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	American Masters . Preston Sturges \| PBS
		Sturges was born in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois.
		When Preston was still an infant, she left his father and later pursued a career as a singer.
		Sturges will long be remembered for the complexity and sophistication he brought to some of the most inspired comedies ever made.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/sturges_p.html (656 words)

	Sturges Emerges
		Unfaithfully Yours, another Sturges gem, mercilessly satirizes the life of a world-famous symphony conductor, It is considered the last truly successful Sturges created movie.Rex Harrison has all the tools to portray Sir Alfred de Carter to an absolutely snooty tee.
		Preston Sturges himself is most successful wading through the desperation of the times, feeding off the festering carrion of a damaged country.
		As the war years were over, Sturges found that his well of creativity had been virtually consumed by the fire with which he led his life and poured forth his movies.
	www.filmsondisc.com /Features/sturges/sturges.htm (3070 words)

	Sturges, Preston - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sturges moved (1932) to Hollywood and began to turn out screenplays, both for dramas and sparkling comedies.
		Sturges satirized many sacred cows in the witty, unsentimental, and stylish movies he wrote and directed during the 1940s.
		Preston Sturges revival long overdue: Director was master of satire, comedy.(Arts)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-sturgesp.html (409 words)

	Sturges
		In time Preston would give up the name Biden and become officially a 'Sturges' when his mother and Solomon were married during the autumn of 1901 in Memphis, Tennessee.
		It was obvious that Preston did not enjoy the presence of Aleister Crowley and actually disliked him, in later years he would call Crowley "a sinister buffoon...
		In the case of Mary Sturges there was a slight twist to the ritual.
	www.redflame93.com /Sturges.html (1793 words)

	Preston Sturges
		Sturges urges his fellow Americans to not just naturally assume that they are morally superior to their foes due to certain unassailable national beliefs (10).
		Preston Sturges' heyday was as brief and spectacular as the decline of his career would be protracted and painful.
		Sturges was not allowed anything resembling the artistic control he had enjoyed with the company since McGinty, and the final result could not be said to be that of a coherent or personal work (13).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/sturges.html (6943 words)

	MMI Special Report - Preston Sturges On Video
		Critics of writer-director Preston Sturges are quick to point out that his hey-day in Hollywood (Beginning with his 1940 Oscar win for writing "The Great McGinty") was virtually over by 1944 when he was nominated for writing "Hail The Conquering Hero" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek".
		Sturges, who had spent ten years toiling as a Paramount screenwriter, offered the studio his excellent script for a nominal fee, but only if he could direct himself.
		By the time the Oscar nominations for both of these blockbuster films were announced in 1945, Sturges was off the Paramount lot, as a result of the one flop of his career to date; "The Great Moment" which had been shelved for two years before the studio decided to release it anyway.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/sturges.html (573 words)

	Lady Eve (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sturges spent much of his youth being shipped between the proper, tailored suit world of his father, and the Grecian-robed Bohemia of his mother, Isadora Duncan's best friend, and various European boarding schools.
		Sturges had promised Barbara Stanwyck that he would someday write a comedy for her.
		Sturges used her hilarity, patiently stopping the camera when she laughed, and starting where he'd left off, from a slightly different angle.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDLadyEve.htm (1057 words)

	Preston Sturges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, Sturges may have been the first to be promoted as such by the studios for publicity.
		Over the next several years, Sturges continued to write, but many of the projects were underfunded or stillborn, and those that emerged did not approach the same success as his earlier triumphs.
		Sturges died of a heart attack at the Algonquin Hotel while writing his autobiography, and was interred in the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preston_Sturges (2238 words)

	Preston Sturges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		'''Preston Sturges''' (August 29, 1898-August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a screenwriter and director born in Chicago.
		Perhaps more impressively, Sturges received two screenwriting Oscar nominations in the same year, for 1944's "Hail the Conquering Hero" and "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek." Though he enjoyed a 30-year Hollywood career, the greatest of Sturges' comedies were filmed in a furious 5-year burst of activity.
		Sturges liked to reuse Many of the same character actors, such as William Demarest, Byron Foulger, Victor Potel, Robert Grieg, Charles R. Moore, Robert Warwick, or Franklin Pangborn, giving him what amounted to a regular troupe even within the studio system.
	preston-sturges.iqnaut.net (420 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek: DVD: Preston Sturges,Eddie Bracken,Al Bridge,Jan Buckingham,Georgia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Sturges' superb ear for dialogue is in evidence throughout, as is his knack for bringing out the best in his cast: Betty Hutton gives the best and funniest performance of her career, while Eddie Bracken's work is rivaled only by his turn in Sturges' other 1944 masterpiece, Hail the Conquering Hero.
		Sturges was a veteran of WWI, and when the second one broke out he told an acquaintance that he wasn't going to fall for the same line twice.
		Sturges may have been playing with the morals of the time, but he was nonetheless a traditionalist himself.
	www.amazon.ca /Miracle-Morgans-Creek-Preston-Sturges/dp/B0009W5J78 (1690 words)

