Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words

ISBN-13: 9780671747275 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 352 str.

Jr. Preston Sturges; Jr. Preston Sturges; Tom Sturges

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In this highly readable memoir, Sandy Sturges, wife of the legendary Hollywood director of screwball comedies of the 30s and the 40s, draws from his journals to create a portrait that will delight movie fans, Hollywood historians, and film students. "A story every bit as fast and wild as a Sturges movie".--The Village Voice.

Preston Sturges was the great writer and director of Hollywood screwball comedies of the thirties and forties. Sullivans Travels, The Miracle of Morgans Creek, and The Great McGinty have become film classics, demonstrating brilliant, inventive writing and directing. 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. From growing up in Europe with a mother whose best friend was Isadora Duncan to making his way among the beau monde of New York -- including a marriage to Barbara Huttons cousin Eleanor -- Sturges drew on a wealth of madcap experiences to create films of unprecedented comic originality. Working with her husbands wonderfully descriptive journals, Sandy Sturges has woven a captivating narrative that reveals a man of remarkable intellect, energy, and warmth.