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Writer: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges won the first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for The Great McGinty, and wrote and directed Sullivan’s Travels, The Lady Eve and The Palm Beach Story. He was the first writer in Hollywood to be given a directing contract, which he obtained by selling a script for a dollar on that condition.

Remember the Night (1940) film posterPreston Sturges

Remember the Night (1940)

A prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love. Remember the Night is Mitchell Leisen's 1940 American romantic drama about a Manhattan prosecutor who postpones a shoplifter's trial until…

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