1. Preston Sturges: 10 essential films - BFI
Feb 5, 2016 · Preston Sturges: 10 essential films · The Power and the Glory (1933) · The Good Fairy (1935) · Easy Living (1937) · Remember the Night (1940) · The ...
Across both his early screenplays and the classic run of screwball comedies he later made as director, here are 10 of the best places to get that Preston Sturges feeling.
2. Preston Sturges | Biography, Movies, Assessment, & Facts - Britannica
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Preston Sturges, American motion-picture director, screenwriter, and playwright best known for a series of hugely popular satirical comedies that he made in the early 1940s. He went from being one of Hollywood’s most in-demand scenarists to its first prominent writer-director.
3. About Preston Sturges | American Masters - PBS
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Considered the father of the screwball comedy, Preston Sturges was recognized as one of the great early writers in Hollywood. Sturges was born in 1898 in
4. Preston Sturges: More Than Comedy - BAMPFA
Preston Sturges provided the sparkling script for this rarely seen comedy. Margaret Sullavan plays a movie usherette, who, to deflect the amorous attentions of ...
“The most brilliant and bizarre bursts of creation in cinema history.” —Andrew Sarris The first writer-director of Hollywood’s sound era, given unprecedented permission to translate onto celluloid a script entirely of his own devising, Preston Sturges went into production on his first feature, the uproariously cynical fable of big-city politics The Great McGinty, in December 1939.
5. Preston Sturges - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
Featuring razor-sharp wit and astringent dialogue, writer-director Preston Sturges ranked as one of American cinema's most gifted creative talents.
Featuring razor-sharp wit and astringent dialogue, writer-director Preston Sturges ranked as one of American cinema's most gifted creative talents. After emerging from the theater world, Sturges almost singlehandedly redefined the screwball comedy as a director, while getting his start as a...
6. 'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son
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In a revealing new biography, Tom Sturges looks back on the life of his writer-director father despite barely knowing him
7. Preston Sturges | Rotten Tomatoes
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Explore the filmography of Preston Sturges on Rotten Tomatoes! Discover ratings, reviews, and more. Click for details!
8. Hollywood's Deep-Dish Comedian: A Preston Sturges Retrospective
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Programmed by Robert Bornholz
9. The Profound Surfaces of Preston Sturges | The New Yorker
Apr 3, 2023 · Sturges, who won for “The Great McGinty”—a satire about a poor man, in an unnamed American city, who fails upward until he becomes governor—wasn ...
For the filmmaker and master of the screwball comedy, how we presented ourselves was far more interesting than our inner feelings.
10. The Early Sturges: Preston Sturges Screenplays, 1930-1939 | PopMatters
Apr 8, 2005 · Preston Sturges' first directorial effort, The Great McGinty, was released in 1940. He hit the ground running, directing eight movies ...
Preston Sturges' first directorial effort, The Great McGinty, was released in 1940.
11. On Preston Sturges - Too Much Art
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Preston Sturges; courtesy Film Forum * * * Preston Sturges, the writer and director who is being feted with a retrospective at New York City’s Film Forum, lived a life that could have prompted its …
12. Directed by Preston Sturges - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
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Tuesday, May 9 | 5 MoviesIn the 1930s and 1940s, Preston Sturges’ career as a writer-director made him one of the highest-paid people in the United States. Ten years later, his career was all but over, but he left behind some of the best comedies of the Golden Age of Hollywood, seven of which were
13. The comedies of Preston Sturges w/ Anthony Esolen - Catholic Culture
Mar 28, 2022 · Poet, translator and cultural commentator Anthony Esolen joins James and Thomas to discuss one of his favorite filmmakers in the genre of “screwball comedy”, ...
Poet, translator and cultural commentator Anthony Esolen joins James and Thomas to discuss one of his favorite comedy filmmakers, Preston Sturges.
14. The Seven Wonders of Preston Sturges - Go Into The Story
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If there is one person to whom we can point as writing and selling the first feature length spec script, it’s Preston Sturges. The year was 1933 and the script was The Power and the Glory. Directed…
15. PRESTON STURGES (1898-1959) - Pangborn on Film
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The rip-roaring, populist satires of Preston Sturges embody the rich and shady entrepreneurial spirit of America. Whether his opportunistic heroes and heroines stuff a ballot box, enter a jingle contest, scheme to bag a rich husband or a spirited gal, create films of social significance or even invent an anesthesia for painless operations, they remain among the cinema’s most charming, self-advancing iconoclasts.
