TV Guide: Preston Sturges

Video: Sullivan's Travels -- (Movie Clip) Breakfast Is Served!

TCM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Hollywood director Sullivan (Joel McCrea) confesses his identity to "The Girl" (Veronica Lake), who takes revenge in his swimming pool, in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1942.

Video: Sullivan's Travels -- (Movie Clip) O Brother, Where Art Thou?

TCM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is reunited with "The Girl" (Veronica Lake) and his staff, and reconsiders filming "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," in the final scene from Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1942.

Video: Sullivan's Travels -- (Movie Clip) Poverty

TCM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Dismissing his wife on the phone, Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is surprised when butler Burroughs (Robert Grieg) offers a reasoned disapproval of his plan to go hobo, in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1942.

Video: Sullivan's Travels -- (Movie Clip) With A Little Sex

TCM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Joel McCrea (as Sullivan), Robert Warwick (as LeBrand) and Porter Hall (as Hadrian) emerge from a screening for the dazzling single-take first scene from Preston Sturges' Depression comedy Sullivan's Travels 1942.

Video: Sullivan's Travels -- (Movie Clip) Ever Met Lubitsch?

TCM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Hollywood director Sullivan (Joel McCrea), masquerading as a bum, explains to his new wanna-be starlet friend (Veronica Lake) that he's borrowed this car from a director friend, in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, 1942.

Video: Sullivan's Travels -- (Movie Clip) Hobo Montage

TCM — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

A portion of writer-director Preston Sturges' extended sequence in which Hollywood director Sullivan (Joel McCrea) and "The Girl" (Veronica Lake) get their fill of life on the road in Sullivan's Travels, 1942.

Video: Palm Beach Story, The -- (Movie Clip) Bad Habits

TCM — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Over dinner, Gerry (Claudette Colbert) tries to convince spouse Tom (Joel McCrea) that she'd be more help to his career if she posed as his sister, in Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, 1942.

Video: Palm Beach Story, The -- (Movie Clip) John D. Hackensacker III

TCM — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Following their whirlwind meeting on a train, Gerry (Claudette Colbert) gets acquainted with John D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee) on his yacht in Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, 1942.

Video: Palm Beach Story, The -- (Movie Clip) Open, Or Did They?

TCM — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Frantic opening sequence from Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, 1942, features stars Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert, and information vital to the screwball story.

Video: Palm Beach Story, The -- (Movie Clip) Wienie King

TCM — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Destitute Gerry (Claudette Colbert) fails to evade prospective tenant Robert Dudley (as "The Wienie King") in her Park Avenue apartment in Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story, 1942.

Video: We Live Again -- (Movie Clip) Why Did You Kiss Me?

TCM — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Preston Sturges had a hand in the script for Samuel Goldwyn's We Live Again, 1934, in which servant Katusha (Anna Sten) takes instruction from Prince Dmitri (Fredric March).

Video: The Great McGinty - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

A hobo (Brian Donlevy) rises to town mayor when he hooks up with a crooked political boss in Preston Sturges' The Great McGinty (1940).

Video: Sullivan's Travels - (Original Trailer)