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   Sullivan's Travels

   Sullivan's Travels is a 1941 American comedy film written and directed by Preston Sturges. It is a satire about a movie director, played by Joel McCrea, who longs to make a socially relevant drama, but eventually learns that comedies are a more valuable contribution to society.
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   Preston Sturges

   There are some wonderful pictures to be made, and God willing, I will make some of them." ... Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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   Barton Fink

   Other movies which influenced Barton Fink are Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining and Sullivan's Travels (1941) by filmmaker Preston Sturges.
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   The Palm Beach Story

   This was Sturges' second collaboration with Joel McCrea, following Sullivan's Travels from the previous year and they would work together again on The Great Moment, which was filmed in 1942 (but released in 1944).
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   Veronica Lake

   This success was followed by Hold Back the Dawn later that year. ... | from the trailer for Sullivan's Travels (1941) |
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   O Brother, Where Art Thou?

   In addition to this, there are a few characters in the film that share names with similar characters in the Odyssey: ... ↑ "Sullivan's Travels (1941)".
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   Joel McCrea

   with Veronica Lake in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941)
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   Robert Greig (actor)

   | publicity photo from Sullivan's Travels (1941) | ... Australian stage actors
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   The Great Moment (1944 film)

   ↑ Demarest appeared in Diamond Jim (1935), Easy Living (1937), The Great McGinty (1940), Christmas in July (1940), The Lady Eve (1941), Sullivan's Travels (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) and The Great Moment (1944)
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    Easy Living (film)

    ↑ Christmas in July (1940), Sullivan's Travels (1941), The Palm Beach Story (1942), The Great Moment (1944), Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), I'll Be Yours (1947), and The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947)

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• Sullivan's Travels,
• Preston Sturges,
• Barton Fink,
• The Palm Beach Story,
• Veronica Lake,
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?,
• Joel McCrea,
• Robert Greig (actor),
• The Great Moment (1944 film),
• Easy Living (film)