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"If you're looking for a good juicy read, or material to inspire a potentially knockout movie, make plans right now to check out a new book about Sturges by Diane Jacobs. . . . Now, at long last, Sturges seems to genuinely be getting the legendary status he's deserved for some time."--"Hollywood Reporter
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In this first critical biography of Preston Sturges, Diane Jacobs brings to life the great comic filmmaker whose career Andrew Sarris described as 'one of the most brilliant and bizarre bursts of creation in the history of the American cinema'. Jacobs uses letters and manuscripts never before revealed, as well as interviews with people who knew Sturges - including three of his wives - to portray this fascinating, contradictory man. In addition to discussing his major films, she also examines heretofore unknown work and shows that Sturges was highly creative even near the end of his life, a time when many believed he had lost his touch. Sturges secured his place in film history as the creator of such classic films as "The Lady Eve", "Sullivan's Travels", and "The Palm Beach Story". In 1939 he became the first screenwriter to win the right to direct his own script - the result was the Oscar-winning "The Great McGinty". Creator of "Unfaithfully Yours", "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek", and "Hail the Conquering Hero", he was the third highest-paid man in the United States by the late 1940s. He owned a swank Hollywood restaurant and was known as an ebullient raconteur as well as a world-famous filmmaker. A little over a decade later, Sturges died in New York, impoverished and rejected by Hollywood. The euphoria of success, the fitfulness of luck, the promise and poignancy of the American Dream - the themes of Sturges' work also marked the man. Diane Jacobs achieves a singular success in illuminating his extraordinary life.
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