Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges was born in Chicago in 1898 and grew up mostly in France with his mother, Mary Desti, a friend of Isadora Duncan. At around twenty he ran the New York shop of his mother's cosmetics company, to which an indelible lipstick is attributed, then wrote plays for Broadway. He sold a screenplay to Paramount for ten dollars, on condition that he direct it, and became one of the first screenwriters to succeed as directors; the film he made from it won him the first Oscar for original screenplay. The tax authorities seized his Hollywood restaurant in 1953; he died in New York in 1959.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Lady EvePreston Sturges · 1941Cinema
• CinemaSullivan's TravelsPreston Sturges · 1941Cinema