Preston Sturges's biography
Preston Sturges is 61 years old film director born at Chicago. He was born on Monday 29th of August 1898. According to year of birth 1898 he belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 29th of August means he is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.
He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be film director. You can know him also as screenwriter, writer, autobiographer, playwright, actor. He is recently known as film producer. He received Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay The Great McGinty in 1940
Preston Sturges's family
Preston Sturges's ex spouse
Eleanor Post Hutton
Preston Sturges and Eleanor Post Hutton have been together since 1930 for 2 years.
Preston Sturges's schools
We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: Lycée Janson-de-Sailly.
Preston Sturges's career
His main focus is to be film director.
How did Preston Sturges die
He died on on Thursday 6th of August 1959 when he was 61 years old at New York City. Preston Sturgess death was caused by heart attack. It happend like natural causes.
Awards and competitions
Preston Sturges's Awards
- He received award for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay for work The Great McGinty in 1940
Preston Sturges's Nominations
- He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
What Preston Sturges has done for a first time
- In the sound era he was the first great writer to became a director.
- He was the first of the writer directors and was soon followed by such as John Huston, Billy Wilder, Nunnally Johnson, Samuel Fuller and Blake Edwards.
Preston Sturges's quotes
- I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.
- You can't go around the theaters handing out cards saying, "It isn't my fault". You go on to the next one.
- The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.
- When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten-cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.
- Cold are the hands of time that creep along relentlessly, destroying slowly, but without pity, that which yesterday was young. Alone our memories resist this disintegration and grow more lovely with the passing years.
- [when asked by a writer to compose his own epitaph] Now I've laid me down to die / I pray my neighbors not to pry / too deeply into sins that I / not only cannot here deny / but much enjoyed as time flew by.
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Preston Sturges's body shape
Lets describe how Preston Sturges looks. We will focus on his body shape. Body build is average.