Word: cukor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dinner at Eight (George Cukor...
William Wellman's wonderful original A Star Is Born (1937) and George Cukor's superb musical reworking (1954) both shared the same sure-shot story (written originally by Wellman and Robert Carson). Norman Maine, an actor at the apex of stardom and about to slide into an alcoholic decline, meets, loves and marries a young woman named Esther Blodgett, whose fame gradually surpasses his own. Less out of bitterness than from shame, Maine commits suicide by walking into the surf at Malibu...
Gaslight. One of George Cukor's stylish pieces of work and Ingrid Bergman's first Academy Award. The important work here, however, is done by a young saucy girl named Angela Lansbury who made her film debut in this. The picture is about a sadistic fellow and his bride. Twelve stars...
Directed by GEORGE CUKOR Screenplay by HUGH WHITEMORE and ALFRED HAYES...
...movie gives evidence of having been heavily edited, probably in a Cuisinart. A lot of individual shots do not match. Once in a while, someone breaks into song, suggesting that The Blue Bird may once have been a musical. Director George Cukor is one of the most urbane American film makers (Adam's Rib, Holiday), but here both his good taste and characteristic sophistication have lapsed. Elizabeth Taylor (who plays four roles, including Maternal Love), Ava Gardner (Luxury) and Jane Fonda (who, as Night, is decked out in a costume that makes her look like Ming the Merciless) camp...