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Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges

film director, screenwriter (1898-1959)
August 29, 1898 (August 6, 1959)

The French They Are a Funny Race

V.O.: Les Carnets du Major Thompson
Runtime: 79 min.
U.S. 1949. Western by Preston Sturges with Cesar Romero, Betty Grable, Olga San Juan. The misadventures of a Westerner too fond of handling a gun.
Runtime: 77 min.
U.S. 1948. Comedy by Preston Sturges with Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Barbara Lawrence. During a concert, a conductor discusses different ways to kill his unfaithful wife.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 1947. Comedy by Preston Sturges with Harold Lloyd, Frances Ramsden, Jimmy Colin. Following his dismissal after twenty-two years of service, a tidy man gets drunk and wins a fortune at the races.
Runtime: 89 min.
U.S. 1944. Biography by Preston Sturges with Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey. The story of the dentist who was the first to use ether as an anesthetic.
Runtime: 83 min.
U.S. 1944. Comedy by Preston Sturges with Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn. A decent guy, who is rejected by the army, leads his entourage to believe he is a hero.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 1943. Satire by Preston Sturges with Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, Diana Lynn. A naive young man gets into trouble by trying to help a pregnant friend.
Runtime: 98 min
U.S. 1941. Sentimental comedy by Preston Sturges with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn. Aboard an ocean liner, an adventurer tries to win over a rich explorer.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1941. Sentimental comedy by Preston Sturges with Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor.
Runtime: 88 min.
U.S. 1941. Comedy by Preston Sturges with Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick. In order to study misery more closely, a filmmaker disguises himself as a beggar.
Runtime: 90 min.
Runtime: 82 min.
U.S. 1940. Comedy by Preston Sturges with Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn.
Runtime: 67 min.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1938. Sentimental drama by James Whale with Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan.
Runtime: 81 min.
U.S. 1933. Mores drama by William K. Howard with Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore, Ralph Morgan.
Runtime: 76 min.

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