Search results
Apr 1, 2010 · It launched Sturges’s remarkable run of seven pictures in four years, the others being: Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan’s ...
- The Power and the Glory (1933) Director: William K. Howard. I did not wish Mr. Howard any hard luck like a bad automobile accident or a seriously broken back or anything like that.
- The Good Fairy (1935) Director: William Wyler. Two weeks before the picture was finished, Willie [Wyler] eloped with Maggie Sullavan. He asked my opinion of the proposed match beforehand, but he must not have heard what I said.”
- Easy Living (1937) Director: Mitchell Leisen. I offered to direct pictures for nothing and even to throw in a script – and my scripts had become quite valuable – for nothing.
- Remember the Night (1940) Director: Mitchell Leisen. At the studio, writing Remember the Night for my new producer, Al Lewin, almost caused me to commit hara-kiri several times, but I postponed it for some later assignment...
- Filmography
- Select Bibliography
- Works Also Cited
- Web Resources
As Director and Screenwriter The 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) Hail the Conquering Hero(1944) The Great Moment(1944) Mad Wednesday(1947) Unfaithfully Yours(1948) The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend(1949) The French They Are a ...
Jay Rozgonyi, Preston Sturges’s Vision of America: Critical Analyses of Fourteen Films, McFarland, Jefferson, 1995. Donald Spoto, Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges, Little Brown, Boston, 1990. The Official Preston Sturges Websitehas a more complete bibliography on the director.
Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, This is Orson Welles, ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum, Da Capo Press, New York, 1998.
The Official Preston Sturges Site Preston Sturges at Reel Classics Hail Preston Sturges Article by Devra Maza for the Writers Guild of America website. Sturges Emerges Article by Stu Kobak for Films on Disc. Film Directors – Articles on the Internet Several online articles can be found here. Click hereto search for Preston Sturges DVDs, videos and ...
Apr 5, 2023 · The Profound Surfaces of Preston Sturges. Rachel Syme at The New Yorker: Klawans, like many before him, notes the echoes of Sturges’s life in his work: the juxtaposition of bohemians and stern squares, the fluency in both American vernacular and European argot, the linking of slapstick and hypocrisy. But he also wants to make this reading ...
- Morgan Meis
Apr 21, 2015 · Only Sturges could make a film that seems like it has an entire act missing and somehow make it feel churlish to even point that out. “The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek” (1944) Proof positive ...
Relatives. Shannon Sturges (granddaughter) Preston Sturges (/ ˈstɜːrdʒɪs /; [1] born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He is credited as being the first screenwriter to find success as a director. Prior to Sturges, other Hollywood directors (such as ...
People also ask
What is Sturges about?
Why do people hate Sturges so much?
Who is Preston Sturges?
Are Preston Sturges movies Weird?
Did Sturges influence the Coen brothers?
What did James Agee say about Sturges?
Feb 25, 2016 · This leaves Sturges as a man of truly underexplored depths in modern film criticism because, even with the moderate acclaim still imposed on his vast and diverse legacy, he remains a woefully ...
