Preston Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director...
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known to be related to Preston Sturges. Sturges started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932. During World War II, Sturges directed documentaries...
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in France, Sturges is one of only seven Americans baptized at Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris. Sturges is the third son of Preston Sturges, the Hollywood...
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primetime soap opera Savannah. Sturges was born in Hollywood, California, and is the daughter of actor Solomon Sturges and actress Colette Jackson, and...
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The Great McGinty (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
1940 American political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest...
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Actors who frequently worked with film director Preston Sturges:...
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July: the life and art of Preston Sturges. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 123–4. ISBN 0520079264. "Mrs. E.H. Sturges Engaged to Wed; | Former...
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Christmas in July (film) (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Dick Powell and Ellen Drew. Based on Sturges' unproduced 1931 play A Cup of Coffee...
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Alfred Hitchcock's espionage thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), Preston Sturges' comedy classics Sullivan's Travels (1941), and The Palm Beach Story...
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The Lady Eve (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. The film is based on...
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Sullivan's Travels (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy...
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The Palm Beach Story (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
Beach Story is a 1942 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor and Rudy Vallée...
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Easy Living (1937 film) (category Films with screenplays by Preston Sturges)
American screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold...
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La Cava Mitchell Leisen Ernst Lubitsch Leo McCarey George Stevens Preston Sturges W. S. Van Dyke Billy Wilder Later films thought to have revived elements...
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Torben Meyer (section Preston Sturges films)
The Life and Art of Preston Sturges, page 253, University of California Press, 1992 Alessandro Paroling, The Cinema of Preston Sturges: A Critical Study...
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p. 367. ISBN 0-240-80410-4. Sturges, Preston; Sturges, Sandy (adapt. & ed.) (1991), Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges, Boston: Faber & Faber, ISBN 0-571-16425-0...
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Lloyd, William A. Wellman, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, Preston Sturges, Charles Vidor, Billy Wilder, Clarence Brown, William Castle, George...
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name for "Odysseus". The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who...
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author Preston Sturges (1898–1959), American film director and writer Ralph W. Sturges (1918–2007), American Mohegan tribal chief Robert Sturges (1891–1970)...
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Hail the Conquering Hero (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
Hero (1944) is a satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, and featuring...
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The Great Moment (1944 film) (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
The Great Moment is a 1944 biographical film written and directed by Preston Sturges. Based on the book Triumph Over Pain (1940) by René Fülöp-Miller, it...
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Remember the Night (category Films with screenplays by Preston Sturges)
Leisen. The film was written by Preston Sturges and was the last of his scripts shot by another director, as Sturges began his own directorial career...
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director of The Invisible Man with a new script being written by Preston Sturges. Sturges' script involved a Russian chemist who makes a madman invisible...
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comedies of the 1930s by directors like Frank Capra, Leo McCarey, and Preston Sturges, which often satirized social constructs and social classes, reflecting...
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The French, They Are a Funny Race (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
Major Thompson) is a 1955 French comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, based on the 1954 novel Les Carnets du Major Thompson by Pierre Daninos...
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Thomas. The film was written by Garrett Fort, Robert Presnell Sr. and Preston Sturges, who provided the dialogue in his first Hollywood assignment, and was...
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director. He then became an assistant director, most notably working for Preston Sturges. His directorial debut was Dr. Broadway (1942). He directed several...
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George Gershwin composed An American in Paris. Sturges, Preston. - p. 195, Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words. (1990). Simon & Schuster...
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Preston Sturges and as a member of a troupe of actors whom Sturges repeatedly cast in his screen projects. He appeared in 10 films written by Sturges...
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The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (category Films directed by Preston Sturges)
Creek is a 1944 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn...
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