| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
Few directors of the 1930s and '40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich and endorsements from Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Shelton, and James L. Brooks, this book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges's whole oeuvre, closing with a detailed study of his life, developed from new primary sources, from 1949 until his death in 1959. Nick Smedley details the many unfinished projects of Sturges's last decade, including films, plays, TV series, and his autobiography. Drawing on diaries, sketchbooks, correspondence, unpublished screenplays, and more, Smedley presents Sturges's final years in more detail than we've ever had, showing a master still at work--even if very little of that work ultimately made it to the screen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A fallen giant: adjusting to the new, 1949-1950 -- Back to the future: Broadway and Paramount, 1951-1952 -- Sturges' travels: farewell to America, 1953 -- The millionairess and the major: Sturges returns to Paris, 1954 -- Americans in Paris: filming Major Thompson, 1955 -- American Gangster: the trials and tribulations of independent film production, 1956-1957 -- Farcical manoeuvres, 1957-1958 -- New York, New York: public hopes, private griefs, 1957 -- For better or for worse: marital tensions, 1957-1958 -- Sliding towards the brink, January-July 1958 -- The road to despair, July-December 1958 -- The conquering hero: return to New York, January-March 1959 -- Triumph over pain: the last happy months of Preston Sturges, March-August 1959 -- The events have led up to his death, August 1959 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sturges, Preston.
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Sturges, Preston. |
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Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Motion picture producers and directors. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.
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Screenwriters. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Sturges, Tom, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smedley, Nick. Preston Sturges. Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd 2019 1783209925 (OCoLC)1065914842 |
| ISBN |
9781789380255 (electronic book) |
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1789380251 (electronic book) |
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9781789380262 (electronic book) |
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178938026X (electronic book) |
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9781783209927 (paperback) |
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1783209925 (paperback) |
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