Sullivan's Travels
1942
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- 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...
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 ...
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- Shannon Sturges (granddaughter)
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Preston Sturges (; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty, his first of three nominations in the category. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to ...
Apr 3, 2023 · In 1941, when Preston Sturges, the master of the screwball comedy, won the first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, he stumbled onstage and attempted a joke. Sturges, who won for “The ...
Oct 23, 2018 · A roundup of some of playwright and early Hollywood screwball comedy writer-director Preston Sturges’s films, including The Great McGinty, Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels ...
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May 14, 2013 · Sturges, Preston, 1898-1959; Henderson, Brian. Publication date 1985 Topics American cinema films Scripts Publisher Berkeley ; London : University of California ...
Feb 12, 2016 · I t was a sprint worthy of his greatest farces: between 1937 and 1944, Preston Sturges made some of the funniest films Hollywood ever produced, ... Always fighting to control his own scripts, he ...
