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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

      1. For paying customers only, but this @lionel_trolling post raises one of my pet theories, that Preston Sturges was a conflicted Keynesian.https://johnganz.substack.com/p/reading-watching-0314 …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

      2. The key biographical fact about Sturges, the explanation for his extraordinary ability to capture the comedy of clashing classes, was that he was an economic yo-yo, going from riches to rags to riches to rags etc.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

      3. Sturges' dad was a stolid stockbroker, his mom a bohemian arty type (& gal pal of Isadora Duncan). So Sturges had a twin inheritance of 19th century stern austerity and modernist expressiveness, which played out in his work

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

      4. One of Sturges' mother-in-laws (he was much married) owned Mar-A-Lago. So the world of the idle rich & rentier class was familiar to him. But he more than once lost a fortune & knew what it was like to have to pawn everything.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

          5. Having been rich & poor more than once, Sturges knew the value of just giving people money, of letting the printing press go brrr as the kids say nowadays. But the stern conscience of his dad was always there as Jiminy Cricket warning him this would undo society

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

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          6. The tension plays out in a lot of Sturges movies. The working stiff wins a lottery in Christmas in July & makes everyone happy but it turns out to be a fraud. The Boss in The Great McGinty spreads the wealth but is a crook.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1175789840492875783 …

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          The bittersweet quality that a lot Preston Sturges' movies end on comes from the fact that he couldn't accept the truth of Keynesian economics.
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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

          7. The conventions of romantic comedy -- where the main couples are often economically mismatched as in Lady Eve and Palm Beach Story -- are particularly useful for exploring mixed feelings about sharing the wealth.

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        5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

          8. In his bones, Sturges knew that society could be re-organized to be more productive, equitable, and happy. But he also knew that meant the rentier world of his father would have to be reined in. Hence the productive tension & sweet melancholy of his work.

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        6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021

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          9. More broadly, a lot of screwball romances of the comedy of remarriage sort are about reordering society. What's wrong with this relationship/marriage is what is wrong with the world.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/327103442894065666 …

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          The dream-boat of the Romantic Comedy is the uncouth rich man, productive but in need of civilizing: i.e. Keynes's view of capitalism.
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        2. Doug Saunders‏Verified account @DougSaunders 14 Mar 2021
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          Was the Florida resort/mansion in Palm Beach Story therefore based on Mar-a-Lago? That movie is already a fable foretelling the Trump ascendency; this would be the cherry

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2021
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          I think it was supposed to be Mar-A-Lago -- should ask a Sturges expert.

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