Preston Sturges the same scene. A tender love scene between Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck in "The Lady Eve" was enlivened by a horse, which repeatedly poked its nose into Fonda's head. Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood (such as Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts, however Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts, at a time when those roles were separate. Sturges famously sold the story for "The Great McGinty" to Paramount Pictures for $1, in
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. the film "Honeymoon in Auschwitz," which Leuchter had, in fact, done. On the television series "At the Movies", film critic Roger Ebert said the film was great, strange and provocative, and his co-host Lisa Schwarzbaum called it "amazing." "The Detroit News" wrote that the movie "unmasks the friendly face of evil." Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is a 1999 documentary film by Errol Morris about execution technician Fred A. Leuchter. Using film made at American prisons, Leuchter talked about his upbringing where his