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Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges
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Born:
August 29, 1898
Died:
August 06, 1959
Age:
60
Birth Name:
Edmund Preston Biden
Country:
Awards:
Won 1 Oscar. Another 3 wins & 3 nominations.
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Some Facts
He was a womanizer who struggled in most of his serious sexual relationships. Part of his unwillingness for monogamy was that his mother often held several affairs with several different men and women at one time while she was raising him.
Did not start writing until he was 30 years old.
Appears as a character in John Kessel's story "The Miracle of Ivar Avenue".
Great-grandfather of Jack Enzo Kelly, born on September 6 2001, to Shannon Sturges and Michael Kelley.
Is said to have sold his signature The Great McGinty (1940) screenplay to Paramount for $1 with the promise that he would direct the movie, too.
Personal Quotes
When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.
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[on Veronica Lake] She's one of the little people, like Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and Freddie Bartholomew when he started, who take hold of an audience immediately. She's nothing much in real life -- a quiet, rather timid little thing. But the screen transforms her, electrifies her and brings her to life.
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I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
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Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly, but without pity, that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.
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[His "golden rule" for successful comedy:] A pretty girl is better than a plain one / A leg is better than an arm / A bedroom is better than a living room / An arrival is better that a departure / A birth is better than a death / A chase is better than a chat / A dog is better than a landscape / A kitten is better than a dog / A baby is better than a kitten / A kiss is better than a baby / A pratfall is better than anything.
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Filmography
Film
Year
1953
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