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His career marks one of the briefest yet brightest arcs in Hollywood
moviemaking, and, not insignificantly, an early example of a writer
who cashed in his success as a wordsmith for a deserved station
in the director's chair as a master of screwball comedy. Preston
Sturges spun social satire, physical slapstick, and a sharp
ear for snappy dialogue into a small but potent body of enduring
features that transcend their period smarts to confront the human
condition in giddy, wonderful ways. Ahead of the curve, he tackled
changing relations between the sexes and ripe political and social
mores to bracing effect.
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