Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. In recent years, film scholars such as Alessandro Pirolini have also argued that Sturges' cinema anticipated more experimental narratives by contemporary directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen, Robert Zemeckis, and Woody Allen, along with prolific The Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder: "Many of [Sturges'] movies and screenplays reveal a restless and impatient attempt to escape codified rules and narrative schemata, and to push the mechanisms and conventions of their genre to the extent of unveiling them to the spectator. [See for example] the disruption of standardized timelines in films such as The Power and the Glory and The Great McGinty [or the way] an apparently classical comedy such as Unfaithfully Yours (1948) shifts into the realm of multiple and hypothetical narratives. Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (such as Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts. However, Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to be initially mainly successfully established as a screenwriter and then to subsequently move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were mostly entrenched and separate. Famously, Sturges sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $1, in return for being allowed to direct the film; the sum was quietly raised to $10 by the studio for legal reasons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Preston Sturges, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Preston Sturges
  • Popularity: 2.16
  • Known For: Writing
  • Birthday: 1898-08-29
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Preston Sturges Movies

  • 1958
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    Paris Holiday

    Paris Holiday

    5.2 1958 HD

    Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European...

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  • 1940
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    Christmas in July

    Christmas in July

    7 1940 HD

    An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...

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  • 1942
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    Star Spangled Rhythm

    Star Spangled Rhythm

    5.9 1942 HD

    Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

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  • 1990
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    Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

    Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

    6 1990 HD

    Documentary about the life and work of film director Preston Sturges.

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  • 1941
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    The Lady Eve

    The Lady Eve

    7.227 1941 HD

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  • 1941
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    The Lady Eve

    The Lady Eve

    7.227 1941 HD

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  • 1984
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    Unfaithfully Yours

    Unfaithfully Yours

    5.5 1984 HD

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  • 1947
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    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    6.2 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    6.2 1947 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Palm Beach Story

    The Palm Beach Story

    7 1942 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Palm Beach Story

    The Palm Beach Story

    7 1942 HD

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  • 1948
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    Unfaithfully Yours

    Unfaithfully Yours

    7.2 1948 HD

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  • 1948
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    Unfaithfully Yours

    Unfaithfully Yours

    7.2 1948 HD

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  • 1948
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    Unfaithfully Yours

    Unfaithfully Yours

    7.2 1948 HD

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  • 1940
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    Christmas in July

    Christmas in July

    7 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    Christmas in July

    Christmas in July

    7 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty

    7 1940 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Great Moment

    The Great Moment

    5.8 1944 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Great Moment

    The Great Moment

    5.8 1944 HD

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  • 1940
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    Remember the Night

    Remember the Night

    7.4 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    The Great McGinty

    The Great McGinty

    7 1940 HD

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  • 1944
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    Hail the Conquering Hero

    Hail the Conquering Hero

    7 1944 HD

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  • 1944
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    Hail the Conquering Hero

    Hail the Conquering Hero

    7 1944 HD

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  • 1943
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    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    6.8 1943 HD

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  • 1943
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    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    6.8 1943 HD

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  • 1943
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    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek

    6.8 1943 HD

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  • 1941
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    Sullivan's Travels

    Sullivan's Travels

    7.4 1941 HD

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  • 1937
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    Easy Living

    Easy Living

    7 1937 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    5.8 1949 HD

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  • 1938
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    If I Were King

    If I Were King

    6.8 1938 HD

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  • 1939
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    6.8 1939 HD

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  • 1955
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    The French, They Are a Funny Race

    The French, They Are a Funny Race

    5 1955 HD

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  • 1938
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    Port of Seven Seas

    Port of Seven Seas

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1934
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    Thirty Day Princess

    Thirty Day Princess

    6.8 1934 HD

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  • 1942
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    Safeguarding Military Information

    Safeguarding Military Information

    5 1942 HD

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  • 1935
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    Diamond Jim

    Diamond Jim

    6 1935 HD

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  • 1934
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    We Live Again

    We Live Again

    6.5 1934 HD

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  • 1942
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    Safeguarding Military Information

    Safeguarding Military Information

    5 1942 HD

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  • 1933
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    Child of Manhattan

    Child of Manhattan

    8 1933 HD

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  • 1956
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    The Birds and the Bees

    The Birds and the Bees

    6.8 1956 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    5.8 1949 HD

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  • 1949
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    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

    5.8 1949 HD

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  • 1955
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    The French, They Are a Funny Race

    The French, They Are a Funny Race

    5 1955 HD

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  • 1930
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    The Big Pond

    The Big Pond

    5.875 1930 HD

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  • 1947
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    I'll Be Yours

    I'll Be Yours

    6 1947 HD

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  • 1937
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    Hotel Haywire

    Hotel Haywire

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1933
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    The Invisible Man

    The Invisible Man

    7.5 1933 HD

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  • 1936
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    Love Before Breakfast

    Love Before Breakfast

    5.8 1936 HD

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  • 1941
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    Sullivan's Travels

    Sullivan's Travels

    7.4 1941 HD

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  • 1947
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    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    The Sin of Harold Diddlebock

    6.2 1947 HD

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  • 1931
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    Strictly Dishonorable

    Strictly Dishonorable

    5.1 1931 HD

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  • 1935
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    The Good Fairy

    The Good Fairy

    6.9 1935 HD

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  • 1934
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    Twentieth Century

    Twentieth Century

    6.763 1934 HD

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  • 1938
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    College Swing

    College Swing

    6.8 1938 HD

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  • 1942
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    I Married a Witch

    I Married a Witch

    6.9 1942 HD

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  • 1933
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    The Power and the Glory

    The Power and the Glory

    5.8 1933 HD

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  • 1933
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    They Just Had to Get Married

    They Just Had to Get Married

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1958
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    Rock-a-Bye Baby

    Rock-a-Bye Baby

    6.8 1958 HD

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  • 1954
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    Reflets de Cannes

    Reflets de Cannes

    1 1954 HD

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