Word: cukor
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Behind the cameras were almost all the directors whose work is so avidly studied in the film schools, a group that included John Ford, George Cukor, George Stevens, Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Busby Berkeley, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch and Victor Fleming. Behind them were the producers, who were far more important then than they are now, men such as David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl F. Zanuck, Pandro S. Berman, Hal Wallis and Arthur Hornblow...
...Philadelphia Story (Harvard Film Archive), the charming, wise, funny classic that gives the lie to W.C. Fields' famous epitaph. One look at the cast--Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart--just about says it all; but when you figure in the top-notch script and director George Cukor's subtle direction, you have one of Hollywood's few truly timeless jobs...
After Warner Bros, excised half an hour from George Cukor's 1954 remake of A Star Is Born, the director vowed never to see the film again. Last week at New York City's Radio City Music Hall, after a painstaking reassembly, the original version that Cukor loved-all three hours of it-was shown publicly for the first time since its release 29 years ago. James Mason, 74, who played Norman Maine to Judy Garland's Esther Blodgett took a bow at intermission, but Film Historian Ronald Haver was the true star of the show. Combing...
DIED. George Cukor, 83, sensitive, sophisticated Hollywood film director, whose 51 films were characterized by craftsmanship and a dedication to the spoken word, but most of all by the climate he created for great performances; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. He was known, to his occasional annoyance, as a woman's director for his ability to evoke inspired work from many of the great actresses of the 1930s and '40s, including Academy Award-winning performances by Ingrid Bergman (in Gaslight, 1944) and Judy Holliday (in Bom Yesterday, 1950) and memorable ones by Greta Garbo in Camille...
...Although Cukor has a history of weak male performances when he doesn't work with the very best, he can't be blamed for the pathetic males of Rich and Famous; they were not his choice. And in any case, Ayres condemns Bisset to remain alone. After the breakup of her marriage, Liz falls in with a pseudo-intellectual journalist who proposes to her; Bisset snipes at the offer, obviously afraid to commit herself to anyone, let alone this infant. Finally, after a conference with Bergen, the sole time we see Bergen at all supportive, Bisset decides to accept...