Category Archives: Sturges

easy living

Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur and Ray Milland in Easy Living. Mitchell Leisen. 1937.

titles

titles

Sturges. 1948.

dig the critics

Films and Filming reporter Allen Eyles musters about as much of an endorsement of The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend as one could.

April 1973.

unfaithfully yours

Lionel Stander, Robert Greig, Rudy Vallee and Barbara Lawrence.

Kurt Kreuger, Linda Darnell and Rex Harrison.

Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours. Sturges. 1948.

a book by its cover

isadora

Vanessa Redgrave in Isadora. Karel Reisz. 1968.

sturges at fourteen

Preston Sturges (left) on a beach in Trouville. 1913.

sullivan’s travels: deleted dialogue

Here are two pages from Preston Sturges’s screenplay for Sullivan’s Travels, it includes several bits of dialogue that don’t appear in the finished film including mentions of Josef von Sternberg, Frank Capra, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles.

sturges directs

Preston Sturges directs Harold Lloyd and Frances Ramsden in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock. 1945.