Joel McCrea
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Tired of churning out lightweight comedies, Hollywood director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) decides to make O Brother, Where Art Thou? —a serious, socially responsible film about human suffering.
Sullivan's Travels (1942) -- (Movie Clip) With A Little Sex Joel McCrea (as Sullivan), Robert Warwick (as LeBrand) and Porter Hall (as Hadrian) emerge from a screening for the dazzling single-take first scene from Preston Sturges' Depression comedy Sullivan's Travels 1942.
Sullivan's Travels. Summaries. Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, naive director of fluffy films with a heart of gold, who decides that he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor.
Sullivan’s Travels, American dramedy film, released in 1941, considered by many to be director Preston Sturges’s finest film. The title is taken from Jonathan Swift’s classic tale of self-discovery, Gulliver’s Travels (1726). The plot involves John Lloyd Sullivan (played by Joel McCrea), a pampered.
198. Joel McCrea and sultry Veronica Lake star in this starkly realistic yet highly humorous satire from Oscar winning writer-director Preston Sturges. McCrea plays successful...
Aug 20, 2001 · The sweetest, most generous-hearted satire of the Hollywood film industry the town has ever produced, Sullivan’s Travels was the fourth of the eight films Preston Sturges made during his astonishingly prolific streak between 1940 and 1944.
Jan 13, 2023 · January 13, 2023. In 1941, during the ongoing Depression, the writer and director Preston Sturges—already renowned for his comedies—made a movie about a wealthy director, John L. Sullivan (Joel...
