Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a member of Hollywood's gifted royalty. He wrote, directed, and produced a remarkable number of successful films and wrote and produced for the Broadway stage. Brian Henderson is Professor of Film and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at the State University of New York, Buffalo. Tom Sturges, who conceived this series of books, is the general manager of Los Angeles-based T.W.Is.M. Records. He is working on a one-man play about the life of his father, Preston Sturges.
"Henderson's new book, which includes accounts of the genesis of each script, also indirectly vindicates Sturges's skills as a film director and film shaper: In less capable hands his risky comic ideas and mixing of slapstick with high comedy could have collapsed into a silly mess."--Whit Stillman, "Wall Street Journal
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