Of all the stupid vanities in a business that specializes in stupid vanities, the possessory credit takes the cake. That credit is the one that appears at the top of a film saying, “A film by _____,” ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

There is a haunting photograph near the end of the new book “Preston Sturges: The Last Years of Hollywood’s First Writer-Director,” by Nick Smedley and the filmmaker’s youngest son, Tom. It’s a ...

Anne Margaret “Sandy” Sturges, who used the unfinished manuscript of an autobiography by her late husband, film auteur Preston Sturges, as the basis for the book “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges,” ...

A satire that chastises Hollywood for its blinkered moralizing yet espouses on the value of escapism, Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels” may seem like a film rife with contradictions, but not only ...

COMEDY, drama, mystery – Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels” has it all. Joel McCrea, mostly known for Westerns like “The Virginian” and “Ride the High Country,” plays star Hollywood director John L ...

The Trump years are over, the pandemic is winding down, and as Americans slowly return to what’s left of our normal lives, many of us are carrying a lot fewer illusions about the nature of our ...

Preston Sturges’s film “The Palm Beach Story” (1942) starts with the strains of the William Tell Overture, a maid fainting, a priest waiting exasperatedly at an altar, Joel McCrea hailing a cab in a ...

How many Broadway shows has Preston Sturges been in? Preston Sturges has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Preston Sturges been in? Preston Sturges has not appeared in the ...

"I discovered that's really what I was meant to do," Shannon Sturges, who now owns the Speiser/Sturges Acting Studio, tells PEOPLE of teaching As the daughter of actors Colette Jackson and Solomon ...