An Elite Worth Joining
David Trotter: Preston Sturges, 13 April 2023
Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges
by Stuart Klawans.
Columbia, 366 pp., £22, January,978 0 231 20729 4 Show More
by Stuart Klawans.
Columbia, 366 pp., £22, January,
“... influence exerted on Sturges by his two surrogate fathers. ‘He was conservative in politics,’ Stuart Klawans observes, ‘after the fashion of moneyed people who resent paying taxes, and proudly cynical.’Although scarcely definitive as an account of the life, the autobiography does establish and maintain a revealing tone. Facetiousness – a form ... ”
