Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 20, 2021 1:06:45 GMT
No other film makers could approach the antic and off-kilter creativity of screenwriter/director Preston Sturges, who could be counted upon to dream up his own peculiar brands of chaos. Some examples:
The Palm Beach Story - Convinced she's holding husband Joel McCrea back from attaining success, Claudette Colbert makes up her mind to divorce him and snag a wealthy husband who will then finance McCrea's invention. In short order, she's met willing multimillionaire Rudy Vallee, but McCrea pursues her to Vallee's Florida estate, where she then passes him off as her brother, under the guise of which he's in turn pursued by Vallee's madcap sister Mary Astor.
The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek - After marrying a departing soldier whom she can't remember thanks to a bump on the head, small-town girl Betty Hutton finds herself pregnant and, aided by erstwhile boyfriend Eddie Bracken and younger sister Barbara Lynn, schemes to avoid scandal before her hot-tempered policeman father William Demarest learns of her predicament.
Unfaithfully Yours - When a mix-up leads brilliant symphony conductor Rex Harrison to suspect wife Linda Darnell has been unfaithful, he daydreams during a concert of various ways to deal with the situation and, settling upon the most severe option, sets out to put his plan into action, with hilariously disastrous - if harmless - results.
The Palm Beach Story - Convinced she's holding husband Joel McCrea back from attaining success, Claudette Colbert makes up her mind to divorce him and snag a wealthy husband who will then finance McCrea's invention. In short order, she's met willing multimillionaire Rudy Vallee, but McCrea pursues her to Vallee's Florida estate, where she then passes him off as her brother, under the guise of which he's in turn pursued by Vallee's madcap sister Mary Astor.
The Miracle Of Morgan's Creek - After marrying a departing soldier whom she can't remember thanks to a bump on the head, small-town girl Betty Hutton finds herself pregnant and, aided by erstwhile boyfriend Eddie Bracken and younger sister Barbara Lynn, schemes to avoid scandal before her hot-tempered policeman father William Demarest learns of her predicament.
Unfaithfully Yours - When a mix-up leads brilliant symphony conductor Rex Harrison to suspect wife Linda Darnell has been unfaithful, he daydreams during a concert of various ways to deal with the situation and, settling upon the most severe option, sets out to put his plan into action, with hilariously disastrous - if harmless - results.