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George Cukor
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George Cukor - what members say
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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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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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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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My Fair Lady
(1964)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde White, Henry Daniell, Audrey Hepburn
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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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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Heller In Pink Tights
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren
Director: George Cukor
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Classic comedy western, starring Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn as members of a theatrical troupe travelling through Wyoming, setting up performances wherever they can while trying to stay one step ahead of the law.
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It Should Happen To You
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Peter Lawford, Judy Holliday
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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A Star Is Born - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford
Director: George Cukor
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A remake of the 1937 classic, this time as a musical about a Hollywood couple going through bad times. Would-be singer Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) finds herself taken under the wing of fading star Norman Maine (James Mason) when she saves him from making a drunken fool of himself on stage. ..read more »
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A Star Is Born
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Tom Noonan, Judy Garland, James Mason
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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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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Born Yesterday
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: William Holden, Broderick Crawford, Howard St. John
Director: George Cukor
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Garson Kanin's Broadway hit was transferred to the screen with only a few passing nods to the stricter censorship required by films. Judy Holliday won an Oscar for her portrayal of Billie Dawn, a strident, dim-bulbed ex-chorus girl who is the mistress of millionaire junk tycoon Harry Brock (..read more »
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Adam's Rib
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, David Wayne
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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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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Gaslight
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Joseph Cotten, Ingrid Bergman
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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The Philadelphia Story
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant
Director: George Cukor
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We open on Philadelphia socialite C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) as he's being tossed out of his palatial home by his wife, Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn). Adding insult to injury, Tracy breaks one of C.K.'s precious golf clubs. He gallantly responds by knocking her down on her million-dollar ..read more »
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Gone with the Wind
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
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Epic romantic drama based on Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning novel set during the American Civil War. Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) often uses men to get what she wants, but is unable to get the one man she truly desires, Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). She soon meets her match ..read more »
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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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Holiday
on DVD
(1938)
Starring: Binnie Barnes, Charles Trowbridge, Henry Daniell
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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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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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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Sylvia Scarlett
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, 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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Little Women
(1933)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Jean Parker, Frances Dee
Director: George Cukor
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This classic Civil War tale follows the lives of Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, four sisters left at home with their mother during the war. Hardships abound but the girls always retain hope and their strong family loyalty as each grows in her own way into a 'little woman'. Katherine Hepburn stars as ..read more »
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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...
