The Great McGinty

by Preston Sturges, G E. Richardson, Muriel Angelus Brian

$450 · Offered by Royal Books

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1940. Vintage borderless photograph of Preston Sturges and Muriel Angelus on the set of the 1940 film. Mimeo snipe and Paramount Photo by G.E. Richardson stamp on verso. Sturges had become a very successful Hollywood screenwriter by the late 1930s, and with his screenplay for The Biography of a Bum, wanted so much to direct the film that he offered to do the job for free. With very few exceptions notably Charlie

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