Preston Sturges — Playwright (13)
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The Great Moment (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Great Moment
director: Preston Sturges actor: Joel McCrea / Betty Field …
other title: El gran momento
The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
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The Good Fairy (1935) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Good Fairy
director: William Wyler actor: Margaret Sullavan / Herbert Marshall …
other title: Le vie della fortuna / Die Fee …
In 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Easy Living (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Easy Living
director: Mitchell Leisen actor: Jean Arthur / Edward Arnold …
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Mein Leben in Luxus …
J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.
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The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sin of Harold Diddlebock
director: Preston Sturges actor: Harold Lloyd / Jimmy Conlin …
other title: Meglio un mercoledì da leone / En tosset onsdag …
Twenty-three years after scoring the winning touchdown for his college football team mild-mannered Harold Diddlebock, who has been stuck in a dull, dead-end book-keeping job for years, is let go by his pompous boss, advertising tycoon J.E. Wagglebury, with nothing but a tiny pension. Harold, who never touches the stuff, takes a stiff drink with his new pal... and another, and another. What happened Wednesday?
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The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
director: Preston Sturges actor: Betty Grable / Cesar Romero …
other title: L'indiavolata pistolera / Mam'zelle Mitraillette …
Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hail the Conquering Hero
director: Preston Sturges actor: Eddie Bracken / Ella Raines …
other title: Evviva il nostro eroe / Heil dem siegreichen Helden …
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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Unfaithfully Yours (1948) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Unfaithfully Yours
director: Preston Sturges actor: Rex Harrison / Linda Darnell …
other title: Infedelmente tua / Odeio-te Meu Amor …
Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his absence. August has hired a private detective to keep tabs on her. But when the private eye's report suggests Daphne might have been canoodling with his secretary, Sir Alfred begins to imagine how he might take his revenge.
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Christmas in July (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Christmas in July
director: Preston Sturges actor: Dick Powell / Ellen Drew …
other title: Un colpo di fortuna / Weihnachten im Juli …
An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.
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The Great McGinty (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Great McGinty
director: Preston Sturges actor: Brian Donlevy / Muriel Angelus …
other title: Il grande McGinty / Der große McGinty …
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
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The Power and the Glory (1933) [Movie] Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
The Power and the Glory
director: William K. Howard actor: Spencer Tracy / Colleen Moore …
other title: Potenza e gloria / Poder y gloria
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.
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If I Were King (1938) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
If I Were King
director: Frank Lloyd actor: Ronald Colman / Basil Rathbone …
other title: Un vagabondo alla corte di Francia / Se Eu Fora Rei …
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.