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.

Not rated

Not rated

Strictly Dishonorable

1951 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

The French, They Are a Funny Race

1955 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Not rated

Not rated

Port of Seven Seas

1938 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Not rated

Not rated

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.

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated