Norman Panama (1914 - 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director. He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, Melvin Frank[?] to form a writing partnership which endured for 3 decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope and Groucho Marx.
... is the wife of the bureaucrat Karenin. She is invited from her home in St Petersburg to Moscow to mediate the marital discord of her brother Stepan (Stiva) Oblonsky ...