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Foreword by Peter BogdanovichPreface by Nick Smedley  Part IThe Preludes: The Brilliant Career of Preston Sturges, 1940-1949 - A Critical Survey of His Hollywood Films1. Beginnings2. The Emergence of a Genius3. Sturges Triumphant4. A Sputtering Flame: The Final Hollywood Films5. Conclusion: The Brilliant Career of Preston Sturges Part IIThe Last Years of Preston Sturges, 1949-1959Chapter 1: A Fallen Giant: Adjusting to the New, 1949-1950Chapter 2: Back to the Future: Broadway and Paramount, 1951-1952Chapter 3: Sturges' Travels: Farewell to America, 1953Chapter 4: The Millionairess and the Major: Sturges Returns to Paris, 1954Chapter 5: Americans in Paris: Filming Major Thompson, 1955Chapter 6: American Gangster: The Trials and Tribulations of Independent Film Production, 1956-1957Chapter 7: Farcical Manoeuvres, 1957-1958 Chapter 8: New York, New York: Public Hopes, Private Griefs, 1957Chapter 9: For Better or For Worse: Marital Tensions, 1957-1958Chapter 10: Sliding Towards the Brink, January-July 1958Chapter 11: The Road to Despair, July-December 1958Chapter 12: The Conquering Hero: Return to New York, January-March 1959Chapter 13: Triumph over Pain: The Last Happy Months of Preston Sturges, March-August 1959Chapter 14: The Events Have Led Up to His Death, August 1959  Afterword by P. G. SturgesAppendix 1: Fabulous Inventions Appendix 2: Story Ideas

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Few directors of the 1930s and '40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich and endorsements from Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Shelton, and James L. Brooks, this book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges's whole oeuvre, closing with a detailed study of his life, developed from new primary sources, from 1949 until his death in 1959. Nick Smedley details the many unfinished projects of Sturges's last decade, including films, plays, TV series, and his autobiography. Drawing on diaries, sketchbooks, correspondence, unpublished screenplays, and more, Smedley presents Sturges's final years in more detail than we've ever had, showing a master still at work--even if very little of that work ultimately made it to the screen

Preston Sturges : the last years of Hollywood's first writer-director