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Preston Sturges Biography

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Name: Preston Sturges
Variant Name: Edmund Preston Bide
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

Encyclopedia of World Biography on Preston Sturges

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 zany wit and brilliant, madcap dialogue.

Preston Sturges was born Edmund Preston Biden on August 29, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. His was not a traditional upbringing. His mother, Mary, had several husbands and lovers. She was also a close friend of the dancer Isadora Duncan, sharing with her a lifestyle that might be described as "loose." In the autobiography, Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges, the director describes his mother as having a "vivid fantasy life...anything she said three times she believed fervently." In turn, his father, Edmund Biden, was an alcoholic.

By 1900, two years after Edmund Preston was born, his parents had divorced. Mary had earlier begun a relationship with Solomon Sturges, a wealthy Chicago stockbroker, whom she married in October 1901.

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