Of all the stupid vanities in a business that specializes in stupid vanities, the possessory credit takes the cake. That credit is the one that appears at the top of a film saying, “A film by _____,” ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek stars Betty Hutton as a boy-crazy small-town girl named Trudy who goes to a dance for departing soldiers and winds up drunk, married, and pregnant. She wakes up fuzzy on ...

Sturges’s screwball comedies play with big ideas and serious themes. So what makes them some of the funniest films ever made? It was a sprint worthy of his greatest farces: between 1937 and 1944, ...

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 ...