I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.

Sturges said "It's taken me eight years to reach what I wanted. So I left. That the invariable fairy godfather of each picture is not only expressive of his own cold-blooded cynicism but of typical Hollywood fantasy is an example of how this works.

See for example the disruption of standardized timelines in films such as The Power and the Glory and The Great McGinty or the way an apparently classical comedy such as Unfaithfully Yours (1948) shifts into the realm of multiple and hypothetical narratives. Preston Sturges (August 29 1898 – August 6 1959) originally Edmund Preston Biden was an American playwright screenwriter and film director born in Chicago Illinois. W.