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The Great McGinty is a 1940 American political satire comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff and featuring William Demarest and (in her final screen appearance) Muriel Angelus.
The very un-seasonal plot actually depicts a lower class ad copywriter who mistakenly is led to think he has won $25,000. But what a dupe it is that Sturges uses the lure of the most money dependent holiday in a work critiquing capitalism. Like many of Sturges’ earlier Depression-era entries, there are no haves and have nots in “July.”
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An image of Paul Jones also appears in the film, because the producer posed for the photograph we see of Joseph, the deceased husband of the sexually predatory farm widow, Miz Zeffie (Esther Howard). As Sully attempts to escape from his room at the farm after Miz Zeffie has locked him in, the portrait’s eyes shift in a furtive manner to track ...
Christmas in July is a 1940 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Dick Powell and Ellen Drew. Based on Sturges' unproduced 1931 play A Cup of Coffee , it follows an ambitious clerk who is tricked into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest for a coffee company, and begins using his ...
Aug 20, 2001 · DeSylva and Sturges’ very first argument was over the casting of the female lead: Sturges insisted upon Veronica Lake, while the boss proposed Ida Lupino, Frances Farmer, Claire Trevor, Lucille Ball, Betty Field, or Ruby Keeler.
However, when Sturges left Paramount the same year, executive producer Buddy DeSylva (who disliked Sturges) re-edited both Hail the Conquering Hero and The Great Moment (as it was now called). After a bad audience preview of Hail the Conquering Hero , Paramount allowed Sturges to return and fix the movie (without pay).
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Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. A satire on the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director ( Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film.
