History Creator / PrestonSturges

* ''Film/TheInvisibleMan'' (contributing writer, uncredited)

Preston Sturges (born Edmund Preston Biden, August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, inventor, and restaurateur.

First director to use the "written and directed by" credit (for ''The Great [=McGinty=]''), which won the first "Best Original Screenplay" UsefulNotes/AcademyAward.

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And, no, he wasn't related to John Sturges, who directed such films as ''Film/BadDayAtBlackRock'' and ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''.

Preston Sturges (1898 – 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, director, producer, inventor, and restaurateur.

Sturges' output at the beginning of TheForties was especially prolific; he wrote ''Remember the Night'', wrote and directed ''[=McGinty=]'', ''Christmas in July'', and ''The Lady Eve'', and opened a restaurant in 1940, then won an Oscar for ''[=McGinty=]'' and wrote and directed ''Sullivan's Travels'' and ''The Palm Beach Story'' in 1941, all before Pearl Harbor was attacked.

* ''Film/ThePowerAndTheGlory'' (1933) (screenplay only)

No, he wasn't related to John Sturges, who directed such films as ''Film/BadDayAtBlackRock'' and ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven''.

->"Unless television gets into the hands of the same real estate men and candy butchers who inherited sound film from the movies, it will discharge the obligation that talking film failed to do and will diffuse to the smallest hamlets in the furthest part of the world the treasures of literature and of music."

1940 was an especially prolific year for Sturges; he wrote ''Remember the Night'', wrote and directed ''[=McGinty=]'', ''Christmas in July'', and ''The Lady Eve'', and opened a restaurant. He won an Oscar for ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''Sullivan's Travels'', and wrote ''The Palm Beach Story'' before Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941.

The prolific Sturges wrote and directed ''[=McGinty=]'', ''Christmas in July'', and ''The Lady Eve'' and opened a restaurant in 1940. He won an Oscar for ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''Sullivan's Travels'', and wrote ''The Palm Beach Story'' before Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941.

Sturges directed ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''Christmas in July'', wrote and directed ''The Lady Eve'', and opened a restaurant in 1940. He won an Oscar for ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''Sullivan's Travels'', and wrote ''The Palm Beach Story'' before Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941.

Sturges directed ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''Christmas in July'', wrote and directed ''The Lady Eve'', and opened a restaurant in 1940. He won an Oscar for ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''Film/SullivansTravels'', and wrote ''The Palm Beach Story'' before Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941.

Preston Sturges (1898 – 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film director, producer, inventor, restaurateur.

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->"Unless television gets into the hands of the same real estate men and candy butchers who inherited sound film from the movies, it will discharge the obligation that talking film failed to do and will diffuse to the smallest hamlets in the furthest part of the world the treasures of literature and of music."

* ''Film/TheGreatMcginty''

Sturges directed ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''Christmas in July'', wrote and directed ''The Lady Eve'', and opened a restaurant in 1940. He won an Oscar for ''[=McGinty=]'', wrote and directed ''[[SullivansTravels Sullivan's Travels]]'', and wrote ''The Palm Beach Story'' before Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941.

First director to use the "written and directed by" credit (for ''The Great [=McGinty=]''), which won the first "Best Original Screenplay" AcademyAward.

* ''TheLadyEve''
* ''[[SullivansTravels Sullivan's Travels]]''
* ''ThePalmBeachStory''
* ''TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek''
* ''UnfaithfullyYours''