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RICH AND FAMOUS Directed by George Cukor...
...Acquaintance (1943) was a movie about friendship, but that did not stop Co-Stars Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins from feuding on the set. The cast of Rich and Famous, Director George Cukor's remake of the film, is truer to its spirit. Jacqueline Bisset, 36, who has the Davis role of a brainy novelist, and Candice Bergen, 34, who plays a housewife turned bestseller queen, are in fact acting like old acquaintances. "We never worked together before, but Candice is terrific," Bisset gushes. "We've become great friends." Of course, Davis and Hopkins probably did not have...
...Corn Is Green (Jan. 29, CBS, 9 p.m. E.S.T.) is the latest collaboration of Katharine Hepburn and Director George Cukor, who have worked together off and on since A Bill of Divorcement in 1932. Theirs was one of the movies' great creative partnerships: in such films as Holiday, The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib, they set the standard for sophisticated light comedy in American pop culture. Unfortunately, The Corn Is Green does not play to Hepburn and Cukor's strengths. This made-for-TV movie, a new adaptation of Emlyn Williams' play, is mainstream sentimental...
...Cukor stages the story well enough against lush Welsh landscapes, but there are very few openings for his usual flourishes of wit and romance. James Costigan's mechanical teleplay often italicizes plot developments; a second-half plot stratagem, in which Morgan fathers an illegitimate baby, comes across as crude turn-of-the-century melodrama. One also wonders why Costigan has not bothered to open up the play's naturally constricted action. When Morgan travels up to Oxford to take his exams, the audience expects to go with him: the Welsh boy's first encounter with upper-crust...
Friday, October 27: Film: "Holiday" with George Cukor (1938). Room 10-250, 7:30 pm Free with MIT or Wellesley...