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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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