Preston Sturges by Nick Smedley

Author:Nick Smedley
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789380255
Publisher: Intellect Books Ltd
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1 PS, letter to John Parker, 21 June 1955; UCLA PS, Box 36.

2 Diary, 9 August 1954.

3 Marcello Girosi, telegram to PS, 26 April 1955; UCLA PS, Box 36.

4 Correspondence about this is in UCLA PS, Box 41.

5 See letters to PS from Abramson of 24 October and 9 and 14 November 1955; UCLA PS, Box 41.

6 The rest of this chapter, except where noted, is derived from Sturges’ letters to Sandy, with dates as given in the text; SL.

7 PS, letter to John Parker, 21 June 1955; UCLA PS, Box 36.

8 The reference to the title, ‘or something like that’, is in PS, letter to John Parker, 21 June 1955; UCLA PS, Box 36.

9 PS, letter to Sandy, 26 November 1957; SL.

10 These remarks are based on the English language version, known as The French They Are a Funny Race, which was shot simultaneously, with the same actors, and released in the United States in 1957.

11 Jacobs reports that other actors were also considered, including David Niven (as suggested by Sandy in 1954); see Jacobs, Diane (1992), Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges, Los Angeles: University of California Press, p. 423.

12 PS, letter to Sandy, 22 October 1957; SL.

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