The Good Fairy

This is a delightful comedy written by Preston Sturgis.Not as complex as Sullivan's Travels but very satisfying and starring a different Sullavan(Margaret). The most fascinating aspect for me,though,had nothing to do with the charming story.The character of Konrad (Sullavan's benefactor)is... Full review

It's amazing that this film is so little known, since it represents the joint effort of some of Hollywood's best-known talents resulting in a 1930s comedy classic.The story, set in Budapest, is a frothy, glittering comedy strongly reminiscent of Lubitsch... Full review

Margaret Sullavan plays a lady who was just released into the world from an orphan asylum where she had spent her entire life. As a result, she's incredibly naive about the world. She soon meets nice-guy Reginald Owen decides to... Full review

Before "Christmas In July" and "The Great McGinty" Preston Sturgis was a screenplay writer - one of the two great screenplay writers of the 1930s who graduated into very respectable directorial careers (the other being Billy Wilder, of course). Oddly... Full review

I'm a fan of Preston Sturges, and I was brought to this movie by his screenplay credit, not knowing if that would be enough to make this a movie I was going to enjoy. GOOD NEWS! This movie is a... Full review

Don't let the title or director give you the wrong idea; THE GOOD FAIRY is a snappy and sophisticated example of the kind of civilized lunacy for which screenwriter (and later director) Preston Sturges became so well-known. Yes, it's adapted... Full review

This sparkling comedy may well deserve the title of Best Kept Secret of the '30s: it's a delight in every department yet somehow remains all but unknown, even among film buffs. Based on a play by Ferenc Molnár, THE GOOD... Full review

I am always amazed with the talent of Preston Sturgis. He is a true painter of WORDS, a tunesmith of dialog and staging. In this early William Wyler Universal film using Preston Sturgis screen play we have scene after scene... Full review

This has long been director William Wyler's hardest-to-find classic, a truly nutty, thoroughly charming romantic comedy written by the incomparable Preston Sturges (and very loosely based on a Ferenc Molnar play). All the Sturges touches that would later be his... Full review

The story of a naif who goes out into the world, skirts calamity (i.e. seduction, in the guise of Frank Morgan, no less), and finds true love (Herbert Marshall, who likewise should be better remembered--he'd a been a bigger star... Full review

If you think the western is dead, you should take a look at the screwball comedy genre. This movie genre flourished during the 30s and early 40s, directed by such big names as Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder and Frank Capra... ... Full Article

Generally, the '30s movies, being mostly adaptations, are less screwball-absurd than Sturges's later work, but there is something more remarkable, a three-dimensional sense of empathy and humanism. ... Full Article

Follow the yellow brick road again! Young Dorothy lives on a farm in Kansas where a large tornado picks her house, and her dog up and deposits them in the land of Oz. ... Full Article

Margaret Sullavan graduates from a girl's orphanage to an usherette's job at a Budapest movie theatre. Bibulous millionaire Frank Morgan makes a play for Margaret, but she keeps him at arm's length by picking a name from the phone book... ... Full Article