Preston Sturges
Preston Sturges was one of
Hollywoods great filmmakers.
Born Edmund Preston Biden on August, 29
1898 in
Chicago,
Illinois, he was the first writer to direct his own script, and thus the credit "written and directed by" first appeared before his name in
The Great McGinty.
He won the first
Academy Award ever given for
Writing Original Screenplay for that script.
He died August, 6
1959 in
New York.
Feature-Films Filmography
- The Great McGinty (1940)
Awards
External links
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