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Preston Sturges

Film Director / Screenwriter / Writer / Playwright / Actor | * 08/29/1898 († 60, 08/06/1959) | Chicago, Illinois (United States of America (USA))
Preston Sturges (born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He is credited as being the first screenwriter to find success as a director. Prior to Sturges, other Hollywood directors (such as Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts; however, Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts. He sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $10 in exchange for directing it. Anthony Lane writes that "To us, that seems old hat, one of the paths by which the ambitious get to run their own show, but back in 1940, when The Great McGinty came out, it was very new hat indeed; the opening credits proclaimed 'Written and directed by Preston Sturges,' and it was the first time in the history of talkies that the two passive verbs had appeared together onscreen. From that conjunction sprang a whole tradition of filmmaking: literate, spiky, defensive, markedly personal, and almost always funn... ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Romance / Love | Drama

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Awards & Nominations for Preston Sturges

Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Star On Hollywood Walk of Fame 3x Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Movies with Preston Sturges as Actor(4)

as Serge Vitry1958 Paris Holiday
as himself1942 Star Spangled Rhythm
as Man at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)1940 Christmas in July

Movies with Preston Sturges as Crew(53)

Writing/Original Film Writer1984 Unfaithfully Yours
Writing/Story1958 Rock-a-Bye Baby
Directing/Director1955 The French, They Are a Funny Race
Directing/Director1948 Unfaithfully Yours
Production/Producer1948 Unfaithfully Yours
Writing/Screenplay1948 Unfaithfully Yours
Writing/Writer1947 I'll Be Yours
Directing/Director1947 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Production/Producer1947 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Writing/Screenplay1947 The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
Directing/Director1944 Hail the Conquering Hero
Writing/Writer1944 Hail the Conquering Hero
Directing/Director1944 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Production/Producer1944 The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
Directing/Director1944 The Great Moment
Writing/Screenplay1944 The Great Moment
Directing/Director1942 The Palm Beach Story
Writing/Screenplay1942 The Palm Beach Story
Production/Producer1942 I Married a Witch
Directing/Director1941 Sullivan's Travels
Writing/Writer1941 Sullivan's Travels
Directing/Director1941 Safeguarding Military Information
Directing/Director1941 The Lady Eve
Writing/Screenplay1941 The Lady Eve
Directing/Director1940 The Great McGinty
Writing/Writer1940 The Great McGinty
Writing/Screenplay1940 Remember the Night
Directing/Director1940 Christmas in July
Writing/Writer1940 Christmas in July
Writing/Screenplay1939 Never Say Die
Writing/Writer1938 If I Were King
Writing/Writer1938 Port of Seven Seas
Writing/Screenplay1938 College Swing
Writing/Writer1937 Hotel Haywire
Writing/Screenplay1937 Easy Living
Writing/Writer1936 Love Before Breakfast
Writing/Writer1935 Diamond Jim
Writing/Screenplay1935 The Good Fairy
Writing/Writer1934 Twentieth Century
Writing/Adaptation1934 We Live Again
Writing/Screenplay1934 Thirty Day Princess
Writing/Screenplay1933 The Power and the Glory
Writing/Writer1933 The Invisible Man
Writing/Theatre Play1933 Child of Manhattan
Writing/Writer1933 They Just Had to Get Married
Writing/Theatre Play1931 Strictly Dishonorable
Writing/Dialogue1930 The Big Pond

Full Name: Preston Edmund Biden
Born: Monday, 08/29 1898 (August) in Chicago, Illinois (United States of America (USA))
Died: Thursday, 08/06 1959 (August) in New York City (aged: 60)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
Spouses (current/former): Eleanor Post Hutton
Children: Tom Sturges, Solomon Sturges
Other names for Preston Sturges (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Edmund Preston Biden"
Preston Sturges frequently works together with these people:
Hans Dreier (16x, Crew)
Wally Westmore (16x, Crew)
Edith Head (13x, Crew)
Al Bridge (11x, Actor)
William Demarest (10x, Actor)
Frank Moran (9x, Actor)
Ernst Fegté (9x, Crew)
Franklin Pangborn (8x, Actor)
Robert Greig (8x, Actor)
Jimmy Conlin (8x, Actor)
Torben Meyer (8x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:27199, Added: 05/08/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024