Sullivan's Travels
1942
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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.
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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...
This comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges is among the finest Hollywood satires and a high-water mark in the career of one of the industry’s most revered funnymen. 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 ...
- John L. Sullivan
Nov 29, 2006 · An inventor of unprecedented and unequalled American movie farces in the early 1940s, Preston Sturges packed the frames of his comedies of ideas with unruly Dickensian character actors that he used in film after film: always-suspicious William Demarest, fuming pansy Franklin Pangborn, louche lady Esther Howard, pompous windbag Raymond Walburn ...
Preston Sturges - The Filmmaker Collection (Sullivan's Travels/The Lady Eve/The Palm Beach Story/Hail the Conquering Hero/The Great McGinty/Christmas in July/The Great Moment) Format: DVD. $6998.
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Dec 15, 2006 · Critic at-large John Powers reviews Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection, a new DVD set of classic 1940s Preston Sturges films. Titles include The Palm Beach Story, The Lady Eve and...
