Word: cukor
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...live next door to each other, and for years, she and the very married Tracy kept company but never lived together, never went out together. Only when he fell ill, after years of binge drinking, did she retire from films to care for him at the estate of George Cukor, where they lived. After he died, she called his wife and said, "You know...you and I can be friends." "Well, yes," Louise Tracy said, "but you see, I thought you were only a rumor...
...affairs with many of them). Through his eyes, as reconstructed by Mann, we see the increasingly hidden world of early gay Hollywood: the actors--Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo and Ramon Novarro--and the people behind the scenes, such as director George Cukor and jet-setting composer Cole Porter, the two focal points of gay male Hollywood society in the 1930s...
...about the enticements and confinements money imposes on the young--its return looks opportune. Between its first appearance and the latest, however, something seemingly bigger than a Depression (or a world war or a revolution in social mores) has arisen to obstruct its revival: a movie. In 1938 George Cukor directed Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in the leads, and they placed their stamp on the roles--indelibly...
Hollywood claimed the story first in 1918 with a silent version and then in 1933 with a triumphant adaptation directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn at her warrior-goddess best. A 1949 remake is remembered chiefly because it featured Elizabeth Taylor as Amy, wearing a blond...
...director George Cukor envisioned this scene in mid-nineteenth century Paris. "Camille," starring Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor, is another highlight in the reclusive star's long and fascinating career. The film, showing this Sunday at the Brattle, is part of the theater's current Garbo tribute...