	The Official Preston Sturges Site
		Preston Sturges was one of America's great filmmakers.
		These are precise reproductions of the original shooting script including the intitials of the secretary who typed the page and the date she typed it.
		Sturges wrote his stage directions with as much fervor and intelligence as his dialogue.
	www.prestonsturges.com /main.html (368 words)

	PopMatters Film Feature \| The Early Sturges: Preston Sturges Screenplays, 1930-1939
		Where Sturges' directing reveals a confident comedic personality, his early screenplays reveal an artist who could cover versatile terrain as the job demanded, comfortable in genres ranging from tragedy, musicals, and historical dramas, to horror and screwball comedy.
		Sturges was born outside Chicago into an upper class family.
		Sturges had nothing to do with it; he was busy writing a series of Broadway flops.
	popmatters.com /film/features/050408-prestonsturges.shtml (1443 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Preston Sturges Retrospective
		TO TAKE the angst out of the holiday season, a half-dozen Preston Sturges comedies are being revived at the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto during the next month (on double bills with a Katharine Hepburn retrospective already under way).
		Both Sturges and Welles were "boy wonders," writer-producer-directors whose careers were neatly matched in time by studio disfavor and European exile.
		Sturges can be somewhat inhuman in his comedy; he's not warm-hearted, and he wasn't above racist gags--as exemplified by an eye-rolling comedian named Snowflake.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.14.96/preston-sturges-9646.html (682 words)

	Preston Sturges: A Selected Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		"Preston Sturges." In: The cinema of cruelty : from Bunuel to Hitchcock / by Andre Bazin ; edited and with an introduction by Francois...
		Sturges' movies were some of the best sex movies though there was very little sex in them.
		Sturges combined wit, satire, farce and slapstick, and directed it toward an educated audience in such movies as 'The Lady Eve' and 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.' Sturges' talent was partly the result of an unusual childhood that included a bizarre mother and many changes of schools and residences." [Magazine Index]
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/sturges.html (2283 words)

	Preston Sturges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The son of a socially prominent couple, Sturges had a cosmopolitan upbringing throughout Europe and America, and served in the Air Corps during World War I. He worked for a time in his mother's cosmetics company before moving into other fields, including inventing.
		Sturges then got some experience writing screen dialogue and became a scriptwriter in 1933.
		A superb writer and dazzling stylist in his prime, Sturges' reputation loomed larger even decades later, all the more amazing considering that it rested principally on a half-dozen pictures made during a relatively short period of time.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P113144 (453 words)

	Preston Sturges - Wal-Mart
		Preston Sturges was the great writer and director of Hollywood screwball comedies of the thirties and forties.
		At the height of his career, Sturges had not only won an Academy Award but was also one of the most highly paid executives in the country.
		The only account of his life in his own words, Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges unveils the source of his extraordinary creativity: a life that was every bit as antic and unconventional as his movies.
	www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=389476 (643 words)

	USHE Press Release: Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection - Home Theater Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Preston Sturges' unique, witty and timeless comedies combine razor-sharp dialogue with laugh-out-loud slapstick to create fast-paced romps that remain as fresh and funny as the day they were first released.
		Sturges' meteoric Hollywood career was fueled by an infinite talent for wordplay, an exuberantly irreverent sense of humor and remarkable insight into the human condition.
		Preston Sturges: The Filmmaker Collection includes his directorial debut The Great McGinty, with which Sturges made Hollywood history by becoming the first writer to direct his own script and winning the first Academy Award given for Best Original Screenplay.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htf/showthread.php?p=2972706 (1353 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control: Preston Sturges: Drunk and Shooting Up Trains
		It earned Sturges not only his first "written and directed by" credit (something never before achieved by a screenwriter), but also critical acclaim, a Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1941, and ultimately the right to continue making the pictures he wanted, as nonconformist and non-Hollywood as they may have been.
		Of course, as cosmic jokes go, it's a real thigh-slapper, and with Sturges doing the telling, you can count on the delivery to be recklessly fast, hopelessly irreverent, and packed to the gills with as much biting satire and as many goofballs and pratfalls as 100 minutes of film can carry.
		Sturges' comedies don't just zip along, they race, at a pace that can give you whiplash.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:75529 (1360 words)

