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Between Flops: A Biography ofPreston Sturges By James Curtis

Harcourt, 339 pp., $15.95 On August 13 of this year, the New York Times reported that an unpublished play by Preston Sturges (1898-1959) had been optioned as a musical. Shortly after, in observance of the death of Henry Fonda, WNET-TV broadcast The Lady Eve—written and directed by Preston Sturges. So I am convinced that the young lady who remarked to me, “I thought Preston Sturges was a department store,” was merely ill-informed.

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Between Flops: A Biography ofPreston Sturges By James Curtis

Harcourt, 339 pp., $15.95 On August 13 of this year, the New York Times reported that an unpublished play by Preston Sturges (1898-1959) had been optioned as a musical. Shortly after, in observance of the death of Henry Fonda, WNET-TV broadcast The Lady Eve—written and directed by Preston Sturges. So I am convinced that the young lady who remarked to me, “I thought Preston Sturges was a department store,” was merely ill-informed.