
August 29, 1898 · 127 years old
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Preston Sturges (29 August 1898 – 6 August 1959), originally Edmund Preston Biden, was a celebrated playwright, screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. In 1941 he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film The Great McGin…

Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.

A beautiful 17th-century witch returns to life to plague politician Wallace Wooley, descendant of her persecutor.

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.

When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.

A European princess arrives in New York City to secure a much-needed loan for her country. She contracts the mumps, and an actress who looks exactly like her is hired to impersonate her.

Temperamental saloon singer Freddie Jones jealously shoots at her cheating boyfriend Blackie, but mistakenly hits Judge Alfalfa J. O'Toole's honorable behind, forcing her to skip town under the guise of a schoolteacher.

Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.

A wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other.

American actor, Bob Hunter, travels to Paris to purchase the rights to a highly sought-after script, and meets his French counterpart Fernydel along the way, but a sinister organization seems to be targeting Hunter for a mysteriou...