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 ...

"Sandy" Sturges, 79, the widow of filmmaker Preston Sturges who used his letters and diaries to complete his autobiography, died Nov. 28 at her home in Manhattan Beach, Calif. She had cancer. Preston ...

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 ...

Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.

“I’ve always been sensible and good,” cries Isabelle Parry (Keilly McQuail), a Southern belle getting her first taste of the wicked big city. Now our ingenue just wants to drink old-fashioneds, free ...

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Among the filmmakers of early Hollywood, one in particular stands out: Preston Sturges, whose legacy comprises just 10 films he made between 1940 and 1948, had a career remarkable for its brilliance, ...

"AT the present writing, what with throwing away stuff I haven't liked, I have about forty pages of shooting script," Preston Sturges wrote to an anxious Darryl F. Zanuck in 1947. "This need not alarm ...