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          The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz launches a mini-retrospective of Preston Sturges comedies tonight (35mm prints!), and it's the right ".

        1. Under the sparklingly spot-on direction of Laura Braza, Sturges' joyous vision of struggling young love in a bygone, booze-soaked Manhattan.
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        3. Tom Sturges discusses and signs Preston Sturges: The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director Few directors of the s and '40s were as distinctive.
        4. This is Unfaithfully Yours, a Twentieth Century Fox feature written and directed by Preston Sturges in , and available now in yet another excellent digital.

          5. “(The) only amazing thing about my career in Hollywood is that I ever had one at all.”

          This is the bittersweet confession made by Preston Sturges, midway through his unfinished autobiography, published in 1990, 31 years after his death.

          When he came to finally direct his first film for Paramount, The Great McGinty in 1940, a morality tale comedy and political satire about corruption in American civil life, Sturges was 42 and he had been working in Hollywood as a screenwriter for close to ten years.

          He had sold this script to the studio for 10 dollars, just to be able to direct it, and have total control, a rarity in those days. He won the Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for it and was soon on a roll.

          In the next four years, he would helm an astonishing total of six more pictures, most of them considered classics today, some the best screwballs comedies ever made: Christmas in July, The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan’s