 Schmidt' in Preston Sturges' "Christmas in July", his second film with the writer-director.Meyer become part of Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors, appearing in every American film written and directed by Sturges with the exception of "The Great McGinty".Evidently as a private joke, Sturges nearly always cast Meyer as a character named "Schultz", with conspicuous exceptions as playing Dr. Kluck in "The Palm Beach Story" in 1942.