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Preston Sturges - The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director - cover

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Preston Sturges - The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director

Nick Smedley, Tom Sturges

Publisher: Intellect

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Summary

Few directors of the 1930s and 40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. This book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges' whole oeuvre, incorporating a detailed study of the last ten years of his life from new primary sources. Preston Sturges details the many unfinished projects of Sturges' last decade, including films, plays, TV series and his autobiography. Drawing on diaries, sketchbooks, correspondence, unpublished screenplays and more, Nick Smedley and Tom Sturges present the writer-director's final years in more detail than we've ever seen, showing a master still at work – even if very little of that work ultimately made it to the screen or stage. 
Available since: 05/17/2019.

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