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California Pictures Corporation

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  • Sturges, Preston
    Preston Sturges
    / Films of the mid-1940s to mid-1950s

    …joined Howard Hughes in forming California Pictures Corporation. Sturges’s first project for the new company was the screwball comedy The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), starring erstwhile silent star Harold Lloyd. It was given a limited release but then was shelved by Hughes, who edited and reedited the film until…

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    …joined Howard Hughes in forming California Pictures Corporation. Sturges’s first project for the new company was the screwball comedy The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), starring erstwhile silent star Harold Lloyd. It was given a limited release but then was shelved by Hughes, who edited and reedited the film until…

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