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| Name: |
Preston Sturges | | Variant Name: |
Edmund Preston Biden | | Birth Date: |
August 29, 1898 | | Death Date: |
August 6, 1959 | | Place of Birth: |
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America | | Place of Death: |
New York, New York, United States of America | | Nationality: |
American | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
director, screenwriter, playwright |
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Biography of Preston Sturges
3,445 words, approx. 12 pages
 Preston Sturges was and remains an enigmatic film director. For a decade--from 1940, when he began directing as well as writing, until 1950--Sturges was one of the most successful men in Hollywood. Between 1940 and 1944 he made nine films, all huge...
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Biography of Preston Sturges
2,037 words, approx. 7 pages
 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. He is best known for the comedies he made in the early 1940s. His films are distinguished by a...


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Sturges, Preston (1898-1959) Summary
212 words, approx. 1 pages After a childhood abroad, a stint in the army, and a turn as an inventor creating kiss-proof lipstick, in 1929 Chicago native Preston Sturges staged his first Broadway play. From that nearly accidental debut, he fashioned a career in Hollywood's...
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Preston Sturges Information
4,121 words, approx. 14 pages
 Preston Sturges (August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated screenwriter and director born in Chicago. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard...




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 The Boston Globe
New collection celebrates Preston Sturges
11/19/2006: 405 words, approx. 1 pages HOME ENTERTAINMENT / DVD BOX SET You can look it up. Preston Sturges had the most amazing five- year run in Hollywood history. Between 1940 and 1944 he wrote and directed "The Great McGinty," "Christmas in July," "The Lady Eve," "Sullivan's Travels," "The...
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 The Boston Globe
Preston Sturges: A Hollywood Original
04/22/1990: 1,057 words, approx. 4 pages MADCAP The Life of Preston Sturges. By Donald Spoto. Little, Brown. 301 pp. $19.95. Illustrated. Preston Sturges' upbringing was almost as outrageous as the movies he made. His mother married four times and had who knows how many lovers. The daughter of...
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1950's musicals star Betty Hutton dies
3/13/2007: 1,107 words, approx. 4 pages Betty Hutton, the actress and singer who brought a brassy vitality to Hollywood musicals such as "Annie Get Your Gun," has died in Palm Springs, Calif., at age 86.The death was confirmed Monday by a friend of Hutton who spoke only on the condition of...
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 The New York Observer
Knocked Up a K.O.!: Apatow Hits Ground Like Sturges, Wilder
6/5/2007: 703 words, approx. 2 pages Knocked Up Running time 129 minutes Written and directed by Judd Apatow Starring Seth Rogen, Katherine Heigl, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann Judd Apatow’s Knocked Up, from his own screenplay, has become the critical sensation, movie newsmaker and cocktail-party conversation piece of the season, and you...


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