found:NUCMC data from Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Beverly Hills, Calif.) for His Papers, 1946-1976(Sturges, John (1911-1992); motion picture producer and director)
found:Escape artist, c2008:p. 12 (b. 3 Jan. 1910)
found:Email from G. Lovell, author of Escape artist, 12 Mar. 2009(documents obtained from Sturges' family, incl. U.S. Army enlistment records, Directors Guild pension and health plan, and death certificate cite date of birth as 3 Jan. 1910)
found:Internet movie database, via WWW, Dec. 27, 2012(John Sturges; John Elliott Sturges; b. Jan. 3, 1910 in Oak Park, Ill.; d. Aug. 18, 1992 in San Luis Obispo, Calif.; director, producer, editor; spouse: Dorothy Lynn Brooks (1945 -?, divorced))
found:Lovell, G. Escape artist, the life and films of John Sturges, c2008:p. 12 (John Eliot Carne; born, January 3, 1910; parents: Reginald and Grace Carne) p. 12 (after divorce, Grace Carne reclaimed her family name, Sturges; eldest son, Sturges Carne retained father's surname; John and sister, Jean's surname was changed to Sturges) p. 257 (Surges divorced first wife, Dorothy, in 1970) p. 293 (married second wife, Kathy Soules, in 1984)
found:Cook County, Illinois, U.S., Birth Certificates Index, 1871-1922 viewed May 20, 2024 via Ancestry.com(John Carne; born, January 3, 1910 in Oak Park, Illinois; father, Reginald Gowman Rowe Carne; mother, Grace Delafield Sturges)