biography
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Sturges, Preston
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originally Edmund Preston Biden
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| lived:
| (1898–1959)
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| biography:
| Film-maker and scriptwriter, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied in the USA and Europe, and became a businessman and inventor before succeeding in the 1940s with freewheeling comedies that combined wit, slapstick, and social concerns. His enduring hits include The Lady Eve (1941), Sullivan's Travels (1942), and Hail, the Conquering Hero (1944). He received an Oscar for the script of The Great McGinty (1940), and in 1974 a posthumous Laurel Award for achievement from the Writer's Guild of America. |
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