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. 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. 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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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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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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I think it was supposed to be Mar-A-Lago -- should ask a Sturges expert.
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