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Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges was an American playwright, inventor, screenwriter, and film director.
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Born 29 August 1898 · Died 6 August 1959 · Q546204
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2026· 3 entries
“Three Hundred Words of Humor”
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Wilcox Newspapers: Eymer reflects on time as director at Sturges-Young
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2024· 1 entry
collider: This Preston Sturges Screwball Comedy's Bonkers Twist Ending Will Make You Do a Double Take
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2023· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Crooked, but Never Common’ Review: The Comedy of Preston Sturges
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2022· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Preston Sturges
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2017· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies
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2015· 1 entry
IndieWire: Criticwire Classic of the Week: Preston Sturges’ ‘Sullivan’s Travels’
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1975· 1 entry
Became the first writer to be given the Screen Writers Guild's Laurel Award posthumously
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1959· 2 entries
Died 1959-08-06.
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Sturges summed up his career:
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1951· 1 entry
Marriage ended in 1959 with Sturges's death, mother of his two younger sons
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1950· 1 entry
By RKO, which was by that time owned by Hughes, the retitled Mad Wednesday was no more successful than Sturges's original version
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1942· 2 entries
And Hail the Conquering Hero in 1943, but Paramount was suffering from a surfeit of films
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In his review of The Palm Beach Story, critic Manny Farber wrote:
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1941· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for The Great McGinty (1941).
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Sturges opened the Players, a three-story restaurant and nightclub, at 8225 Sunset Boulevard, across from the Chateau Marmont
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1940· 1 entry
When The Great McGinty came out, it was very new hat indeed; the opening credits proclaimed 'Written and directed by Preston Sturges,' and it was the first time in the history of talkies that the two passive verbs had ap
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1939· 1 entry
By trading his screenplay for The Great McGinty (written six years earlier) to Paramount in exchange for the chance to direct it
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1938· 1 entry
In Reno, Nevada, separated in April 1946, divorced in November 1947
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1929· 1 entry
After first opening locally at The Wharf Theater in Provincetown, Massachusetts; it was a turning point in his career
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1928· 3 entries
Eleanor Close Hutton (a daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post) – eloped on April 12, 1930, marriage annulled on April 12, 1932
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Sturges performed on Broadway in Hotbed, a short-lived play by Paul Osborn
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Sturges's second play, the hit Strictly Dishonorable opened
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1919· 1 entry
Sturges picked up a managing position at the Desti Emporium in New York, a store owned by his mother's fourth husband
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1916· 1 entry
Worked as a runner for New York stock brokers, a position he obtained through Solomon Sturges
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-08-29.
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1871· 1 entry
And died in New York City in 1931, and the traveling salesman Edmund C
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