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    Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. A satire of the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood...
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    thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story (1942), the romance film Bird of...
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  • Conquering Hero (1944). He also wrote and directed The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels (both 1941) and The Palm Beach Story (1942), each considered classic...
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    Ladd during the 1940s, her peek-a-boo hairstyle, and films such as Sullivan's Travels (1941) and I Married a Witch (1942). By the late 1940s, Lake's career...
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    Preston Sturges aimed to validate this notion by creating a film called Sullivan's Travels about a director of lightweight comedies wanting to make a serious...
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    (uncredited) My Life with Caroline (1941) - Albert (uncredited) Sullivan's Travels (1941) - Sullivan's Butler Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) -...
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  • title of the film is a reference to the 1941 Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother...
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  • Martin Lagonda The "land yacht" description was used in the 1941 film Sullivan's Travels to describe a bus converted with bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchen,...
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  • Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 59. Nashville (1975) 61. Sullivan's Travels (1941) 63. Cabaret (1972) 67. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)...
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    convict, named Abby Lindon. Hayes' films included The Glass Key, Sullivan's Travels, and Good Day for a Hanging. In 1958, in the film Damn Citizen, Hayes...
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    greatest films in American cinema; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Sullivan's Travels (1941) and Double Indemnity (1944). Hall also appeared in six films...
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  • River Kwai, Von Ryan's Express, Prison Break, The X-Files, Firefly, Sullivan's Travels, My Name is Earl, The A-Team, Farscape, Burn Notice, Batman: The Animated...
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    his direction. Among these he had prominent roles in The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, Hail the Conquering Hero, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. Demarest...
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  • the Hole 3 Women The Red Shoes Down by Law La ciénaga Wanda House Sullivan's Travels The Battle of Algiers A Woman Under the Influence Cléo from 5 to 7...
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  • Films - 50 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman ABC Motion Pictures - 59 Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges Paramount Pictures - 61 Cabaret 1972 Bob Fosse...
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    borrowed from the Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels (1941), whose lead character, movie director John Sullivan, had planned to make a film with that...
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  • John 'Sully' Sullivan, from the television series Third Watch John L. Sullivan, protagonist in the film Sullivan's Travels Jordan Sullivan, from the television...
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  • Great McGinty (1940) Christmas in July (1940) The Lady Eve (1941) Sullivan's Travels (1941) The Palm Beach Story (1942) The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)...
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  • for Margaret Wake Island The Male Animal The Major and the Minor Sullivan's Travels The Moon and Sixpence The Pied Piper 1943: The Ox-Bow Incident Watch...
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  • This was Sturges' second collaboration with Joel McCrea, following Sullivan's Travels from the previous year, and they worked again on The Great Moment...
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  • are entirely serious, and there are also films spoofing the genre (Sullivan's Travels, for example). Dore Schary was famous for his message pictures at...
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  • Dictator Charlie Chaplin 1940 38 City Lights Charlie Chaplin 1931 39 Sullivan's Travels Preston Sturges 1941 40 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Stanley Kramer...
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    Irene (Carole Lombard). In Sullivan's Travels, a 1941 comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, John L. Sullivan, a wanderlust movie director...
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    played an African-American church preacher in the motion picture Sullivan's Travels, where he leads his congregation in singing "Go Down Moses". Born...
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    screen appearances were in 'Sullivan's Travels' and 'Wilson.' Curioso, Jorge (Apr 16, 2008). "Go Down Moses - Sullivan's Travels (1941)". YouTube. Retrieved...
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    the City, Hud, Sounder, Norma Rae Preston Sturges: The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero Maurice Tourneur:...
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  • movie-within-a-movie that the protagonist of Sturges's masterwork, Sullivan's Travels, intends to make about the 'common man'—only to discover that the...
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  • the original on November 13, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020. "Sullivan's Travels (1941)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on December 30...
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    Greek poem the Odyssey and the Preston Sturges 1941 classic film Sullivan's Travels. This film is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression...
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  • Redemption Frank Darabont 1994 24 National Velvet Clarence Brown 1944 25 Sullivan's Travels Preston Sturges 1941 26 The Wizard of Oz Victor Fleming 1939 27 High...
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