Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. In recent years, film scholars such as Alessandro Pirolini have also argued that Sturges' cinema anticipated more experimental narratives by contemporary directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen, Robert Zemeckis, and Woody Allen, along with prolific The Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder: "Many of [Sturges'] movies and screenplays reveal a restless and impatient attempt to escape codified rules and narrative schemata, and to push the mechanisms and conventions of their genre to the extent of unveiling them to the spectator. [See for example] the disruption of standardized timelines in films such as The Power and the Glory and The Great McGinty [or the way] an apparently classical comedy such as Unfaithfully Yours (1948) shifts into the realm of multiple and hypothetical narratives. Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (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 be initially mainly successfully established as a screenwriter and then to subsequently move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were mostly entrenched and separate. Famously, Sturges sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $1, in return for being allowed to direct the film; the sum was quietly raised to $10 by the studio for legal reasons. Description above from the Wikipedia article Preston Sturges, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Titel: Preston Sturges
  • Popularitet: 3.968
  • Känd för: Writing
  • Födelsedag: 1898-08-29
  • Födelseort: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Preston Sturges Filmer

  • 1958
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    Paris Holiday

    Paris Holiday

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  • 1940
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    Jul i juli

    Jul i juli

    6.886 1940 HD

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  • 1942
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    Star Spangled Rhythm

    Star Spangled Rhythm

    5.9 1942 HD

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  • 1990
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    Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

    Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer

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  • 1941
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    Kvinnan Eva

    Kvinnan Eva

    7.238 1941 HD

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  • 1941
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    Kvinnan Eva

    Kvinnan Eva

    7.238 1941 HD

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  • 1984
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    Unfaithfully Yours

    Unfaithfully Yours

    5.6 1984 HD

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  • 1947
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    Åh, en sån onsdag

    Åh, en sån onsdag

    6.3 1947 HD

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  • 1947
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    Åh, en sån onsdag

    Åh, en sån onsdag

    6.3 1947 HD

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  • 1942
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    Dårarnas paradis

    Dårarnas paradis

    7.024 1942 HD

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    Dårarnas paradis

    Dårarnas paradis

    7.024 1942 HD

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  • 1948
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    Otrogen u.p.a.

    Otrogen u.p.a.

    7.2 1948 HD

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    Otrogen u.p.a.

    Otrogen u.p.a.

    7.2 1948 HD

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    Otrogen u.p.a.

    Otrogen u.p.a.

    7.2 1948 HD

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  • 1940
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    Jul i juli

    Jul i juli

    6.886 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    Jul i juli

    Jul i juli

    6.886 1940 HD

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  • 1940
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    Skojare gör karriär

    Skojare gör karriär

    6.955 1940 HD

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  • 1944
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    Ja, må han leva!

    Ja, må han leva!

    7.008 1944 HD

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  • 1940
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    Skojare gör karriär

    Skojare gör karriär

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    Ja, må han leva!

    Ja, må han leva!

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  • 1944
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    Seger över smärtan

    Seger över smärtan

    5.8 1944 HD

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    Seger över smärtan

    Seger över smärtan

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  • 1940
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    En kväll att minnas

    En kväll att minnas

    7.3 1940 HD

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  • 1943
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    Miraklet

    Miraklet

    6.862 1943 HD

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    Miraklet

    Miraklet

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    Miraklet

    Miraklet

    6.862 1943 HD

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  • 1941
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    Med tio cents på fickan

    Med tio cents på fickan

    7.424 1941 HD

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  • 1937
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    Pappa har en väninna

    Pappa har en väninna

    7 1937 HD

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  • 1949
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    Västerns vilda blondin

    Västerns vilda blondin

    5.8 1949 HD

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  • 1938
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    Om jag vore kung

    Om jag vore kung

    6.7 1938 HD

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  • 1939
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    Never Say Die

    Never Say Die

    6.8 1939 HD

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  • 1955
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    Hans franska fru

    Hans franska fru

    5 1955 HD

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  • 1938
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    I Marseilles hamnkvarter

    I Marseilles hamnkvarter

    1 1938 HD

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  • 1934
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    Thirty Day Princess

    Thirty Day Princess

    6.8 1934 HD

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  • 1942
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    Safeguarding Military Information

    Safeguarding Military Information

    5 1942 HD

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  • 1935
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    Diamantkungen

    Diamantkungen

    6 1935 HD

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  • 1934
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    We Live Again

    We Live Again

    6.5 1934 HD

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  • 1942
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    Safeguarding Military Information

    Safeguarding Military Information

    5 1942 HD

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  • 1933
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    Child of Manhattan

    Child of Manhattan

    8 1933 HD

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  • 1956
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    Det surrar, det surrar

    Det surrar, det surrar

    6.8 1956 HD

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  • 1949
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    Västerns vilda blondin

    Västerns vilda blondin

    5.8 1949 HD

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    Västerns vilda blondin

    Västerns vilda blondin

    5.8 1949 HD

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  • 1955
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    Hans franska fru

    Hans franska fru

    5 1955 HD

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  • 1930
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    The Big Pond

    The Big Pond

    5.8 1930 HD

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  • 1947
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    I'll Be Yours

    I'll Be Yours

    6 1947 HD

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  • 1937
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    Hotel Haywire

    Hotel Haywire

    1 1937 HD

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  • 1933
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    Den osynlige mannen

    Den osynlige mannen

    7.48 1933 HD

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  • 1936
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    Älska och aga

    Älska och aga

    5.8 1936 HD

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  • 1941
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    Med tio cents på fickan

    Med tio cents på fickan

    7.424 1941 HD

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  • 1947
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    Åh, en sån onsdag

    Åh, en sån onsdag

    6.3 1947 HD

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  • 1931
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    Strictly Dishonorable

    Strictly Dishonorable

    5.1 1931 HD

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  • 1935
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    The Good Fairy

    The Good Fairy

    6.9 1935 HD

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  • 1934
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    Primadonna

    Primadonna

    6.813 1934 HD

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  • 1938
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    College Swing

    College Swing

    6.8 1938 HD

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  • 1942
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    Farlig som synden

    Farlig som synden

    6.828 1942 HD

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  • 1933
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    The Power and the Glory

    The Power and the Glory

    5.929 1933 HD

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  • 1933
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    They Just Had to Get Married

    They Just Had to Get Married

    1 1933 HD

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  • 1958
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    Alla tiders farsa

    Alla tiders farsa

    6.7 1958 HD

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  • 1940
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    Jul i juli

    Jul i juli

    6.886 1940 HD

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  • 1944
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    Ja, må han leva!

    Ja, må han leva!

    7.008 1944 HD

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  • 1954
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    Reflets de Cannes

    Reflets de Cannes

    1 1954 HD

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