Screenplay: Preston Sturges
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Preston Sturges. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
I'll Be Yours
1947 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction William A. Seiter
Cast Deanna Durbin · Tom Drake · William Bendix · Adolphe Menjou
Plot A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.
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Strictly Dishonorable
1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Norman Panama · Melvin Frank
Cast Ezio Pinza · Janet Leigh · Millard Mitchell · Gale Robbins
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Safeguarding Military Information (S)
1942 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States
Direction Preston Sturges
Cast Eddie Bracken · Ian Hunter · Walter Huston · Ginger Rogers
Plot Documentary short depicting the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of secret military information, showing the unintended and disastrous results of careless conversation and improper maintenance of secret records.
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College Swing
1938 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Raoul Walsh
Cast George Burns · Gracie Allen · Martha Raye · Bob Hope
Plot Gracie Alden tries to graduate on college to get an inheritance.
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They Just Had to Get Married
1932 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Edward Ludwig
Cast Slim Summerville · ZaSu Pitts · Roland Young · Verree Teasdale
Plot Molly Hull, a maid, and Sam Sutton, a butler, are bequeathed a million dollars, and they encounter many problems and difficulties as they try to become the newest members of...
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Child of Manhattan
1933 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Edward Buzzell
Cast Nancy Carroll · John Boles · Buck Jones · Jessie Ralph
Plot Taxi dancer Madeleine McGonegle (Nancy Carroll) attracts the attention of millionaire Paul Vanderkill (John Boles), and when she becomes pregnant, they get married to avoid a scandal. When the baby...
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Fast and Loose
1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Fred C. Newmeyer
Cast Miriam Hopkins · Carole Lombard · Frank Morgan · Charles Starrett
Plot A wealthy family is thrown into turmoil when the daughter falls for the family chauffeur and the son begins to keep company with a chorus girl.
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The Big Pond
1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Hobart Henley
Cast Maurice Chevalier · Claudette Colbert · George Barbier · Marion Ballou
Plot A tour guide in Venice romances a visiting American tourist whose father owns a chewing-gum factory back in the U.S. She sets out to convince her skeptical father to bring...
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The French, They Are a Funny Race
1955 · Movie · 105 min. · France
Direction Preston Sturges
Cast Martine Carol · Paulette Dubost · Jack Buchanan · Noël-Noël
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Port of Seven Seas
1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States
Direction James Whale
Cast Wallace Beery · Frank Morgan · Maureen O'Sullivan · John Beal
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Strictly Dishonorable
1931 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction John M. Stahl
Cast Paul Lukas · Sidney Fox · Lewis Stone · George Meeker
Plot A womanizing singer falls for an old-fashioned Southern belle. The problem is, she already has a fiance.
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The Birds and the Bees
1956 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast George Gobel · Mitzi Gaynor · David Niven · Reginald Gardiner
Plot George 'Hotsy' Hamilton II, heir to a meat-packing fortune, returns home from an expedition in the Congo. On board a luxury cruise, he is charmed by con artist Jean Harris...
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