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Article: STURGES CREATED TOP-NOTCH FILMS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 17, 1988
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In 1947, Preston Sturges, according to the Internal Revenue
Service, earned the third-largest salary in the United States. His
$327,000 income ranked him just behind the presidents of National
Theatres and the American Tobacco Co.
A few years later, he had to borrow money to get his clothes
back from the cleaners. Money, for Sturges, was meant to be spent
when you had it and borrowed when you didn't. In his lifetime,
Preston Sturges, who was born in 1898, would earn more than $3
million and die broke in 1959.
"He was truly a Renaissance figure," said his friend and
colleague Billy Wilder, as quoted in James Curtis' "Between Flops"
(Limelight Editions, New York, $9.95), an excellent ...