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  • Marriage of Inconvenience: Preston Sturges and The Palm Beach Story

    03/29/2026 10:42:56 AM PDT · by Twotone · 5 replies
    SteynonLine ^ | March 28, 2026 | Rick McGinnis
    In Preston Sturges' posthumous memoir Sturges by Sturges, finished by his widow Sandy and published in 1990, the director recounts an outlandish story from his childhood that would end up inspiring one of the most chaotic sequences in his 1942 screwball masterpiece The Palm Beach Story. His mother, a socially and culturally ambitious woman who was friends with dancer Isadora Duncan and had an affair with satanist Aleister Crowley, had brought him to Dresden while she worked on an operetta and the two of them (plus maid) were heading back to Paris in a train compartment stuffed with masses of...