Spacey Speaks on Sullivan

At the Grand Classics screening of "Sullivan’s Travels" on Monday night sponsored by Land Rover, host Kevin Spacey not only introduced the pic but also took time to discuss a little movie trivia as well as praise the man behind the movie, Preston Sturges.

"[Sullivan's Travels] is one of the first movies that Veronica Lake, who became a kind of symbol of Hollywood, one of her very first leading roles and its notable to say that when she accepted the movie, she failed to tell Preston that she was five months pregnant. So Edith Head, who was the costumer and a great, Academy-Award winning costumer, had to design costumes that hid the fact that she was in fact, in full-bloom and she is beautiful in the movie and extraordinary to look at in the film but they managed to hide it.[Sturges] went on to have an extraordinary career and he is one of my favorite filmmakers. It was not unusual in any Preston Sturges movie to hear a character say the most eloquent line of dialogue you’ve ever heard and then turn and fall flat on their face. He was a man who believed in comedy and believed in its power."