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  • Holiday
  • Holiday review by A customer from Cambridge
    Rated - 5 stars Holiday 25 January 2008
    ...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...  
  • Adam's Rib
  • Adam's Rib review by from Colchester, England
    Rated - 4 stars Funny and charming 3 November 2004
    ...Where can you go wrong? Here we have George Cukor, the director of 'Philadelphia Story' and 'My Fair Lady', directing Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn in a comedy about ...  
  • Let's Make Love
  • Let's Make Love review by A customer from London, England
    Rated - 2 stars Let's Not 14 May 2005
    ... had very high hopes for this film - a musical comedy with Marilyn, directed by George Cukor, and songs by Cole Porter. It didn't seem like it could go wrong. And yet it do...  

George Cukor - filmography


  • My Fair Lady on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Audrey Hepburn,  Rex Harrison,  Wilfrid Hyde White
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton's lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe's winning score became the background for George Cukor's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 9,969 members
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  • Heller In Pink Tights on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Anthony Quinn
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 47 members
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  • A Star Is Born (2 discs) on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Judy Garland,  James Mason,  Charles Bickford
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A STAR IS BORN was conceived as a comeback vehicle for Judy Garland, who gives a fascinating and heartrending performance in perhaps the finest work of her career. This film was director George Cukor's first musical and first color picture; the tale of a doomed Hollywood couple, it was a remake of ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,109 member
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  • Pat and Mike on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Katharine Hepburn,  William Ching
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 239 members
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  • Adam's Rib on DVD (1949)
    Starring: Spencer Tracy,  Katharine Hepburn,  Judy Holliday
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A playful allusion to the Book of Genesis, ADAM'S RIB is an inspired farce and perhaps the best showcase for the fantastic Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn duo. George Cukor uses the chemistry between his stars to create a delightful, sophisticated comedy about the battle between the sexes, based on ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,006 members
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  • A Double Life (1947)
    Starring: Ronald Coleman,  Signe Hasso,  Shelley Winters
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 5 members
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  • Gaslight on DVD (1944)
    Starring: Charles Boyer,  Ingrid Bergman,  Joseph Cotten
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Director George Cukor draws magnificent performances from his stars in this powerfully guided study in obsession. GASLIGHT is a suspenseful, atmospheric mystery that perfectly captures the smoky, smoggy feel of Victorian London. Ingrid Bergman won an Academy Award for her role as a wealthy ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 962 members
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  • The Women (1939)
    Starring: Norma Shearer,  Joan Crawford,  Rosalind Russell
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 79% from 89 members
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  • Holiday on DVD (1938)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Katharine Hepburn,  Doris Nolan
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant team up in this classic George Cukor comedy about love that finally finds its mark. Johnny (Grant) has just met the girl of his dreams, so he proposes; she happily accepts. However, he soon discovers that his lovely bride-to-be, Julia (Doris Nolan), comes from a ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 2,157 members
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  • David Copperfield (1935)
    Starring: Freddie Bartholomew,  Basil Rathbone,  W.C. Fields
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 4 members
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  • Little Women (1933)
    Starring: Katharine Hepburn,  Joan Bennett,  Paul Lukas
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 93 members
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  • It Should Happen To You on DVD
    Starring: Judy Holliday,  Peter Lawford
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A young woman seeks success by renting a billboard and having a giant picture of herself and her name placed there. The owner of a company, a wealthy man, who wants that particular billboard for his own business tries to take the picture down and falls in love with her.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 200 members
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George Cukor facts

5 most recent films

My Fair Lady - 3.5 stars
Heller In Pink Tights - 2.5 stars
Les Girls - 2.5 stars
Bhowani Junction - 2.5 stars
A Star Is Born - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Women - 4.0 stars
The Philadelphia Story - 4.0 stars
Gone With The Wind - 3.5 stars
My Fair Lady - 3.5 stars
Gaslight - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Heller In Pink Tights - 2.5 stars
Bhowani Junction - 2.5 stars
A Double Life - 2.5 stars
Les Girls - 2.5 stars
Dinner at Eight - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Katharine Hepburn - 7 times - show films
Ward - 4 times - show films
Thomas Mitchell - 4 times - show films
Vivien Leigh - 4 times - show films
Hattie McDaniel - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Victor Fleming - 4 times - show films
Sam Wood - 4 times - show films