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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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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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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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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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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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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