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Title: Preston Sturges papers
Date (inclusive): 1920-1959
Collection number: 1114
Creator:
Sturges, Preston
Extent:
101 boxes (50.5 linear ft.)
7 cartons (7 linear ft.)
1 oversize box
Abstract: Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a inventor, playwright and motion picture writer and director. He wrote the hit Broadway play,
Strictly dishonorable (1929), and received a Academy Award for his screenplay,
The great McGinty (1940). He lived in Europe for a period of time during the 1950s, and wrote and directed his last film in France in 1955.
The collection consists of film scripts, production material, and correspondence related to Sturges' career.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Reproduction restricted except with permission of Sandy Sturges.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Mrs. Preston Sturges, 1975.
[Identification of item], Preston Sturges papers (Collection Number 1114). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, UCLA.
Born August 29, 1898 in Chicago as Edmond Preston Biden; inventor of kissproof lipstick for mother's cosmetic company; wrote
hit Broadway play,
Strictly dishonorable, 1929; moved to Hollywood, 1933; worked as screenwriter, and beginning in 1940 as a writer-director of satiric comedies;
Academy Award for screenplay
The great McGinty, 1940; left Paramount Pictures in 1944, and had a short business association with Howard Hughes, founding California Pictures
in mid-1940s; lived in Europe for a period of time during the 1950s, writing and directing his last film in France in 1955;
died in New York of heart attack on August 6, 1959.
Collection consists of film scripts, production material, and correspondence related to Sturges' career as a playwright and
motion picture writer and director.
Arranged in the following series:
- Film productions.
- Production material.
- Business and personal material.
- Correspondence.
- Production scrapbooks.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Sturges, Preston--Archives.
Motion picture producers and directors--United States--Archival resources.
Screenwriters--United States--Archival resources.
Dramatists, American--Archival resources.
Film scripts.
Scrapbooks.