Word: cukor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This rather florid drama is written with considerable Broadway sleekness by Garson Kanin and his wife, Actress Ruth Gordon, and is appropriately directed by George Cukor. It offers Signe Hasso her best chance to date to prove that her beauty and talent deserve better roles than she usually gets; Newcomer Shelley Winters makes a sure hit as a waitress...
...story of a Victorian husband who systematically sets to work to drive his lovely young wife insane. Hollywood's husband is not quite so icily satanic, his wife not excruciatingly demoralized, as in the original. But as acted by Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and directed by George Cukor, Hollywood's ace manipulator of emotional actresses and lacy decor (Camille), Gaslight is still a fierce, hair-raising, handsome piece of psychological horror...
...Past Imperfect. Word had gone forth that this hodgepodge personal history is as broad as it is high, and generously peppered with peephole patter about everybody from the late William Alexander Percy (Lanterns on the Levee) to café society's Lady Mendl and Hollywood's George Cukor...
...GEORGE CUKOR...
...choices were open to the makers of A Woman's Face. They could turn out a study of a woman outcast and her rejuvenation; or they could emphasize the play's melodrama, suspense and horror. Producer Victor Saville (Goodbye, Mr. Chips) and Director George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story) chose the latter. With a tight, smooth script they have spun a slick thriller whose box-office ending is but a slight drawback to a suspenseful 106 minutes...