Preston Sturges is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 29 august 1898 at Chicago (USA)
Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges participated to
46 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those,
2 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Director
, 1h22
Directed by Preston Sturges,
Alvin GanzerOrigin USAGenres ComedyThemes Politique,
Political filmsActors Brian Donlevy,
Muriel Angelus,
Akim Tamiroff,
William Demarest,
Allyn Joslyn,
Jimmy ConlinRating71%
Dan McGinty (Brian Donlevy) is a bartender in a banana republic who recounts his rise and fall to the bar's dancing girl and an American customer. The customer was a trusted bank employee who can no longer return to the United States and his family because he is wanted by the law after falling to temptation and stealing from the bank. McGinty is in a similar situation, but in his case it is due to "one crazy minute" of honesty rather than one of dishonesty. In a long flashback, he explains.Scriptwriter
, 1h12
Directed by Hobart HenleyOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Romantic comedy,
RomanceThemes Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Maurice Chevalier,
Claudette Colbert,
George Barbier,
Nat PendletonRoles Dialogue
Rating56%
Pierre Mirande (Maurice Chevalier), is a Venetian tour guide from a poor French family who falls in love with Barbara Billings (Claudette Colbert), a wealthy American tourist whose father (George Barbier). Although Barbara loves Pierre as well, her suitor, Ronnie (Frank Lyon) and her father see him as a fortune-hunter. Barbara's mother (Marion Ballou) persuades her husband to give Pierre a job in his chewing-gum factory in the States. Despite living in a dingy boardinghouse and being given the hardest job in the plant, he manages to captivate his landlady (Andrée Corday) and the maid (Elaine Koch) with his humorous songs. Unfortunately, he falls asleep on the night he is to attend Barbara's party, and is then fired when he is wrongly accused of spilling rum on some chewing gum samples. He wins back his job, and is promoted as well, when he sells liquor-coated chewing gum as a sales gimmick. Barbara disapproves, and plans to marry Ronnie, but Pierre whisks her away in a speedboat.