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The sweetest, most generous-hearted satire of the Hollywood film industry the town has ever produced, Sullivan’s Travels was the fourth of the eight films Preston Sturges made during his astonishingly prolific streak between 1940 and 1944. Deserving of eternal veneration as the first screenwriter to decisively break through as a director, Sturges paved the way for the likes of John Huston ...
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, and so many others.
The only anthology on Preston Sturges, Jaeckle and Kozloff 2015 charts the filmmaker’s contributions to Hollywood cinema, revealing his pivotal status as an early writer-director, exploring his inimitable style, and making a bold case for his ongoing influence today. Jaeckle, Jeff, and Sarah Kozloff, eds. Refocus: The Films of Preston Sturges ...
Jan 31, 2022 · Mitchell’s Leisen’s Remember the Night (1940) is most commonly discussed as the last film Preston Sturges wrote before becoming a director. It is often paired with another film directed by Leisen, Hold Back the Dawn (1941), that represented Billy Wilder’s last script before taking over the directorial reins.
Jan 1, 1990 · I much prefer Preston Sturges on Preston Sturges to James Curtis's biography, Between Flops, in which Sturges comes off as selfish, cantakerous and foolish. Sturges may have been his own worst enemy at times, but Curtis neglects to highlight his many gifts. Fortunately, Preston Sturges makes up for it in this memoir.
Sep 2, 1990 · The people who rave about it are the people who came from somewhere worse,'' wrote Preston Sturges to a friend after his first month as a screenwriter in Hollywood. It was 1932, and the restless ...
One of Hollywood's genuinely legendary directors, Preston Sturges redefined the boundaries and meaning of screen comedy during part of the early '40s.
