In 1941, when Preston Sturges, the master of the screwball comedy, won the first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, he stumbled onstage and attempted a joke. Sturges, who won for “The Great ...
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, ...
The Washington Post: What happened to the film career of Preston Sturges? His son investigates.
Is there another Hollywood auteur whose later career fell off so markedly as that of Preston Sturges? From the mid-1930s to the mid-’40s, Sturges tossed off one critical and box-office hit after ...
What happened to the film career of Preston Sturges? His son investigates.
Wall Street Journal: ‘Crooked, but Never Common’ Review: The Comedy of Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges’s film “The Palm Beach Story” (1942) starts with the strains of the William Tell Overture, a maid fainting, a priest waiting exasperatedly at an altar, Joel McCrea hailing a cab in a ...
Los Angeles Times: The son of famed director Preston Sturges searches for the dad he never knew
There is a haunting photograph near the end of the new book “Preston Sturges: The Last Years of Hollywood’s First Writer-Director,” by Nick Smedley and the filmmaker’s youngest son, Tom. It’s a ...
The son of famed director Preston Sturges searches for the dad he never knew
The Guardian: 'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son
'Truth is funnier than anything': the life of Preston Sturges told by his son
The Daily Telegraph: Sad end to Tinseltown’s forgotten king of comedy, Preston Sturges
WHILE we speak of great modern writer-directors such as Tarantino, Spielberg or Cameron, in the ’30s and ’40s one name that stood out was Preston Sturges. Born 120 years ago today, Sturges was the ...
Today at 11:30 AM, the Music Box screens Unfaithfully Yours, a late film by the great satirist Preston Sturges. It isn’t among my favorite of his films—what Dave Kehr calls a “[move] toward a more ...
Daily Breeze: Manhattan Beach resident explores life of his famous father, filmmaker Preston Sturges
When acclaimed filmmaker Preston Sturges died suddenly of heart attack in 1959 at the age of 60, he left behind three children including Tom Sturges, who was only 3 years old at the time. Fast forward ...
Manhattan Beach resident explores life of his famous father, filmmaker Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges' "The Palm Beach Story" is one of the funnies movies ever, and one of four 1940s Sturges comedies to be included in the American Film Institute's 100 Funniest Films of all time. He ...
Moviefone: Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990) - Where to Watch
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Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990) - Where to Watch
collider: This Preston Sturges Screwball Comedy's Bonkers Twist Ending Will Make You Do a Double Take
This Preston Sturges Screwball Comedy's Bonkers Twist Ending Will Make You Do a Double Take
It’s tempting to imagine what might have happened if Preston Sturges had been afforded a directorial career as lengthy as those enjoyed by Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, and Robert ...
IndieWire: Cameron Crowe Clarifies “Kids-Casted” Project; Says It’s Actually A Preston Sturges-Influenced Comedy & He Wants To Work With Thomas Haden Church Again
Cameron Crowe Clarifies “Kids-Casted” Project; Says It’s Actually A Preston Sturges-Influenced Comedy & He Wants To Work With Thomas Haden Church Again
Slate: Now Is the Perfect Time to Stream the Movies of Preston Sturges
Now Is the Perfect Time to Stream the Movies of Preston Sturges
KPFA: Stuart Klawans, “Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges,” 2023
Stuart Klawans, author of “Crooked but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges,” in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky. All the films mentioned in the interview are available streaming either ...
Stuart Klawans, “Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges,” 2023
This month brought news of the death of Anne Margaret (Sandy) Sturges, 79, a name that is a footnote in Hollywood history. She was the fourth and last wife of writer-director Preston Sturges, who died ...
The Virginian-Pilot: On the road with Preston Sturges: “Sullivan’s Travels – Criterion Collection”
COMEDY, drama, mystery – Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels” has it all. Joel McCrea, mostly known for Westerns like “The Virginian” and “Ride the High Country,” plays star Hollywood director John L ...
MinnPost: Six decades before Diablo Cody and ‘Juno,’ Preston Sturges carried unplanned comedy to term
Six decades before Diablo Cody and ‘Juno,’ Preston Sturges carried unplanned comedy to term
As the daughter of actors Colette Jackson and Solomon Sturges IV, and the grandchild of director Preston Sturges, Shannon Sturges quickly found her way in Hollywood. “When I booked my first two ...
Sturges's rule is not based on any sort of optimisation procedure, like the Freedman–Diaconis rule or Scott's rule. It is simply posited based on the approximation of a normal curve by a binomial distribution.
The Sturges Speakeasy is a local, family-run American restaurant and tavern established . Our full service bar has great happy hour specials Monday through Friday where we offer half-off all …
The Sturges Speakeasy is a local, family-run American restaurant and tavern established . Our full service bar has great happy hour specials Monday through Friday where we offer half-off all craft brews on our ever-rotating 16 Taps.
In a revealing new biography, Tom Sturges looks back on the life of his writer-director father despite barely knowing him “If ever a plot needed a twist, this one does.” That’s one of the most arch, ...
Sturges’s screwball comedies play with big ideas and serious themes. So what makes them some of the funniest films ever made? It was a sprint worthy of his greatest farces: between 1937 and 1944, ...