Two of filmdom's finest farceurs--Hollywood's Bob Hope and France's Fernandel--are teamed in the location-filmed Paris...
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Serge Vitry
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1957
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This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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Les Carnets du Major Thompson was the final film effort of producer-director-writer Preston Sturges. Once a Hollywood...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1956
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Vendetta began as a pet project of producer/director/writer Preston Sturges. Producer Howard R. Hughes was at first...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1950
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1949
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Preston Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours is a typically witty and wild screwball comedy starring Rex Harrison as a symphony...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1948
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Absent from films since 1938 (except as producer of a brace of RKO Radio features), silent-screen comedy favorite...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1947
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In this musical comedy, Louise Ginglebusher (Deanna Durbin) is a girl from a small town who comes top New York City with...
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Screenwriter
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1947
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After producing, writing and directing one hit film after another, Preston Sturges finally misfired with the biopic The Great...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1944
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This wild, once-controversial comedy stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a man-crazy single girl whose favorite pastime...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1944
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It took nerve for writer/director Preston Sturges to lampoon the whole concept of hero worship in the middle of World War...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1944
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Star-Spangled Rhythm is a typical wartime all-star musical-comedy melange, this time from Paramount Pictures. The slender...
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1942
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Producer
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1942
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As for the opening reels, the principal motivating factor is money. After a deliberately confusing pre-credit sequence (not...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1942
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1941
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Director, Screenwriter
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1941
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MGM's third follow-up to its landmark Broadway Melody is short on story, but that's okay, since the plot is merely a...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Screenwriter
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1940
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The moral of Preston Sturges' first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you're a crook, stay a crook,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1940
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1940
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Bob Hope and an all-star cast have great fun in this frothy romantic comedy about a wealthy tycoon who learns that he only...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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If I Were King is a delightful costume adventure tale set in 14th century France, during the reign of Louis XI, and inspired...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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James Whale directed this screen adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's French classic Fanny. Madelon (Maureen O'Hara) is a lovely...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) -- known in the press as "the Bull of Broad Street" -- may be one of the wealthiest...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Aspiring actress Cicely Tyler (Margaret Sullavan) puts her career on hold when she marries ambitious newsman Christopher...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Screenwriter Preston Sturges never lets the facts get in the way of a good story in this colorful filmed biography of...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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We Live Again was based on Tolstoy's Resurrection; the title was changed upon producer Sam Goldwyn's theory that it meant the...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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A European princess heads for New York in order to see if the U. S. will back her country's bond issue. Unfortunately, she...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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On the outs at Paramount, musical comedy star Nancy Carroll was "punished" by being sent to Columbia for the lachrymose Child...
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Play Author
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Le Grande Mare is the French-language version of Paramount's The Big Pond (1930), with Maurice Chevalier and...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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