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Preston Sturges
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Film & TV
Chicago, Illinois, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGinty. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that,…
Known for
- Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer — Self (archive footage)1990
- Paris Holiday — Serge Vitry1958
- Reflets de Cannes — Self1954
- Star Spangled Rhythm — Preston Sturges1942
- Christmas in July — Man at Shoeshine Stand (uncredited)1940
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edmund
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chicago
- Place of death
- New York City
- Educated at
- Lycée Janson-de-Sailly
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Official website
- www.prestonsturges.com/main.html
- Image
- Preston Sturges.jpg
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- birth name
- Edmund Preston Biden
- manner of death
- natural causes
- place of burial
- Ferncliff Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1898-08-29
- date of death
- 1959-08-06
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Commons category
- Preston Sturges
- topic has template
- Template:Preston Sturges
- start of work period
- 1928-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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