Norman Z. McLeod

Norman Z. McLeod

Norman Zenos McLeod (September 20, 1898, Grayling, Michigan – January 27, 1964, Hollywood, California) was an American film director, cartoonist and writer. He is considered one of the best directors of comedy films of all time. McLeod made several successful and influential movies such as Taking A Chance (1928), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), Topper (1937) and Merrily We Live (1938). Other memorable films directed by McLeod includes It's a Gift (1934) with W.C. Fields, and the Danny Kaye comedy The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). His nickname, as recorded on a publicity still on the set of Monkey Business, was "Macko." Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Z. McLeod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Norman Z. McLeod
  • Popularity: 0.771
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1898-09-20
  • Place of Birth: Grayling, Michigan, USA
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  • Also Known As: Норман З. МакЛеод, Norman McLeod
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Norman Z. McLeod Movies

  • 1924
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    Grandpa's Girl

    Grandpa's Girl

    5 1924 HD

    A 1924 Jack Duffy comedy. Jean manages to be expelled from college to be able to go to Europe with her grandfather. When he learns about that,...

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  • 1923
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    Fool Proof

    Fool Proof

    1 1923 HD

    A 1924 Neal Burns comedy. To show his son that there’s more to life than work, a rich man pretends he is getting married to a chorus girl.

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  • 1923
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    A Perfect 36

    A Perfect 36

    5 1923 HD

    In order to escape from the police after a small car accident, Bobby dresses as a girl and a sailor in a boat ride.

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  • 1937
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    Topper

    Topper

    6.8 1937 HD

    Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of...

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  • 1933
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6 1933 HD

    In Victorian England, a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland, populated by even more fantastic characters.

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  • 1947
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    Road to Rio

    Road to Rio

    6.7 1947 HD

    Scat Sweeney, and Hot Lips Barton, two out of work musicians, stow away on board a Rio bound ship, after accidentally setting fire to the big top of...

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  • 1947
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    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

    6.8 1947 HD

    Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream...

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  • 1934
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    It's a Gift

    It's a Gift

    6.459 1934 HD

    After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an...

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  • 1931
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    Monkey Business

    Monkey Business

    7 1931 HD

    Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

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  • 1932
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    Horse Feathers

    Horse Feathers

    6.849 1932 HD

    Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival...

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  • 1941
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    Lady Be Good

    Lady Be Good

    5.4 1941 HD

    Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

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  • 1959
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    Alias Jesse James

    Alias Jesse James

    5.9 1959 HD

    Insurance salesman Milford Farnsworth sells a man a life policy only to discover that the man in question is the outlaw Jesse James. Milford is sent...

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  • 1924
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    Getting Gertie's Goat

    Getting Gertie's Goat

    5 1924 HD

    Gertie and Jimmie want to get married and go on a honeymoon. They have the license and the tickets, but have to get past her strict father.

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  • 1948
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    The Paleface

    The Paleface

    6.062 1948 HD

    Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless"...

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  • 1928
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    The Air Circus

    The Air Circus

    1 1928 HD

    Two eager young pilots at flight school compete over their flight instructor's aviatrix sister.

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  • 1938
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    Topper Takes a Trip

    Topper Takes a Trip

    6.4 1938 HD

    Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...

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  • 1938
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    There Goes My Heart

    There Goes My Heart

    7.2 1938 HD

    An heiress takes a job as a department store clerk.

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  • 1933
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    A Lady's Profession

    A Lady's Profession

    1 1933 HD

    A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

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  • 1954
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    Casanova's Big Night

    Casanova's Big Night

    6.1 1954 HD

    Italy 1757, Pippo Popolino, a lowly tailor, disguises himself as the great Casanova in order to romance the attractive widow Francesca. He little...

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  • 1942
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    Panama Hattie

    Panama Hattie

    4 1942 HD

    Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.

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  • 1943
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    Swing Shift Maisie

    Swing Shift Maisie

    6.5 1943 HD

    Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin....

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  • 1942
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    Jackass Mail

    Jackass Mail

    7 1942 HD

    An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father.

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  • 1932
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    If I Had a Million

    If I Had a Million

    6.6 1932 HD

    An elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.

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  • 1951
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    My Favorite Spy

    My Favorite Spy

    5.971 1951 HD

    A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.

