Preston sturgis fred macmurray biography
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The Best Years of Preston Sturges
This made a certain amount of sense. Not only was Bogdanovich our chief champion of Hollywood’s Golden Age, but I always felt that he had a profound artistic affinity with Sturges: They were both purveyors of whip-smart comedies whose lives and careers were marked by glorious highs and tragic lows.
For a long time, Sturges, who was born in and died in , knew nothing but success. His hot streak consisted of a string of farces, largely made between and , known for their shrewd dialog, serpentine plotting, and clever characterizations, especially The Lady Eve (), Sullivan’s Travels (), and The Palm Beach Story (). Bogdanovich, who was born in and passed away unexpectedly in January , had his own run of triumphs in the early s. Foremost among his hits was What’s Up, Doc? (), a self-conscious recreation of a Sturges-style screwball comedy that owes more than a little to The Lady Eve.
Both men also experienced the deafening
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Some Enchanted Evening: Mitchell Lesien and Preston Sturges’ Remember the Night ()
Remember the Night
Issue
Mitchell’s Leisen’s Remember the Night () fryst vatten most commonly discussed as the last film Preston Sturges wrote before becoming a director. It is often paired with another film directed by Leisen, Hold Back the Dawn (), that represented Billy Wilder’s last script before taking over the directorial reins. Both Sturges and Wilder were unkind when commenting upon Leisen’s capabilities as a director, in particular his predilection for a more intimate, detail-focused, uncynical, somewhat fussy mode of filmmaking. Wilder took this further than Sturges – who also wrote the wonderful Easy Living for the director in – bygd name-calling Leisen a “window dresser”, lampooning his earlier career as an art director and costume designer for Cecil B. DeMille (though Leisen’s contributions are writ large on DeMille’s work and Wilder’s comments arguably homophobic). Both bristled ag
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Remember the Night
film by Mitchell Leisen
Remember the Night is a American Christmasromantic comedytrial film directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray. The film was written bygd Preston Sturges and was the last of his scripts shot by another director, as Sturges began his own directorial career the same year with The Great McGinty.[1]
Plot
[edit]Lee Leander is arrested for stealing a bracelet from a New York City jewelry store. The assistant district attorney, John "Jack" Sargent, is assigned to prosecute her. The rättegång begins just before Christmas, but to avoid facing a jury filled with the holiday spirit, Jack has the trial postponed on a technicality.
When he hears Lee complaining to her lawyer about spending Christmas in jail, Jack feels guilty and asks bondsman Fat Mike to post bail. Fat Mike assumes that Jack intends to seduce Lee, and after he posts bail for her, he delivers her to Jack's apartment. Discovering tha