Fun Trivia : Sturges, Preston

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Sturges, Preston

Preston Sturges was also an amateur _____?

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inventor. According to the Internet Movie Data Base, Sturges invented a kiss-proof lipstick, a ticker tape machine, an intaglio photo-etching process, and an automobile.



Preston Sturges wrote the screenplay for the 1938 film "If I Were King", which featured Ronald Colman as which famous poet?

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Francois Villon. The movie stars Colman as the famous vagabond poet who is appointed by the King to the position of Grand Constable . . . as punishment! The film also starred Basil Rathbone as King Louis XI and Francis Dee as Ketherine De Vaucelles.



Written and Directed by Preston Sturges, the 1940 film "Christmas in July" features Dick Powell as a young man who thinks he did what?

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Won a fortune in a contest. Powell portrays Jimmy MacDonald, who wants to win a coffee slogan contest so that he can afford to marry his fiance. He becomes the victim of an office joke when some of his co-workers forge a letter telling him that he won the $25,000 in the coffee slogan contest, for his slogan "If you can't sleep at night it isn't the coffee-it's the bunk"! Problems develop when he goes about spending the money.



In 1941, Preston Sturges wrote a great romantic comedy for Barbara Stanwyck. What was the name of that movie?

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The Lady Eve. Barbara Stanwyck starred in all these movies: "Double Indemnity" in 1944, and "Ball of Fire" and "Meet John Doe" in 1941. However, one of her best roles was as Jean Harrington/Eve in "The Lady Eve". She plays a card sharp who meets Henry Fonda, the son of a wealthy brewer, on ship returning from the Amazon. Stanwyck and her father think Fonda makes the perfect pigeon, but before they can reel in their prey, Stanwyck falls in love with Fonda.



In Preston Sturges' 1944 film "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek", who stars as the young lady in trouble, who can only be saved by a miracle?

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Betty Hutton. Betty Hutton plays Trudy Kockenlocker, a small town girl who gets drunk at a party one night and wakes up the next morning with the vague feeling that she got married to a soldier at the party. The soldier has vanished, but her sometime boyfriend Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken) comes to the rescue. Norval and Trudy find themselves in one mix-up after the other and it takes a miracle to rescue them.



In Preston Sturges' 1945 film "Hail the Conquering Hero", Eddie Bracken stars as a young man returning to his home town after World War II. Where did he spend the war?

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Working in a shipyard. Eddie Bracken plays Woodrow Truesmith who always wanted to be a marine like his father, who was killed in world War I. When war breaks out, he leaves his hometown to enlist, but he is claasified 4-F due to hay fever. He is too ashamed to return home, so he spends the war working in a shipyard, sending letters through friends from the Pacific to his mother. When the war ends, he is hesitant to go home, but some real marines returning from Guadalcanal listen to his story, and then call his mother and tell her that he was a real hero. Problems arise when he arrives home and steps off the train to a hero's welcome.



In the 1948 comedy "Unfaithfully Yours", who stars as the conductor who becomes convinced his wife is having an affair?

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Rex Harrison. Harrison plays a famous British conductor who loves his wife played by Linda Darnell. However, he becomes jealous and begins to believe that she is unfaithful. Harrison devises three elaborate murderous plans to get even.