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  • 1953
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    Never Wave at a WAC

    Never Wave at a WAC

    4.885 1953 HD

    A divorced socialite decides to join the Army because she hopes it will enable her to see more of her boyfriend, a Colonel. She soon encounters many...

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  • 1946
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    The Kid from Brooklyn

    The Kid from Brooklyn

    6.2 1946 HD

    Shy milkman Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken Speed McFarlane, a champion boxer who was flirting with Burleigh's sister. The...

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  • 1950
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    Let's Dance

    Let's Dance

    5.8 1950 HD

    Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and...

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  • 1938
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    Merrily We Live

    Merrily We Live

    7.2 1938 HD

    Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep...

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  • 1936
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    Pennies from Heaven

    Pennies from Heaven

    6.8 1936 HD

    Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be...

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  • 1935
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    Coronado

    Coronado

    3 1935 HD

    Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...

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  • 1943
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    The Powers Girl

    The Powers Girl

    6.5 1943 HD

    Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine...

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  • 1936
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    Mind Your Own Business

    Mind Your Own Business

    1 1936 HD

    Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy...

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  • 1948
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    Isn't It Romantic?

    Isn't It Romantic?

    7 1948 HD

    Three sisters find romance in post-Civil War Indiana.

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  • 1936
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    Early to Bed

    Early to Bed

    7 1936 HD

    Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with...

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  • 1939
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    Remember?

    Remember?

    5.8 1939 HD

    Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But...

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  • 1939
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    Remember?

    Remember?

    5.8 1939 HD

    Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But...

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  • 1935
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    Here Comes Cookie

    Here Comes Cookie

    7.2 1935 HD

    A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to...

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  • 1931
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    Finn and Hattie

    Finn and Hattie

    5.333 1931 HD

    The Haddocks are going on a European vacation and from their reception at the station, where the whole town goes to see them off, it is clear who...

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  • 1932
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    The Miracle Man

    The Miracle Man

    5.6 1932 HD

    A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

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  • 1933
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    Mama Loves Papa

    Mama Loves Papa

    1 1933 HD

    A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.

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  • 1957
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    Public Pigeon No. 1

    Public Pigeon No. 1

    6 1957 HD

    Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

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  • 1928
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    Long Hose

    Long Hose

    1 1928 HD

    Jack Duffy had two skills that helped make him the lead in a nice series of short comedies in the 1920s: the usual ability to take one of the...

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  • 1940
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    Little Men

    Little Men

    6.1 1940 HD

    Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's...

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  • 1941
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    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    The Trial of Mary Dugan

    5 1941 HD

    Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced...

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  • 1927
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    Wings

    Wings

    7.221 1927 HD

    Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces...

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  • 1935
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    Redheads on Parade

    Redheads on Parade

    1 1935 HD

    A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him from withdrawing his support.

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  • 1934
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    Melody in Spring

    Melody in Spring

    6 1934 HD

    It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour,"...

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  • 1934
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    Many Happy Returns

    Many Happy Returns

    5.333 1934 HD

    Gracie Allen assumes the "management" of the shop owned by her papa Horatio Allen, turning it into a radio station and then an aviary---with the...

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  • 1928
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    The Play Girl

    The Play Girl

    1 1928 HD

    When Madge, a clerk in a flower shop, is sent to a bachelor's apartment to deliver and arrange a bouquet, she discovers a guest, young and handsome...

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  • 1930
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    Along Came Youth

    Along Came Youth

    1 1930 HD

    An American sportsman stranded in London poses as a cook to remain close to the aristocratic lady he would woo.

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  • 1931
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    Touchdown!

    Touchdown!

    1 1931 HD

    Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

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  • 1939
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    Remember?

    Remember?

    5.8 1939 HD

    Sky and Linda meet on vacation and become engaged. When Sky introduces Linda to his best friend, Jeff, Linda and Jeff fall in love and marry. But...

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  • 1931
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    Skippy

    Skippy

    6.056 1931 HD

    Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky's pet from a cruel...

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  • 1931
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    Sooky

    Sooky

    1 1931 HD

    Skippy, son of Dr. Herbert and Mrs. Skinner, adamantly stands by his poor friend, Sooky Wayne, who lives in Shantytown with his sickly mother. The...

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  • 1970
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    8.445 1970 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour...

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  • 1970
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    6.5 1970 HD

    Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The...

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