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  • Restrictions on Access
  • Conditions Governing Use
  • Preferred Citation
  • Immediate Source of Acquisition
  • Processing Information
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Biographical / Historical
  • Scope and Content
  • Arrangement

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Preston Sturges papers
    Creator: Sturges, Preston
    Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1114
    Physical Description: 57.5 Linear Feet (101 boxes and 7 cartons)
    Physical Description: 4 Born-digital Carriers (4 optical discs)
    Physical Description: 6 Audiovisual Carriers (6 videocassettes)
    Date (inclusive): 1920-1959
    Abstract: Preston Sturges (1898-1959) was a inventor, playwright and motion picture writer and director. He wrote the hit Broadway play, Strictly dishonorable (1929), and received a Academy Award for his screenplay, The great McGinty (1940). He lived in Europe for a period of time during the 1950s, and wrote and directed his last film in France in 1955. The collection consists of film scripts, production material, and correspondence related to Sturges' career.
    Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
    Language of Material: Materials are in English.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Conditions Governing Use

    Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
    Reproduction restricted except with permission of the Sturges family.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Preston Sturges papers (Collection 1114). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Immediate Source of Acquisition

    Gift of Mrs. Preston Sturges, 1975.

    Processing Information

    Processed by Charles Ziarko.
    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
    We are committed to providing ethical, inclusive, and anti-racist description of the materials we steward, and to remediating existing description of our materials that contains language that may be offensive or cause harm. We invite you to submit feedback about how our collections are described, and how they could be described more accurately, by filling out the form located on our website: Report Potentially Offensive Description in Library Special Collections.  

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9932223513606533 

    Biographical / Historical

    Born August 29, 1898 in Chicago as Edmond Preston Biden; inventor of kissproof lipstick for mother's cosmetic company; wrote hit Broadway play, Strictly dishonorable, 1929; moved to Hollywood, 1933; worked as screenwriter, and beginning in 1940 as a writer-director of satiric comedies; Academy Award for screenplay The great McGinty, 1940; left Paramount Pictures in 1944, and had a short business association with Howard Hughes, founding California Pictures in mid-1940s; lived in Europe for a period of time during the 1950s, writing and directing his last film in France in 1955; died in New York of heart attack on August 6, 1959.

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of film scripts, production material, and correspondence related to Sturges' career as a playwright and motion picture writer and director.

    Arrangement

    Arranged in the following series:
    1. Film productions.
    2. Production material.
    3. Business and personal material.
    4. Correspondence.
    5. Production scrapbooks.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Film scripts.
    Dramatists, American -- Archives.
    Screenwriters -- United States -- Archives.
    Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Archives.
    Scrapbooks.
    Sturges, Preston--Archives.