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George Cukor
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George Cukor - what members say
review by A customer from Cambridge
Holiday 25 January 2008
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Funny and charming 3 November 2004
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Let's Not 14 May 2005
George Cukor - filmography
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The Blue Bird
(1976)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner
Director: George Cukor
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A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities
 
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from 4 members
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Love Among the Ruins
(1975)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely
Director: George Cukor
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An ageing actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her assets is to destroy her reputation.
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from 1 member
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Travels with My Aunt
(1972)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr.
Director: George Cukor
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At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings, who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure, as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
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from 11 members
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My Fair Lady
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Theodore Bikel, Jeremy Brett, Henry Daniell
Director: George Cukor
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At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert ..read more »
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from 11,521 members
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Let's Make Love
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Randall, Yves Montand
Director: George Cukor
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A millionaire is out to destroy a show that makes fun of him, until he meets cast member Monroe. To get closer to her he joins the cast and hires Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly and Milton Berle (as themselves) to teach him the performing arts.
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from 403 members
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Heller In Pink Tights
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn
Director: George Cukor
Certificate: 
The only Western director George Cukor ever made, HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS is a comedy about show business with satirical commentary on the Western genre. The film, based on a novel by Louis L�Amour and full of witty exchanges and a striking visual style, concerns a vaudeville troupe that stays one ..read more »
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from 61 members
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A Star Is Born
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford
Director: George Cukor
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal return to the screen of Judy Garland after a four-year absence. The remake adheres closely to the plotline of the 1937 original: An alcoholic film star, on his last professional ..read more »
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from 1,384 member
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It Should Happen To You
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford
Director: George Cukor
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Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday) is an unsuccessful model and actress who believes that a jolt of publicity will do her career a world of good. She gets that publicity by renting a billboard in the middle of Manhattan, emblazoned with her name and photograph. As a result, Gladys is showered with ..read more »
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from 234 members
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The Actress
(1953)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Jean Simmons, Teresa Wright
Director: George Cukor
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In 1914 Wallacestone (located outside of Boston), the Joneses are just making ends meet, and only if parents, Clinton and Annie, watch every cent that they spend. However, their seventeen year old daughter, Ruth, has no such concerns as she is single minded in her pursuit of wanting to become a ..read more »
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Pat and Mike
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, William Ching
Director: George Cukor
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The sun will sneak past a rooster before sports promoter Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy) lets opportunity pass hime by. So the first time he sees genteel Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) swing a five-iron, he decides to ink her to a pro contract. "Not much meat on her" Mike later says, "but what's ..read more »
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from 358 members
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Born Yesterday
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Judy Holliday, William Holden, Broderick Crawford
Director: George Cukor
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Judy Holliday reprises her Broadway role in this fresh and entertaining comedy based on Garson Kanin's play, directed by George Cukor. Although reputedly not the first choice for the film role, Holliday won an Academy Award for her priceless portrayal of a "dumb but savvy" blonde who outsmarts the ..read more »
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from 785 members
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Adam's Rib
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
Director: George Cukor
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Written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, Adam's Rib is a peerless comedy predicated on the double standard. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn play Adam and Amanda Bonner, a husband-and-wife attorney team, both drawn to a case of attempted murder. The defendant (Judy Holliday) had tearfully ..read more »
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from 2,368 members
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A Double Life
(1947)
Starring: Ronald Coleman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters
Director: George Cukor
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The exploration of the personality of Anthony John (Ronald Colman), a brilliant but schizoid actor who is a specialist in classic drama but whose personality changes when he portrays Othello on stage. His outgoing character endears him to all - but his wife is terrified that one day his cruel ..read more »
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from 9 members
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Gaslight
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Director: George Cukor
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Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel women's picture director George Cukor. Bergman stars as Paula Alquist, a late 19th century English singer studying music in Italy. However, Paula abandons her studies ..read more »
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from 1,314 member
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The Women
(1939)
Starring: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell
Director: George Cukor
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A no-holds-barred comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes (both inter- and intragender) and starring Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, THE WOMEN is based on the play by Clare Boothe Luce and is set in high-society 1930s New York. Although no men appear in the film, they are its primary subject ..read more »
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from 111 members
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Gone With The Wind - Blu-ray
(1939)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
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Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark Gable, loves Scarlett. ..read more »
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from 577 members
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Holiday
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Henry Kolker, Binnie Barnes, Jean Dixon
Director: George Cukor
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Both film versions of Phillip Barry's stage comedy Holiday have their merits, but the 1938 version has the added advantage of supercharged star power. Katharine Hepburn and Doris Nolan play Linda and Julia Seton, two daughters of a very well-to-do family. Linda feels a bit lost in the shuffle as ..read more »
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from 2,488 members
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Camille
(1936)
Starring: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
Director: George Cukor
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1847 - In the gay half-world of Paris, the gentlemen of the day met the girls of the moment at certain theatre, balls and gambling clubs where the code was discretion ... but the game was romance. This is the story of one of those pretty creatures who lived on the quicksands of popularity - ..read more »
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from 143 members
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David Copperfield
(1935)
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Basil Rathbone, W.C. Fields
Director: George Cukor
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Otherwise known as "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger", this 1935 version of the classic Charles Dickens tale stars some of the best actors of the time in it's retelling of the life of young Mr. Copperfield.
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from 14 members
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Sylvia Scarlett
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne
Director: George Cukor
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Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn both give sparkling and witty performances in this entertaining comedy adventure. Sylvia Scarlett (Hepburn), and her crooked father are escaping France, one step ahead of the police. To avoid detection Sylvia cuts her hair and dons boy's clothing. They bump into ..read more »
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from 150 members
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Little Women
(1933)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
Director: George Cukor
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The first motion picture based on Louisa May Alcott's gently humorous 1869 classic of four sisters who learn moral lessons and grow from children to adults in Civil War-era Massachusetts, this film chronicles the lives of the teenage March sistersJo (Katharine Hepburn), Meg (Frances Dee), Amy (Joan ..read more »
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from 103 members
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George Cukor facts
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...ment. With an intense and witty script by Philip Barry and dynamic direction by George Cukor, Holiday will delight, challenge and leave you with a smile on your face. Unmis...
