* 1898 – Preston Sturges, American director and producer ( d. 1959 )

Also sung by Jess Lee Brooks in the 1941 Preston Sturges film Sullivan's Travels.

* The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), d. Preston Sturges

* The Palm Beach Story ( 1942 ), d. Preston Sturges

* Preston Sturges

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* August 6 – Preston Sturges, American film director and writer ( b. 1898 )

* August 29 – Preston Sturges, American director and writer ( d. 1959 )

He also wrote the Iran-contra satire Mastergate, as well as Sly Fox and a musical adaptation of the Preston Sturges movie Hail the Conquering Hero ; during that show's troubled development Gelbart uttered the now-classic line, " If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical.

The story of a man's rise to prosperity, written by Preston Sturges, Tracy's performance as railroad tycoon Tom Garner received uniformly strong reviews.

He then played opposite Barbara Stanwyck in Preston Sturges ' The Lady Eve ( 1941 ), and again teamed with Tierney in the successful screwball comedy Rings on Her Fingers ( 1942 ).

Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges.

* This was the sixth of ten films written by Preston Sturges that William Demarest appeared in.

* Preston Sturges has a cameo appearance as the film director in the scene set in a film studio where The Girl sees Sullivan's picture in the paper and recognizes him.

" The New Yorkers review said that " anyone can make a mistake, Preston Sturges, even.

Category: Films directed by Preston Sturges

The Lady Eve is a 1941 American screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, and starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda.

According to Donald Spoto in Madcap: The Life of Preston Sturges, Sturges " invariably paraded on set with a colorful beret or a felt cap with a feather protruding, a white cashmere scarf blowing gaily round his neck and a print shirt in loud hues ... the reason for the peculiar outfits, he told visitors, was that they facilitated crew members finding him amid the crowds of actors, technicians, and the public.

Preston Sturges received a co-writer credit for the film, although he did not actually participate in the project.

Category: Films directed by Preston Sturges

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek is a 1944 screwball comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges, starring Eddie Bracken and Betty Hutton, and featuring Diana Lynn, William Demarest and Porter Hall.

Preston Sturges received a credit for that film, but did not actually participate in the project.

* This was the first time Preston Sturges and Eddie Bracken worked together on a feature film, although Bracken had appeared in Safeguarding Military Information, a 1942 propaganda short that Sturges wrote.

Preston served as a journalist and essayist throughout his life.

Monument off U. S. Highway 83 to George Preston Humphreys ( 1899-1979 ), the manager of the 6666 Ranch, who also served as King County sheriff from 1928-1948

Preston Bynum, a lobbyist in Little Rock, served as the state representative from Siloam Springs from 1969 to 1980.

While New Preston village once had its own post office, it is now served by a combined New Preston-Marble Dale post office, which is located in Marble Dale, and also serves the southern portion of the Town of Warren.

Taylor ’ s bridge served the new tide of westward migration and travel in the region that followed the military suppression of Shoshone resistance at the Bear River Massacre near Preston, Idaho in 1863.

* Preston Smith, a Democrat, served as governor of Texas from 1969-1973.

He served as a member of the House of Commons of Parliament for a number of years, sitting for the seats of Midhurst and Preston.

As a volunteer he served in Dormer's regiment at the Battle of Preston in 1715, spent some time on the Continent, and in 1717 entered Parliament for Seaford in Sussex which he represented until 1722.

Fitzhugh served as president until his death in 1904, upon which his heirs sold the college to Dr. J. R. Preston, who operated the school until it was again destroyed by a fire in 1910.

Preston served as Executive Director until the spring of 1975, at which time he was appointed Secretary-Treasury of WEFA Inc. During Preston's tenure as Executive Director, WEFA Inc not only expanded its sponcership of the Wharton Quarterly Model, but also developed the Wharton Annual and Industry Forecasting Model which integrated input-output theory within the structure of a macro-econometric model.

The Walkers served for a time as president and matron of the Salt Lake Temple and as of 2010 began presiding over the Missionary Training Center in Preston, England.

Birkdale is served by frequent buses run by Arriva ( to Southport, Formby and Liverpool ), Cumfybus, and Stagecoach ( to Liverpool and Preston ).

Grange-over-Sands railway station, which serves the town, was opened by the Ulverston and Lancaster Railway on 1 September 1857 and is now served by the Furness Line, giving connections to Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness to the west, and Lancaster, Preston and Manchester ( and its airport ) to the east.

The Preston family descends from Sir Robert Preston, who served as Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

Other ring announcers in WCCW included George Preston ( 1960s ), Joe Rinelli ( from the 1960s until 1988 ) and Ralph Pulley ( mid-1980s ), who also served as a referee for a time.

Summers served as host of " Drunk Double Dare " during Drunk Day, an annual episode of the Philadelphia-based Preston and Steve radio show on WMMR, held directly before the Fourth of July weekend.

Thornbury is well served by public transport, with Thornbury Station on the South Morang railway line, and two tram lines: services along High Street ( tram route 86 ) connecting to the Bundoora Campus of RMIT to the City, and along St Georges Road ( tram route 112 ) from Miller Street, past the Preston Tram Workshops and on to the City and St Kilda.

The town is now served by Burnley & Pendle bus services from Accrington, Burnley, Nelson, Colne and beyond, and Lancashire United service 152 from Burnley, Blackburn and Preston.

Clifton is on the line to Bolton and Preston ; Swinton, Moorside and Walkden are on the Manchester to Southport Line via Wigan ; and Salford Central and Salford Crescent are served by both routes.

Buses run to destinations throughout the city, across Greater Manchester and further afield: Pendleton is served by a route to Preston, while the Eccles Interchange, next to the Metrolink stop, has a service to Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

Preston Earnest Smith ( March 8, 1912October 18, 2003 ) was the 40th Governor of Texas from 1969 to 1973, who earlier served as the lieutenant governor from 1963 to 1969.

The Confederate armies were commanded mainly by professional Irish soldiers such as Thomas Preston and Owen Roe O ' Neill, who had served in the Spanish army in the Eighty Years ' War and Thirty Years ' War.

* Wickliffe Preston Draper, heir to a large fortune and the fund's de facto final authority, served on the Board of Directors from 1937 until 1972.

He served as a Presidential Elector for the Horatio Seymour / Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Democratic ticket in the 1868 election.