*The Power and the Glory (screenplay, 1933*) Spencer Tracy, Colleen Moore. A businessman's rise to power is chronicled in flashbacks. *The Great McGinty (1940, MCA) Brian Donlevy, Akim Tamiroff. The story of a bum who enters the political arena, it was Sturges' first directing assignment.

*Christmas in July (1940, MCA) Dick Powell, Ellen Drew. A man who thinks he has won $25,000 in a contest goes on a spending spree.

*The Lady Eve (1941, MCA) Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda. A cardsharp plays her way across the Atlantic on a luxury liner.

*Sullivan's Travels (1942, MCA) Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake. A disillusioned film director goes in search of real-life stories for inspiration.

*The Palm Beach Story (1942, MCA) Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Rudy Vallee. A bored wife heads south to find a millionaire to entertain her.

*The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944, Paramount) Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken. A small-town girl does her patriotic duty with a soldier she meets at a dance.

*Hail the Conquering Hero 1944*) Eddie Bracken, William Demarest. A young man is mistakenly given a hero's welcome home.

*The Great Moment (1944*) Joel McCrea, Betty Field, William Demarest. A % biography of the inventor of anesthesia.

*Unfaithfully Yours (1948, CBS/Fox Video) Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell. A conductor thinks his wife is having an affair.

*The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949, Key) Betty Grable, Cesar Romero. A saloon singer in the old West accidentally shoots a sheriff.

* The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1997, KVC) Harold Lloyd, Jimmy Conlin. A jobless bookkeeper has a night on the town. Recut in 1950 as Mad Wednesday.

*not available on videotape


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