformer and the Redhead 30% 1950 Director, Screenwriter, Producer Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House 86% 76% 1948 Screenwriter, Producer Our Hearts Were Growing Up 1946 Screenwriter Road to Utopia 100% 76% 1945 Screenwriter
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