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Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Cardsharps, False Identities, and Pratfalls: A Preston Sturges Primer by Erica Lies

Writer-director hyphenates are ubiquitous in comedy today, but it was virtually unheard of during the studio film era until a popular playwright named Preston Sturges convinced Paramount to …

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