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...Preston Sturges has the ability, all too rare among Hollywood's directors, to understand and to portray sympathetically honest human emotion. He succeeds where others fall, in avoiding the maudlin and trite by weaving just the right amount of humor into a situation. He succeeds so well that it is often a question whether the humorous frame rather than the theme is the dominant note in the motion picture...
Every six months the Comptroller of the Currency, Preston Delano, "a very distant cousin" of the President, dutifully reports the vital statistics on the nation's banks. For the last three years, the assembled figures have grown larger & larger. Last week's report was no exception. Assets of the 14,598 U.S. commercial and savings banks, reported Comptroller Delano, totaled a record-breaking $139.5 billion as of June 30, 1944, a twelve-month gain of $22.3 billion...
...very competent film nor, as entertainment, is it likely to be very successful. But it contains elements which are far superior to competence or success. Indeed, the hope for great films in Hollywood seems just now to be shared about evenly by Val Lewton and by Preston Sturges, with the odds, perhaps, on Lewton. Lewton wholly lacks the Sturges brilliance, adroitness and comic gift; he probably hasn't it in him to make a wow. But his feeling for cinema is quite as deep and spontaneous as that of Sturges, and his feeling for human beings...
With an adeptness rivaling that of Preston Sturges, script-writer Nunnally Johnson has teamed Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright in a fast-moving comedy of briedgrooms-almost-to-be and little-babies-by-former-wives, teeming itself, with mysterious notes from Chicago Maternity Hospitals and half-hour engagements to hotel chamber maids...
Five days later another messenger came. It was 7:30 in the evening. The supper dishes had been washed; Mr. & Mrs. Niland were in the living room with their two daughters and Preston's fiancée, Dorothy Frey. Daughter Clarissa Marie answered the doorbell while the group in the living room sat still. Again the words "The Secretary of War . . . sympathy on the loss of your son Robert...