Preston Sturges: An Actor's Actor
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- Preston Struges is French playwright Serge Vitry in "Paris Holiday" (1958) - a star vehicle for Fernandel and Bob Hope. Although Sturges played a studio director in "Sullivans Travels" and a shoeshine patron in "Christmas in July", this was his only significant role. Hollywood's first writer/director, Sturges did not actually write his screenplays as much as act them out for a stenographer to catch in the moment.
There's nothing hammy/fake about Sturges' performance. He's believable, real.
So true. He's one of those rare folks who knows how to "inhabit" a character. See: th-cam.com/video/E5cno2iAAYg/w-d-xo.html
@@JamieJobb He was a jew hating assholes you idiot.
not hammy, actually quite good, I think. Great accent.
That is very true and it stands to reason that this isn't a scene written by Sturges. All you need to do is hear one scene Sturges wrote to understand the difference. Let's hope there's a young Preston developing.
Right here. ( young is relative...)
Yes! Sturges would "write" his screenplays by talking them out and having a secretary transcribe his verbal scenes. This is why his own screenplays sing! And it sure helped his acting, as you point out. All the best.
What a load of bullshit.
Never knew this existed! Great to see Sturges, even if his acting is kind of hammy...
Great job. (Too bad he didn't write the dialogue.)
One more reason that Sturges is my very favorite director. I don't get into the argument if he's the greatest, that's fruitless, but my favorite, 100%. As has been said, he talked out his scripts, often with accents: only way to do it (though if he wasn't directing, there was still no guarantee that the movie would be great). The technique is the same with novels, for many of us; including the accents. His work in this scene is among his best, never for a moment do you detect farce or phoniness; just smooth, wonderful acting and re-acting.
*One quibble with the poster: Sturges didn't appear as a studio director in "Sullivan's Travels": he played an actor involved in a life or death struggle in the scene-within-a-movie that starts the film. Otherwise, THANK YOU for posting this!
Actually the DVD for this movie lists Sturges on the cover, although he's only in this scene. The further you look into Sturges' "writing" the more you realize he was "improvising" his scripts out loud in the evening while a secretary transcribed. So Stuges was actually "acting" out the parts as he was writing them!
It's sad that Sturges was all but forgotten in his later years. So many wonderful classics in such a short time! I could watch them all over and over again.
He pissed off Hollywood becaus e he was a Jew hating asshole.
Eu queria ver uma cena de Anita Ekberg...