Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Preston Sturges was one of Hollywoods great filmmakers. Born Edmund Preston Biden on August, 29 1898 in Chicago, Illinois, he was the first writer to direct his own script, and thus the credit "written and directed by" first appeared before his name in The Great McGinty. He won the first Academy Award ever given for Writing Original Screenplay for that script. He died August, 6 1959 in New York. Table of contents 1 Feature-Films Filmography 2 Awards 3 External links Feature-Films Filmography The Great McGinty (1940) Awards Best Writing Original Screenplay, 1940 Academy Award External links Official Preston Sturges Site This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.