Joel McCrea
John L. Sullivan
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- 1942 · Comedy · 1h 31m
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 director ( Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film. Along the way he unites with a poor ...
- Jess Lee Brooks
Jess Lee Brooks (June 10, 1894 – December 13, 1944), also...
- Torben Meyer
Early life. Meyer was born in Aarhus, Denmark and began his...
- Jess Lee Brooks
Sullivan's Travels: Directed by Preston Sturges. With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest. 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.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Drama
- Preston Sturges
- 1942-02-06
Lee Pfeiffer. 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.
- Lee Pfeiffer
Hollywood movie director John Sullivan is tired of making lightweight comedies and musicals and decides to go on the road, posing as a hobo to learn how the poor live. Those around him think he's mad but he sets off with only 10 cents in his pocket. He has several false starts, always ending up back in Hollywood.
Sullivan’s Travels. 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. After his producers point out that he knows nothing of hardship, Sullivan hits the road disguised as a hobo.
- John L. Sullivan
Dec 3, 2022. Oct 25, 2022. Successful movie director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and ...
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- Comedy
May 8, 2021 · It's been a very long time since I've seen Preston Sturges' masterpiece, "Sullivan's Travels." Watching it again on Mother's Day weekend (my mother had never seen it) reminded me of the fickle nature of memory, when it comes to movies. That image of Joel McCrae watching a cartoon with his fellow inmates is what sticks…
