Sandy Sturges, 79, Director’s Widow and Biographer

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Anne Margaret “Sandy” Sturges, who used the unfinished manuscript of an autobiography by her late husband, film auteur Preston Sturges, as the basis for the book “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges,” has died. She was 79.

Sandy Sturges died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan Beach. The cause was cancer, son Tom Sturges said.

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