Preston Sturges was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director.
Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Eve (1941)
Veronica Lake and Joel McCrea in Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Rudy Vallée and Claudette Colbert in The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Akim Tamiroff, Muriel Angelus and Brian Donlevy in The Great McGinty (1940)
The Great McGinty is a 1940 American political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and Muriel Angelus. It was Sturges's first film as a director; he sold the story to Paramount Pictures for just $10 on condition he direct the film. Sturges received an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
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