Word: cukor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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directed by George Cukor...
...love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible." No argument there. But what about Spencer Tracy's wife Louise, home with their deaf child. "We never lived together. He stayed in one house on George Cukor's estate, and I stayed in another nearby." Does that nicety of real estate explain why many members of the press came to romanticize her 27-year affair with Tracy? "I never talked to them. Never. They could write what they wanted but without any quotes from me, though. So they...
...with dashes and sentence fragments. An odd bird Hepburn be, but then so is Rose Sayer pouring gin over the side of the African Queen. And Jo March sliding down a banister. And Susan Vance singing to a leopard. And incredible Tracy Lord -- lighted from above, in a George Cukor close-up, dressed by Adrian, and kissed by Jimmy Stewart in the moonlight. For lovers of film, it's very hard for the artist who made these women...
...movie? From the unedited clips and outtakes, a few things become clear. Beleaguered director George Cukor was something close to a saint. Monroe was almost laughably miscast. And the film looks like a dog that would have done little to revive her sagging Hollywood career. For her thriving legend, however, it should be boffo...
...alone, in an acting empyrean, in George Cukor's 1937 Camille. As the selfless courtesan Marguerite Gautier, Garbo transforms her face into a life- and-death mask, and Dumas's melodrama into classical tragedy. Every calculated audacity -- the hint of disintegration in the eyes, the dry little laugh exploding into a tubercular cough, the weight of a thoughtful passion that gives substance to every line of dialogue -- testifies to Garbo's acute, intuitive knowledge of screen acting, and it allows her to play Marguerite at high pitch and with perfect precision. At the end, as she dies reconciled with...