Video: 'Sullivan's Travels' trailer

(Friday, December 5, 1941) — Sullivan’s Travels, a comedy about a movie director who longs to make a socially relevant drama but eventually learns that comedies are his more valuable contribution to society, opened today in Portugal.

Directed by Preston Sturges, the film stars Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake (the film would open in New York on Jan. 28, 1942).