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• Director Preston Sturges
  
  Considered the father of the screwball comedy, Preston Sturges was recognized as one of the great early writers in Hollywood.Sturges was born in 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Mary Desti, was an Irish immigrant with dreams of stardom. When Pr ...
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• Director Preston Sturges
  
  Preston Sturges was one of Americas great filmmakers He was the first Hollywood writer to direct his own script, and thus the credit written and directed by first appeared before his name in THE GREAT MCGINTY.He won the first Academy Award ever given ...
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• The Director Preston Sturges
  
  Preston Sturges own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work.He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mothers friend, Isadora Duncan the scarf that strangled her was made by his mothers c ...
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• The Sturges Emerges
  
  Preston Sturges and his films inhabit a unique place in film history.There is a strong sense of period captured in Sturges films.The balloon of current culture is explored by a man holding a pin. So sharp are the directors insights into the social mi ...
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