Preston Sturges Videos

Director and film historian Peter Bogdanovich introduces Preston Sturges' censor baiting comedy The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 for TCM's The Essentials.

Father Kockenlocker's two daughters have left him behind in the script of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek 1944 .

Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Back in Big Eden, Henry must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend from high School, as well as the object of his unrequited love. All these years Henry has been pining

Stanwyck shines again in a great Preston Sturges comedy. This is the classic scene when she lets Henry Fonda know on their wedding night that he wasn't exactly the first man she has ever been with....

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I'LL BE YOURS 1947 . Cast:Deanna Durbin...Louise Ginglebusher Tom Drake...George Prescott William Bendix...Wechsberg Adolphe Menjou...J. Conrad Nelson Walter Catlett...Mr. Buckingham Franklin Pangborn...Barber William Trenk...Captain Joan Shawlee...Blonde Patricia Alphin...Usherette William Brooks...Stage Door Johnny Cred...

The Bryn Mawr Film Institute hosts an upcoming four week class on Preston Sturges taught by Drexel University professor Ian Abrams. For more information, go to Preston Sturges NEW.htmlTrailer created by Nicole Vergalla & Ian Abrams. In a dizzying four years, Preston Sturges reinvented American film comedy. With seven landmark films, his mix of wordplay and slapstick created a school of movie making that was wildly funny and distinctively American a sop...

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS | Preston Sturges, USA 1941

Easy Living 1937 is a screwball comedy film, directed by Mitchell Leisen, written by Preston Sturges from a story by Vera Caspary, and starring Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, and Ray Milland. Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin composed the song "Easy Living" for the film, and it has since become a jazz standard, made famous by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and many other jazz singers.For Stereo Piano Sound Just Go Here: Information:Le...

Two good scenes from the otherwise insipid movie.

KEN BOWSER SAID: "If you look in the background, there's Preston Sturges about to direct a scene and wondering where the hell his actress is going. A typical Sturges gag."

"Dying is easy comedy, that's hard". No truer words were ever spoken, certainly as regards comedy. That's why I'm so excited about three new on DVD releases of three classic screwball entries from Hollywood's Golden Age: "Easy Living" 1937 , written by soon to be director Preston Sturges and starring the irresistible, husky voiced Jean Arthur; "Midnight" 1939 , starring Claudette Colbert and Don Ameche, and written by soon to be director Billy W...

MICHAEL MCKEAN SAID: "William Demarest was, in a lot of ways, kind of the primo Preston Sturges guy. He was a go to guy. He does a fall in Miracle Of Morgan's Creek. He trys to kick his daughter. Which was a laudable impulse in the plot, as I recall. Trying to kick Diana Lynn in the butt. And he lets fly with a kick. Misses her by a good 6 inches. And flies straight up in the air and lands flat on his back. And you think: either this man has been killed or he's done a very very fu...

Season 2, Ep 10: Yes, We Have No Bananas or Anything Else for That Matter A gently surreal episode whose humor derives from escalating skewed logic in the Preston Sturges mode: Greg's hostile secretary Marlene at last the wonderful Yeardley Smith returns! is offended by her annual staff evaluation as "Satisfactory," while Greg is overjoyed by his "Superior" rating until he learns Pete got the same rating. When Greg confronts his boss, he is driven to desperation by th...

A cut above "The Lady Eve."Select scenes from an amusing screwball comedy/murder mystery pitting a rich, snooping socialite "Melsa Manton"/Barbara Stanwyck against a persistent investigative newspaper editor "Peter Ames"/Henry Fonda and the local police force headed by dyspeptic "Lt. Brent"/Sam Levene .Three years after filming "The Mad Miss Manton" 1938 at RKO, Stanwyck and Fonda were re teamed for Preston Sturges's "The Lady Ev...

Kaleb Williams and Stephanie Huettner in a scene from Preston Sturges A Palm Beach Story, Directed by Marlo Nespeca

Season 2, Ep 10: Yes, We Have No Bananas or Anything Else for That Matter A gently surreal episode whose humor derives from escalating skewed logic in the Preston Sturges mode: Greg's hostile secretary Marlene at last the wonderful Yeardley Smith returns! is offended by her annual staff evaluation as "Satisfactory," while Greg is overjoyed by his "Superior" rating until he learns Pete got the same rating. When Greg confronts his boss, he is driven to desperation by th...

Jess Lee Brooks performing the classic spiritual. From the 1941 Preston Sturges movie "Sullivan's Travels", starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake.

Joel McCrea confronts Claudette Colbert about the old man and Claudette brings up getting a divorce."From the time you're about so big and wondering why your girlfriend's fathers are getting so arch all of a sudden. Nothing wrong, just an overture to the Opera that's coming."This scene is great. I can't watch it enough times. Claudette Colbert makes a speech about men and sex...only Preston Sturges can create this kind of dialogue.

Taped at the DIRECTORS CHAIR Film Fest, CTV Studios, Staten Island NY, October 2007.Preston Sturges guitar, vox.Richard Christian Matheson drums.Craig Spector Bass, vox.Words & Music by Preston Sturges.Arrangement by SMASH CUT.2008 Zerimuz Music.All rights reserved.