Word: cukor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like all Metro specials, Susan and God is trademarked by expert direction (George Cukor), lavish mountings, best camera work and lighting in the business, and gowns by Adrian. Since Hollywood's only rival as the world's fashion centre was Paris, since Hollywood's No. 1 stylist is Adrian, and since broad-shouldered, boy-hipped Joan Crawford is one of Adrian's favorite models, Susan and God is no mean fashion event. Feminine movie goers and scouts who remembered such nationwide Adrian clicks as the puffed sleeves Crawford wore in Letty Lynton, Garbo's Eugenie...
...teeth like me, and they couldn't be buying stories for each of us. . . ." When his contract with Paramount expired, Grant struck out for himself, since then has averaged three and a half pictures yearly. He caught Hollywood's eye as a panderer in George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett. Then came good comedy leads in The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday. Today Grant is canny about his career, reads scripts diligently, keeps an eye on publicity, tries to alternate one serious role with every two comedy parts...
Back in Japan, Joan, age 16, acquired a permanent interest in Japanese art, started to paint pictures. Back in California, she found Sister Olivia already busy in Hollywood. Joan's ambition turned to pictures of another kind. George Cukor tested her for Melanie in Gone With the Wind. When she saw she would not get the part, Joan suggested Sister Olivia. Olivia got it. But George Cukor did not forget Joan Fontaine...
...months his home has been a secluded wooden cottage in Pacific Palisades, overlooking Santa Monica. With his wife and niece he lives very quietly, takes long walks-sometimes 20 miles-in the Santa Monica hills. The only movie people he sees much of are Ronald Colman, Anita Loos, Directors Cukor and Mamoulian, and Charlie Chaplin, "an old and good friend." Another friend he sees fairly often is Bertrand Russell, now a professor at U. C. L. A. Recently he gave a picnic; the guests were Russell and Garbo...