Preston Sturges - Adaptations

Adaptations

• Three of Sturges' films, Christmas in July, The Great McGinty and Remember the Night, were restaged for NBC's Lux Video Theater.
• The 1956 George Gobel movie The Birds and the Bees was a remake of The Lady Eve. Paul Jones produced both movies.
• The 1958 Jerry Lewis vehicle Rock-A-Bye Baby was loosely based on Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek.
• The 1984 Dudley Moore feature Unfaithfully Yours was a remake of Sturges' 1948 original.