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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: August 29, 1898 in Chicago, IL Death: August 6, 1959 in New York City, NY Biography:One of Hollywood's genuinely legendary directors, "Preston Sturges" redefined the boundaries and meaning of screen comedy during part of the early '40s. The son of a socially prominent couple, Sturges had a cosmopolitan upbringing throughout Europe and America, and served in the Air Corps during World War I. He worked for a time in his mother's cosmetics company before moving into other fields, including inventing. He began writing plays in the late '20s, creating one major hit, Strictly Dishonorable. Sturges then got some experience writing screen dialogue and became a scriptwriter in 1933. By the middle of the decade, he had developed a reputation at Paramount Pictures for his witty, sophisticated, but unpretentious writing, most notably in "The Good Fairy" and "Easy Living". He also learned a lot about filmmaking during this period, and, in 1940, convinced the studio to allow him to direct his first... Full Biography
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