Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reluctant Genius. Preston's mother was determined that he should be a genius. "I was never allowed," Sturges says, "to play with other kids. They wedged art into me from every side. I was dragged into every goddamn museum in the world." There were gay moments, but they usually stank of culture...
Young Mr. Edison. After the war, Sturges returned to the Maison Desti. He knew a good deal about cosmetics, invented a kissproof lipstick. His mother, in England with a fourth husband, was on the rocks again. She claimed the business; he handed it over and went to work as a free-lance inventor. By the time he was 30 he was about as flat a failure as a man of his age and background could be. Then his appendix ruptured, and saved his life...
Desti Rides Again. Sturges' brilliant, successful yet always deeply self-sabotaging films suggest a warring blend of the things he picked up through respect for his solid stepfather, contact with his strange mother, and the intense need to enjoy himself and to succeed which came from 30 years of misery and failure. From his life with his mother he would seem to have gotten not only an abiding detestation for the beautiful per se, the noble emotion nobly expressed, but also his almost corybantic intelligence. From Solomon Sturges, on the other hand, Preston may have derived his exaggerated respect...
Mickey, who will paint his third mother-in-law washing dishes as soon as he can talk her into posing, remained above criticism. He said he did not care whether any canvases were ever sold, that he painted because he liked...
Artist Doughty's bird-making was interrupted when, after the fall of France, she took a job in the Royal Naval dockyard at Chatham, Kent. Later she was injured at the yards, returned to her porcelain birds in Cornwall. There she lives quietly with her mother, spends most of her days in her studio. The U.S. bird series now numbers ten pairs. Among them: goldfinches, chickadees, indigo buntings, Baltimore Orioles, mockingbirds. One of the fortunate owners of a complete set of Doughty birds: former director of National Audubon Society Mrs. Carll Tucker...