Preston Sturges

编剧, 导演, 制片人, 演员

1898年8月29日 — 1959年8月6日 (60 years)
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Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty.

Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations.

In recent years, film scholars such as Alessandro Pirolini have also argued that Sturges' cinema anticipated more experimental narratives by contemporary directors such as Joel and Ethan Coen, Robert Zemeckis, and Woody Allen, along with prolific The Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder: "Many of [Sturges'] movies and screenplays reveal a restless and impatient attempt to escape codified rules and narrative schemata, and to push the mechanisms and conventions of their genre to the extent of unveiling them to the spectator. [See for example] the disruption of standardized timelines in films such as The Power and the Glory and The Great McGinty [or the way] an apparently classical comedy such as Unfaithfully Yours (1948) shifts into the realm of multiple and hypothetical narratives.

Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (such as Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts. However, Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to be initially mainly successfully established as a screenwriter and then to subsequently move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were mostly entrenched and separate. Famously, Sturges sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $1, in return for being allowed to direct the film; the sum was quietly raised to $10 by the studio for legal reasons.

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Plex 上的电影与电视节目

  • 哈罗德・迪德尔博克之罪
    哈罗德・迪德尔博克之罪1947
  • We Live Again
    We Live Again1934

知名作品

  • 苏利文的旅行
    苏利文的旅行1941
  • 淑女伊芙
    淑女伊芙1941
  • 棕榈滩的故事
    棕榈滩的故事1942
  • 摩根河的奇迹
    摩根河的奇迹1943
  • 今宵难忘
    今宵难忘1940
  • 江湖异人传
    江湖异人传1940
  • 战时丈夫
    战时丈夫1944
  • 红杏出墙
    红杏出墙1948
  • 七月圣诞
    七月圣诞1940
  • 轻松生活
    轻松生活1937
  • 风流女妖
    风流女妖1942
  • 醋海风波
    醋海风波1984
  • 哈罗德・迪德尔博克之罪
    哈罗德・迪德尔博克之罪1947
  • 春风秋雨
    春风秋雨1934
  • 二十世纪快车
    二十世纪快车1934
  • 糊涂活宝贝
    糊涂活宝贝1958
  • 伟大时刻
    伟大时刻1944
  • 玉腿金枪
    玉腿金枪1949
  • 黄粱一梦
    黄粱一梦1934
  • 百老汇旋律1940
    百老汇旋律19401940

影視作品

2012
Welcome To The Basement · as Screenplay
1984
Unfaithfully Yours · as Original Film Writer
1956
The Birds and the Bees · as Screenplay
1955
1950
1949
1948
Unfaithfully Yours · as Screenplay
1947
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock · as Screenplay在 Plex
1947
1944
The Great Moment · as Screenplay
1944
1943
1942
The Palm Beach Story · as Screenplay
1941
1941
1941
The Lady Eve · as Screenplay
1940
1940
1940
1939
Remember the Night · as Screenplay
1939
Never Say Die · as Screenplay
1938
If I Were King · as Screenplay
1938
1938
College Swing · as Screenplay
1937
Easy Living · as Screenplay
1937
1936
1935
1935
The Good Fairy · as Screenplay
1934
Imitation of Life · as Contributing Writer
1934
Thirty Day Princess · as Screenplay
1934
1933
The Power and the Glory · as Screenplay