Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Rudy Vallee and Betty Grable in The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend Cast : Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan, Porter...

Kurt Kreuger, Linda Darnell, and Rex Harrison in Unfaithfully Yours Cast : Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence, Kurt ...

Diana Lynn, William Demarest, Betty Hutton, and Eddie Bracken in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ...

Christmas in July (Preston Sturges, 1940) Cast : Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest...

Poster with the British title for The Great McGinty The attitude of Hollywood in the studio era toward screenwriters is usually summed u...

What sort of nerve must it have taken to make a film that pokes fun at patriotism, mother love, small towns, political campaigns, and the ...

Easy Living is one of my favorite screwball comedies, but I once had a nightmare that took place in the set designed by Hans Dreier and E...

There are few scenes in movies that I cherish more than the encounter of Gerry (Claudette Colbert) and the Wienie King (Robert Dudley). Th...

Preston Sturges, who was a screenwriter before he became a hyphenated writer-director, has a reputation for verbal wit. It's very much...

Mitchell Leisen directed two films from screenplays by Preston Sturges. The first, Easy Living (1937), is one of the great screwball come...

The sad finale of two great Hollywood careers: Harold Lloyd's and Preston Sturges's. One of the great silent comedians, Lloyd had ...

Let us now praise Joel McCrea, who never became an icon like Cooper or Gable or Grant or Stewart, but could always be relied on for a fine...