Preston Sturges Learns To Fly

Before film directing in L.A. and playwrighting in N.Y.C., Preston Sturges tried inventing vertical flight.

From LIFE Magazine, January 7th 1946: “In addition to the lip rouge and the loopless camera, Sturges’ inventions include a projection machine intended to make it easier for brokers to read ticket tape, which his foster father wrongly pronounced impractical in 1917; a vertical flight plane with rotating wings; a card-indexing system for libraries, and a special method of playing chimin de fer.

This is of course hilarious because when he did he had not yet experienced an aircraft, and once he did, he hated it.