PRESTON STURGES

WRITING
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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.
- The Lady Eve 1941
- The Sin of Harold Diddlebock 1947
- The Palm Beach Story 1942
- Unfaithfully Yours 1948
- The Great Moment 1944
- Remember the Night 1940
- Easy Living 1937
- Never Say Die 1939
- Thirty Day Princess 1934
- The Birds and the Bees 1956
- The Good Fairy 1935
- College Swing 1938
- The Power and the Glory 1933
- If I Were King 1938