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preston sturgis was one of the greatest comedy filmmakers of all time that maybe you never heard of. i want this to be a picture of dignity. a true canvas of the suffering of humanity. with a little sex in it. how about a nice musical? early hollywood was a very hierarchal society. screenwriters wrote and directors directed. nobody did both. sturges wanted to direct. he wrote a script that the studio really liked for a film called the great mcginty and he agreed to sell it to the studio for a dollar if he would let him direct and the studio agreed. the rest is the history. when i asked billy wilder who he thought the king of writer-directors was he said preston sturges. preston sturges is the first. preston sturges is the man that put these characters together and told the stories and opened the door for the rest of us. the lady eve one of his ....
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