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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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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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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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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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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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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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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