A satire that chastises Hollywood for its blinkered moralizing yet espouses on the value of escapism, Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels” may seem like a film rife with contradictions, but not only ...

Preston Sturges, the writer and director who is being feted with a retrospective at New York City’s Film Forum, lived a life that could have prompted its own screwball comedy. Talk about a set-up: ...

"A T the present writing, what with throwing away stuff I haven't liked, I have about forty pages of shooting script," Preston Sturges wrote to an anxious Darryl F. Zanuck in 1947. "This need not ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

The Alamo Drafthouse Ritz launches a mini-retrospective of Preston Sturges comedies tonight (35mm prints!), and it’s the right time of the year for the series: For all of Sturges' acerbic kick and ...

Preston Sturges, center, surrounded by his case from 'The Palm Beach Story,' from left: Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Claudette Colbert and Rudy Vallee It is a world where confidence tricksters fleece ...

The Trump years are over, the pandemic is winding down, and as Americans slowly return to what’s left of our normal lives, many of us are carrying a lot fewer illusions about the nature of our ...

How many Broadway shows has Preston Sturges been in? Preston Sturges has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Preston Sturges been in? Preston Sturges has not appeared in the ...

Diana Lynn, William Demarest, and Betty Hutton in 1944’s The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek. Photo: Courtesy Everett Collection Writer-director hyphenates are ubiquitous in comedy today, but it was ...