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...must to all movie stars, the nude scene came to Marilyn Monroe. That long-ago calendar shot when she was 17 was almost forgotten, and MM hardly needed the publicity. But it was really in the script of Something's Got to Give, and perfectionist Director George Cukor said no to the flesh-colored "nude suit" Marilyn wanted to wear. Cukor cleared the set of "all males not actually involved in the production," admonished electricians to "turn around," and Marilyn slipped into the pool like Botticelli's Venus, while cameras whirred. As she paddled around, the chief electrician...
Unhappy Tourist. Moss Hart persuaded Lazar to become an independent agent soon after the war. Swiftly, his list grew until it included George S. Kaufman. Herman Wouk, S. N. Behrman, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Frank Loesser, George Cukor. And as his personal legend developed, Lazar found himself caricatured in the work of his clients: Hart lampooned him gently, and George Axelrod mortalized his little friend as Irving ("Sneaky") LaSalle, the Hollywood literary agent in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter...
Wild Is the Wind (Hal Wallis; Paramount) makes a reasonably honest, week-end farmer's effort to turn the warm loam of natural life. Director George Cukor, though obviously a city feller, has managed to provide himself, for the occasion, with a conspicuously green thumb. Producer Hal Wallis has provided the movie with Italy's Anna Magnani, an actress as earthy (and sometimes as mysteriously beautiful) as a potato; with Anthony Quinn, an actor so radically natural that not even 20 years of Hollywood has spoiled him; and with a screenplay by Arnold Schulman that veers with...
...apart from Kay Kendall, Les Girls is a fine musical comedy-easily the best that Hollywood has put together since An American in Paris and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (also M-G-M productions). The picture has only a second-drawer score by Cole Porter, but Director George Cukor has shrewdly managed to make the least of it, and to make the most of a marvelous run of creative luck. Gene Kelly dances less than usual, and rather better. Mitzi Gaynor, whose face most Hollywood cameramen have in the past been careful to undertook, is revealed to have...
...comedy situation is worked for all the laughs it's worth by Scripter Garson Kanin and Director George Cukor. It gets more from the faultlessly schooled comedy of Actress Holliday and a fresh, sharply timed performance by Actor Lemmon, making his screen debut...