	PRESTON STURGES
		His mother divorced his father in 190l and married Solomon Sturges, who adopted him, and Edmund Preston his name is changed to Preston Sturges.
		1914, Preston, is sent to manage the newly opened seaside branch of the Maison Desti in Deauville, France; with the outbreak of WWI in Europe, he is sent back to the US.
		Sturges followed this by writing and directing a
	cla.calpoly.edu /~rsimon/Hum410/Sturges.htm (869 words)

	Laugh with us and win the Preston Sturges Collection
		Preston Sturges brilliant satire is considered one of the finest movies about Hollywood film-making ever made.
		Preston Sturges assisted in a rewrite of the screenplay for a 1956 remake, entitled “The Birds And The Bees,” which starred David Niven and Mitzi Gaynor.
		Sturges believed that Paramount treated the film unkindly (it was recut and kept on the shelf for two years) and this lead to the ultimate break-up of their relationship.
	dvd.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_9803.php/Laugh_with_us_and_win_the_Preston_Sturges_Collection (1154 words)

	Amazon.com: Hail the Conquering Hero / Movie: Video: Eddie Bracken,Ella Raines,Raymond Walburn,William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Between 1940 and 1944, Preston Sturges was on a role.
		Preston Sturges' 1944 farce "Hail the Conquering Hero" tells the story of Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken), who is discharged from the Marines because he has Hay Fever.
		On the one hand, because this is Preston Sturges we realize this film is a rather pointed examination of the cult of hero worship that can spring up around mere mortals.
	www.amazon.com /Hail-Conquering-Movie-Preston-Sturges/dp/6301805046 (2208 words)

	California Pictures: Howard Hughes and Preston Sturges
		California Pictures, formed in partnership with writer - producer - director Preston Sturges, was one of Hughes many independent stints in Hollywood, as well as his final independent production venture before he took over RKO in 1948.
		Like Hughes, Sturges was a successful entrepreneur — operating his own engineering company and restaurant-nightclub — all on the side of a brilliant film career.
		Sturges rose to prominence as a screenwriter for the major studios in the 1930s.
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/howard_hughes.htm (1519 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Miracle Man: Actor Eddie Bracken on Preston Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and ...
		The only thing that Sturges had in [the script for the Norval Jones character] were the spots and the hay fever to keep him out of the service; I added a St. Vitus' Dance and the real sneeze routine and the nervousness and the excitement.
		Sturges didn't know she was gonna do it, I didn't know she was gonna do it, but it was right on.
		So Sturges added a line for the military, where Frank Moran says, "If I drank as much sarsparilla as you guys did, I'd have a hangover myself." And that was all right; the Marine Corps took that as okay.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-02-18/screens_feature.html (4439 words)

	In Focus
		In 1939, when Preston Sturges was casting for his directorial debut The Great McGinty (1940), budget constraints ensured that most of the players would be virtually unknown.
		Preston Sturges went back to this group supporting actors again and again.
		Preston Sturges was often compared (favorably for the most part) to Frank Capra, his contemporary, as well as the most famous comedy director of the time.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/in_focus.asp?id=7 (417 words)

	Three More Screenplays by Preston Sturges
		The publication by the University of California Press of Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges and Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges has been applauded by cinephiles and admirers of the director's work, and recognized as a major contribution to the history of American cinema.
		The scripts reveal Sturges in top form as a writer of dialogue and prove beyond any possible doubt his authorship of the films, which frequently appear indistinguishable on-screen from those he himself directed.
		In his substantial introduction to the volume, film historian and screenplay writer Andrew Horton analyzes the contributions of Sturges to the film comedy genre and to Hollywood film history.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/7063.html (402 words)

	Preston Sturges Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was the first writer-turned-director in the history of talking movies, and one of the greatest film directors of any variety.
		Preston Sturges was born Edmund Preston Biden on August 29, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois.
		By 1900, two years after Edmund Preston was born, his parents had divorced.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/preston-sturges (140 words)

	The Story of California Pictures: Preston Sturges and Howard Hughes
		Director Preston Sturges gives his account of the partnership with Howard Hughes.
		Sturges also relates the Hughes incident described by SIMPP member William Cagney.
		Preston Sturges (in 1946) and "the rented horse that cost me a movie company."
	www.cobbles.com /simpp_archive/prestonsturges_california.htm (468 words)

	Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels (1941) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In this "screwball comedy," writer-director Preston Sturges lampoons the earnestness of John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath and still tells a moving story of the impact of the Great Depression on hte so-called "Lost Men" of the era.
		By the end of the film, Sturges has made an eloquent plea for the importance of popular culture in the lives of Americans.
		The Official Preston Sturges Website, celebrating the centenary of his birth.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/sturges.html (268 words)

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