Preston Sturges of Fame, at 1601 Vine Street. Informational notes Citations Bibliography Further reading Films: Preston Sturges Preston Sturges (; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director. In 1941, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film "The Great McGinty", his first of three nominations in the category. Sturges took the screwball comedy format of the 1930s to another level, writing dialogue that, heard today, is often surprisingly naturalistic, mature, and ahead of its time, despite the farcical situations. It is not uncommon for a Sturges
Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence Binka: To Tell a Story about Silence (Bulgarian Бинка. Да разкажеш приказка за мълчанието) is a 2006 documentary film directed by Elka Nikolova. It is 48 minutes in length, and was released in Bulgaria in 2006 and in the United States in 2007. The topic of the film is the life and struggles of Bulgaria's first female film director Binka Zhelyazkova during difficult times politically. The documentary premiered in New York, at the Museum of Modern Art, on April 4, 2007. Later it was shown at many vanues such as the Russian Cultural