Preston Sturges Autographs

Preston Sturges (/ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/; born Edmund Preston Biden; August 29, 1898 – August 6, 1959) was an American playwright, inventor, screenwriter, and film director.
He is credited as being the first screenwriter to find success as a director. Prior to Sturges, other Hollywood directors (such as Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith and Frank Capra) had directed films from their own scripts; however, Sturges is often regarded as the first Hollywood figure to establish success as a screenwriter and then move into directing his own scripts. He sold the story for The Great McGinty to Paramount Pictures for $10 in exchange for directing it. Anthony Lane writes that "To us, that seems old hat, one of the paths by which the ambitious get to run their own show, but back in 1940, when The Great McGinty came out, it was very new hat indeed; the opening credits proclaimed 'Written and directed by Preston Sturges,' and it was the first time in the history of talkies that the two passive verbs had appeared together onscreen. From that conjunction sprang a whole tradition of filmmaking: literate, spiky, defensive, markedly personal, and almost always funny." For that film, Sturges won the first Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Sturges went on to receive Academy Award nominations for The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) and Hail the Conquering Hero (1944). He also wrote and directed The Lady Eve, Sullivan's Travels (both 1941) and The Palm Beach Story (1942), each considered classic comedies, appearing on the American Film Institute's 100 Years...100 Laughs.
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Traded items with a signature of Preston Sturges

The most expensive item with a signature of Preston Sturges (DEWEY ROBINSON—SIGNED PHOTO—8 PRESTON STURGES FILMS•KEATON•Casablanca•LEWTON) was sold in May 2025 for $1,482.60 while the cheapest item (PRESTON STURGES SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS SCREENWRITER VINTAGE SIGNATURE) found a new owner for $10.00 in August 2015. The month with the most items sold (2) was April 2025 with an average selling price of $59.00 for an autographed item of Preston Sturges. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in May 2025 with $982.60 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $10.00 was August 2015. In average, an autographed item from Preston Sturges is worth $130.00.

Most recently, these items with a signature of Preston Sturges were sold on eBay - click here for more items.

Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	ARLENE JUDGE—SIGNED PHOTO—Wesley Ruggles•Preston Sturges•Harold Lloyd•Hal Roach	$82.00
	BRIAN DONLEVY—SIGNED PHOTO—Oscar Nominated Noir Star-2 Preston Sturges McGinty	$45.00
	DEWEY ROBINSON—SIGNED PHOTO—8 PRESTON STURGES FILMS•KEATON•Casablanca•LEWTON	$1,482.60
	DEWEY ROBINSON—SIGNED PHOTO—8 PRESTON STURGES•KEATON•Casablanca•VAL LEWTON	$356.00
	DICK POWELL—SIGNED PHOTO•GOLDDIGGER-MURDER MY SWEET-ANTHONY MANN-PRESTON STURGES	$29.28
	EDDIE BRACKEN—SIGNED PHOTO—3 PRESTON STURGES•Nat Lampoon Vacation•Home Alone	$53.00
	EL BRENDEL —SIGNED PHOTO•WINGS-JUST IMAGINE-PRESTON STURGES-LANGDON-JULES WHITE	$28.43
	EL BRENDEL—SIGNED PHOTO—FOX+PRESTON STURGES•JULES WHITE•LANGDON Comedian	$35.00
	EL BRENDEL—SIGNED PHOTO—HARRY LANGDON Short Subjects•PRESTON STURGES•WINGS	$36.00
	JIMMY CONLIN + DOROTHY RYAN—SIGNED PHOTO—PRESTON STURGES Films	$482.60
	Jimmy CONLIN—SIGNED Photo with COA—Preston Sturges—W C Fields—Laurel+Hardy	$200.10
	LINDA DARNELL—SIGNED PHOTO—Preston Sturges-John Ford-Joe Mankiewicz-Tyrone Power	$280.75
	NORMA TERRIS—SIGNED PHOTO—Magnolia Ziegfeld Showboat—PRESTON STURGES—3 STOOGES	$130.15
	RAYMOND WALBURN—SIGNED PHOTO—Preston Sturges Stock Comedian	$39.99
	ROSCOE ATES—SIGNED 1942 PHOTO—Browning “Freaks”•Preston Sturges•GWTW•Eddie Dean	$246.00