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Article: Madcap, the Life of Preston Sturges. (A Guide for Bookworms)
- Article from:
- Video Age International
- Article date:
- April 1, 1991
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MADCAP, THE LIFE OF PRESTON STURGES by Donald Spoto (Little, Brown, 301 p.) is that rare kind of biography that not only details the life of a person, but also gets under their skin, and somehow makes clear what released the talent and shaped the personality.
Preston Sturges, whose wit and humor lit up so many of Hollywood's best and most popular films, was something of an eccentric, and came by it honestly. In fact, the opening chapter, dealing with Preston's mother, Mary, a strange lady who spent much of her time in Europe and was a close friend of Isadora Duncan, (it was, in fact, a gift from Mary, a long, silk scarf, that killed the dancer in a freak car ...