Preston Sturges : the last years of Hollywood's first writer-director /

Few directors of the 1930s and '40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich and endorsements from Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Shelton, and James L. Brooks, this book offers a new crit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Smedley, Nick (Autor), Sturges, Tom (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2019
Temas:
Sturges, Preston.
Motion picture producers and directors > United States > Biography.
Screenwriters > United States > Biography.
Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma > États-Unis > Biographies.
Scénaristes > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Motion picture producers and directors.
Screenwriters.
ART / General
United States.
Biography
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A fallen giant: adjusting to the new, 1949-1950
  • Back to the future: Broadway and Paramount, 1951-1952
  • Sturges' travels: farewell to America, 1953
  • The millionairess and the major: Sturges returns to Paris, 1954
  • Americans in Paris: filming Major Thompson, 1955
  • American Gangster: the trials and tribulations of independent film production, 1956-1957
  • Farcical manoeuvres, 1957-1958
  • New York, New York: public hopes, private griefs, 1957
  • For better or for worse: marital tensions, 1957-1958
  • Sliding towards the brink, January-July 1958
  • The road to despair, July-December 1958
  • The conquering hero: return to New York, January-March 1959
  • Triumph over pain: the last happy months of Preston Sturges, March-August 1959
  • The events have led up to his death, August 1959

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