Intrepid Laughter: Preston Sturges and the Movies

Notes and References

NOTES AND REFERENCES Preface 1. Eric Jonsson (pseudonym for Andrew Sarris), "Preston Sturges and the Theory of Decline," Film Culture, No. 26 (1962), p. 19. 1 1. Mary Morris, "The Secret of Preston Sturges, " PM, Sunday Picture News, 30 Dec. 1945, p. 14, col. 3. 2. Preston Sturges, Private papers. Courtesy of Mrs. Preston (Sandy) Sturges. 3-4. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 5. Mary Desti, The Untold Story: Duncan, 1921-27 (New York: 22. The Life of Isadora Liveright, 1929), p. 6-7. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 8. Preston Sturges, Private papers. His mother's book is her memoir of the last years of Isadora Duncan, The Untold Story: The Life of Isadora Duncan, 192127 , cited above. 9. Desti, Untold Story, p. 30. 10. Desti, Untold Story, p. 32. 11. Desti, Untold Story, p. 31. 12. Desti, Untold Story, p. 47. 13-25. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 133 134 / Intrepid Laughter 26. Preston Sturges, Private papers. This is, of course, the reference in the opening sequence of The Lady Eve. 27-32. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 33. Alexander King, "Preston Sturges," Vogue, 15 Aug. 1944, p. 177. 34-39. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 40. Preston Sturges, Letter to Mary Desti, 1927, Box 85, Folder 8. This and all other boxes and folders cited are in the Preston Sturges Collection of the Special Collections Library, University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 41. King, p. 177. 42. Paris Singer, Letter to Preston Sturges, 5 July 1927, Box 82, Folder 30. 43. Mary Desti, Letter to Preston Sturges, 31 Oct. 1927, Box 66, Folder 30. 44. Irvin S. Cobb, Letter to Preston Sturges, 23 Feb. 1928, Box 65, Folder 1. 45. Desti, Untold Story, xiv. 46. Desti, Untold Story, xii. 47. Preston Sturges, Letter to Solomon Sturges, 1 Feb. 1930, Box 85, Folder 12. 48. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 49. Chris Chase, "The Year a Star Wasn't Born, " New York Times, Sun. Ed., 5 May 1974, Sec. D,T11, col. 1. 50. Preston Sturges, Letter to Solomon Sturges, 18 March 1930, Box 85, Folder 12. 51. King, p. 178. 52. Carl Laemmle, Letter to Preston Sturges, 7 Dec. 1931, Box 87, Folder 13. Notes and References / 135 53. King, p. 178. 54. Preston Sturges, Letter to the Editor, Hollywood Reporter , 2 March 1933, Box 26, Folder 13. 55. W. S. Van Schmus, Telegram to Carl Laemmle, 30 Jan. 1935, Box 27, Folder 2. 56. Carl Laemmle, Memo to Preston Sturges, 14 July 1937, Box 36, Folder 13. 57. Noel F. Busch, "Preston Sturges," Life, 7 Jan. 1946, p. 92. 58. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 59. Preston Sturges, Letter to J. P. McGowen, 30 Aug. 1940, Box 100, Folder 13. 60. Preston Sturges, Private papers. 61. Box 34, Folder 2. 62. Busch, p. 92. 63. John Huston, Telegraph to Preston Sturges, 26 March 1941, Box 10, Folder 1. 64. Preston Sturges, Letter to Albert Deane, 2 March 1941, Box 39, Folder 2. 65. Preston Sturges, Sullivan's Travels, TS, Theatre Arts Library, Univ. of California, Los Angeles. 66. "Sullivan's Travels," Life, 26 Jan. 1942, p. 51. 67. Box 23, Folder 1. 68. Hermine Isaacs, review of Hail the Conquering Hero, by Preston Sturges, Theatre Arts, 28 (1944), 595-96. 69. Dudley Nichols, Letter to Preston Sturges, 29 Sept. 1944, Box 38, Folder 23. 70. Frank Lloyd Wright, Letter to Preston Sturges, 30 May 1945, Box 89, Folder 8. 71. Ren~ FUlr,p-Miller (1891-1963) was a Rumanian 136 / Intrepid Laughter biographer and author on contemporary politics and modern theatre. Ftil~p-Miller coedited a translation of the diaries of Dostoevski 's wife; edited a volume of hitherto unpublished literary fragments, letters, and reminiscences by Tolstoy; wrote a history of the Russian theatre with special attention to the revolutionary period; and, like Mary Desti, authored a memoir of Isadora Duncan. Triumph over Pain was the first volume of a trilogy intended to deal with the problems of pain, insanity, and death. 72. James Bishop, Letter to Preston Sturges, 6 Dec. 1943, Box 37, Folder 48. 73. Preston Sturges, Unsent handwritten note, 12 Feb. 1944, Box 31, Folder 1. 74. Morris, p. 13, col. 3. 75. Carolyn Stull, "Sturges--Genius Among Geniuses," San Francisco Chronicle, Sun. Ed., 23 May 1948, This World, p. 14, cols. 3-5. 76. Morris, p. 13, col. 4. 77. Preston Sturges, Unsent handwritten note, 25 April 1944, Box 31, Folder 1. 78. Preston Sturges...