The Good Fairy (1935)

Preston Sturges is the exact opposite of Ayn Rand.

Sean Gilman

Herb Marshall absolutely losing it over being able to afford a pencil sharpener with a handle! And Margaret Sullavan crying into her genuine foxine! The Good Fairy brightened my day and half-cured my anxiety. Maybe I’ll have some analysis on Wyler & Sturges in the future,…

✨🥀 e m m é

Preston Sturges liked Lubitsch so much he reportedly try to dedicate his first movie to him, so I can only assume he had a blast adapting the kind of Eastern European play that was his specialty and turn it into a much more American farce particularly in the back half. The…

Filipe Furtado

just adored every second!!! only preston sturges could get so much comedic mileage out of a pencil sharpener!!!! experience was definitely heightened by being able to see a 35mm print at 1pm on a tuesday with mostly elderly people who laughed in all the right places and…

nora

I'm not sure this is frenetic enough to qualify as a screwball comedy, but at the very least it's pointed in that direction. As with most such movies, it's hard to summarize the plot, but it centers on Margaret Sullavan's character (the incredibly named Luisa Ginglebuscher)…

atmartin

The second of Leonard Martin’s Uncovered film discoveries at the New Beverly was easily my favorite of the night, a Preston Sturges script directed by William Wyler was pure joy from start to finish with the kind of ending that made Hollywood synonymous with “Happily Ever…

Joe Lynch

Trenchant screwball comedy rips into predatory male behaviour and the idea that no good deed goes unpunished. On show are a group of expert talents operating at the top of their game. Preston Sturges’s script combines droll, smart, stylised dialogue — including a hilarious…

Silversaxophone

“you are the good fairy. you flew into my life and changed everything.”“no, you’re the good fairy...who changed my life”INSTANT FAV. 🥺 maggie sullavan is such an awkward cute bean here and her comedic timing is hilarious but yet shes so versatile i don’t think ive ever…

Poppy

the awestruck erotics of the scene where herbert marshall and margaret sullavan test a new pencil sharpener. his abashed surprise when sullavan finds his newly shaven face handsome. how innocence is rewarded without stripping girlishness of its sensuality

kit duckworth