1. Preston Sturges | American Masters - PBS
Playwright, filmmaker. Aug 29, 1898 - Aug 6, 1959. Known for Screwball comedy scripts; won the first Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for The Great McGinty; ...
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2. Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Drawing on clips from his films, commentary from friends, family and associates, and rare recordings and footage of Sturges himself, this documentary ...
Preston Sturges, the creator of eight dazzling, completely distinctive comedies during a four-year period at Paramount, was, along with Orson Welles, the reigning Hollywood genius of the 1940s. His films, including "The Lady Eve," "Sullivan's Travels," "The Palm Beach Story," "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "Hail the Conquering Hero," are packed with sophistication, astonishing circumventions of the censorship code and an ironic view of American values. He changed the face of Hollywood forever by becoming the first screenwriter to break through as a successful director. But Sturges' star fell as quickly as it rose, and this film explores the perplexing reasons for his decline. Drawing on clips from his films, commentary from friends, family and associates, and rare recordings and footage of Sturges himself, this documentary captures the man's outsized personality and draws unexpected parallels between his extraordinary life and works.
3. Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer - TCM
A documentary about director, screenwriter and playwright Preston Sturges. The program includes extensive clips from Sturges's feature films as well as ...
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4. American Masters #501; Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of An ...
This documentary profile examines Sturges' witty and urbane style and includes interviews with Barbara Stanwyck, Rex Harrison, Joel McCrea, Billy Wilder, ...
Director Preston Sturges' films of the 1940s -- "The Great McGinty," "The Lady Eve," "The Palm Beach Story," and "Sullivan's Travels" -- parodied American politics, sex, advertising, and hero worship and established Sturges as a brilliant satirist. But when he left Paramount for a disastrous association with Howard Hughes, his box office appeal waned and his career plummeted. This documentary profile examines Sturges' witty and urbane style and includes interviews with Barbara Stanwyck, Rex Harrison, Joel McCrea, Billy Wilder, Claudette Colbert and Bob Hope, among others. Preston Sturges, the creator of eight dazzling, completely distinctive comedies during a four-year period at Paramount, was, along with Orson Welles, the reigning Hollywood genius of the 1940s. His films, including "The Lady Eve," "Sullivan's Travels," "The Palm Beach Story," "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" and "Hail the Conquering Hero," are packed with sophistication, astonishing circumventions of the censorship code and an ironic view of American values. He changed the face of Hollywood forever by becoming the first screenwriter to break through as a successful director. But Sturges' star fell as quickly as it rose, and this film explores the perplexing reasons for his decline. Drawing on clips from his films, commentary from friends, family and associates, and rare recordings and footage of Sturges himself, this documentary captures the man's outsized personality and draws unexpected parallels between hi...
5. The Profound Surfaces of Preston Sturges | The New Yorker
Apr 3, 2023 · Take “The Lady Eve,” perhaps Sturges's most beloved film, in which Henry Fonda plays Charles (Hopsie) Pike, a lanky heir to an ale fortune who ...
For the filmmaker and master of the screwball comedy, how we presented ourselves was far more interesting than our inner feelings.
6. Preston Sturges - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
Miracle Of Morgan's Creek, The (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Swaffled Or Something! Family & Companions. Read More. Estelle Mudge Godfrey. Wife.
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7. Preston Sturges: More Than Comedy - BAMPFA
The Great McGinty ... Preston Sturges's ferociously funny attack on the American political system is a twist on the Abe Lincoln myth: even a bum, backed by the ...
“The most brilliant and bizarre bursts of creation in cinema history.” —Andrew Sarris
8. The Best Years of Preston Sturges
Apr 18, 2024 · Whatever the actual sum of Paramount's payment to Sturges, the resulting film—1940's The Great McGinty, starring Brian Donlevy—was considered a ...
Sturges was fortunate to operate in an era of peak popularity for the screwball comedy, but the films he was competing against tended to be simpler, broader, and safer.
