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Sturges' life was every bit as antic and unconventional as his movies: from growing up in Europe with a mother whose best friend was Isadora Duncan, to making his way among the beau monde of New York - and inventing kiss-proof lipstick along the way. This is also the story of Sturges' resistence to the Hollywood studio system that sought to pigeonhole his talent. 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Humorous, sophisticated, and superbly crafted, the cinema of Preston Sturges maintains an enduring presence in the small canon of films that enjoy critical acclaim, scholarly attention, and popular admiration. Following the enthusiastic reception of Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges, the University of California Press returns with Four More. This volume contains three scripts widely regarded as among the filmmaker's best: \"The Palm Beach Story\", \"The Miracle of Morgan's Creek\", and \"Unfaithfully Yours\". Based on the actual shooting scripts rather than the final screen versions, these screenplays contain scenes that were not filmed or that disappeared on the cutting room floor. In the fourth script, \"Triumph over Pain\/The Great Moment\", Sturges dramatizes the career of W.T.G. Morton, the doctor who first demonstrated the use of ether and thus revolutionized surgery. Arguably the most important biographical film project of the 1940s, this film was recut and rearranged by Paramount before it was released. By reprinting Sturges' original script and explaining its transformation, Brian Henderson has, in effect, discovered a new work by Sturges. In the introductions that precede each screenplay, Henderson examines every important aspect of the screenplay's composition. He analyzes Sturges' process of constant revision, discusses variant drafts and fragments of drafts, and describes the writer\/director's relations with Paramount executives, the Church, the Hayes Office, and Darryl Zanuck. Alone or as a companion to the earlier volume, this work will be welcomed by scholars, film buffs, screenplay writers, and admirers of Preston Sturges.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50122567713041,"sku":"CIN0520203658G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50636785942801,"sku":"GOR006607472","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53115612627217,"sku":"CIN0520203658VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520203658.jpg?v=1750815299"},{"product_id":"five-screenplays-by-preston-sturges-book-preston-sturges-9780520055643","title":"Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges","description":"Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Sturges, who has been called \"Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former.\" The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called \"one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema.\"  They are astonishingly readable and deliciously funny. 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