Born on this day – Preston Sturges:

Preston Sturges

Writer

Director

August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959

Credits:

American Masters (1990); Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940); Child of Manhattan (1933); Christmas in July (1940); College Swing (1938); Diamond Jim (1935); Easy Living (1937); Fast and Loose (1930); Hail the Conquering Hero (1944); Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982); Hotel Haywire (1937); Houdini (1953); I Married a Witch (1942); If I Were King (1938); I'll Be Yours (1947); Imitation of Life (1934); La grande mare (1930); Love Before Breakfast (1936); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1955); Never Say Die (1939); New York Town (1941); Next Time We Love (1936); Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014); One Rainy Afternoon (1936); Paris Holiday (1958); Port of Seven Seas (1938); Preston Sturges and 'the Miracle of Morgan's Creek' (2005); Reflets de Cannes (1954); Remember the Night (1939); Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958); Safeguarding Military Information (1942); Star Spangled Rhythm (1942); Strictly Dishonorable (1931); Sullivan's Travels (1941); The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949); The Big Pond (1930); The Birds and the Bees (1956); The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955); The Good Fairy (1935); The Great McGinty (1940); The Great Moment (1944); The Invisible Man (1933); The Lady Eve (1941); The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943); The Palm Beach Story (1942); The Power and the Glory (1933); The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947); They Just Had to Get Married (1932); Thirty Day Princess (1934); Twentieth Century (1934); Unfaithfully Yours (1984); Vendetta (1950); We Live Again (1934); Welcome to the Basement (2012).