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George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936).
He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind (1939), but went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940), Adam’s Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954) and My Fair Lady (1964). He continued to work into the 1980s.
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George Cukor Biography / Wiki
| Name | George Cukor |
| Also Know | George Dewey Cukor, Джордж Кьюкор, 조지 ì¿ ì»¤ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1899-07-07 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 83 |
| Deathday | 1983-01-24 |
George Cukor Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor | Himself | 1973-08-16 | In the series of documentaries directed by Richard Schickel following classic film directors, this episode interviews the creative mind behind “My Fai… |
| The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind | (archive footage) | 1988-10-01 | This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage…. |
| Garbo | Himself | 1969-11-06 | Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo…. |
| Marilyn: Something’s Got to Give | Self (archive footage) | 1990-12-13 | Documentary on Marilyn Monroe’s final days and the production of “Something Got to Give.”… |
| Anna Karina, Remember | Himself (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2017-10-19 | Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the stor… |
| Sid & Judy | Himself (archive footage) | 2019-06-26 | Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, n… |
| Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess | Self (archive footage) | 1994-10-17 | An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood’s most famous and glamorous movie stars…. |
| Cary Grant: A Class Apart | Self (archive footage) | 2004-06-01 | Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews…. |
| Judy Garland: By Myself | Himself | 2004-02-25 | As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland’s story is one of the saddest success stories you’ll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life pre… |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic | Self (archive footage) | 1990-02-20 | Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of t… |
| 1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year | 2009-07-02 | This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood’s greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special…. | |
| The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes | Self (archive footage) | 2022-04-27 | This documentary explores the mystery surrounding the death of movie icon Marilyn Monroe through previously unheard interviews with her inner circle…. |
| James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage) | 1988-11-22 | Documentary about James Stewart’s long career as an actor and positive personal life…. |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 | Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t… |
| More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of My Fair Lady | Self (archive sound) | 1995-12-30 | This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of “My Fair Lady,” the classic musical about a poor young… |
George Cukor Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Philadelphia Story | Director | 1940-12-05 | When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself…. |
| A Star Is Born | Director | 1954-10-01 | A movie star helps a young singer/actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral…. |
| It Should Happen to You | Director | 1954-01-15 | Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it’s love at firs… |
| My Fair Lady | Director | 1964-10-21 | A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society…. |
| Travels with My Aunt | Director | 1972-12-17 | At his mother’s funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him alon… |
| The Women | Director | 1939-09-01 | A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays…. |
| Let’s Make Love | Director | 1960-09-08 | When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order … |
| Born Yesterday | Director | 1950-12-25 | Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-… |
| Sylvia Scarlett | Director | 1935-12-25 | When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with th… |
| Adam’s Rib | Director | 1949-11-18 | When a woman attempts to kill her uncaring husband, prosecutor Adam Bonner gets the case. Unfortunately for him his wife Amanda (who happens to be a l… |
| Keeper of the Flame | Director | 1943-04-01 | Famed reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero…. |
| Pat and Mike | Director | 1952-06-13 | Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flust… |
| A Woman’s Face | Director | 1941-05-09 | A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman…. |
| Gaslight | Director | 1944-05-04 | A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion…. |
| A Double Life | Director | 1947-12-25 | A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character’s jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage…. |
| Justine | Director | 1969-08-06 | In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, … |
| Heller in Pink Tights | Director | 1960-03-01 | Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lad… |
| One Hour with You | Director | 1932-03-23 | Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist h… |
| Les Girls | Director | 1957-10-03 | After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe “Barry Nichols and Les Girls”, Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Ange… |
| Susan and God | Director | 1940-06-07 | A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group…. |
| David Copperfield | Director | 1935-01-18 | Charles Dickens’ classic tale of an orphaned boy’s fight for happiness and the colorful characters who help and hinder him…. |
| Romeo and Juliet | Director | 1936-09-03 | Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families…. |
| Camille | Director | 1936-12-26 | Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert t… |
| Holiday | Director | 1938-05-26 | Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent milliona… |
| Dinner at Eight | Director | 1933-12-22 | An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t… |
| Little Women | Director | 1933-11-24 | Little Women is a coming-of-age drama tracing the lives of four sisters: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. During the American Civil War, the girls father is awa… |
| Something’s Got to Give | Director | 1962-01-01 | Unfinished remake of “My Favorite Wife”, due to the firing of Marilyn Monroe from the film. She was eventually re-hired, but died in August, 1962. Fil… |
| Bhowani Junction | Director | 1956-05-01 | Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India…. |
| A Bill of Divorcement | Director | 1932-09-30 | Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in an asylum with his sanity restored. But he is disturbed to find that everything has changed: his … |
| What Price Hollywood? | Director | 1932-06-24 | Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaura… |
| The Marrying Kind | Director | 1952-02-01 | Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good tim… |
| Wild Is the Wind | Director | 1957-12-11 | A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his … |
| Edward, My Son | Director | 1949-03-01 | Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills…. |
| Two-Faced Woman | Director | 1941-12-31 | A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband…. |
| The Blue Bird | Director | 1976-04-05 | A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On… |
| Her Cardboard Lover | Director | 1942-07-16 | A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo…. |
| The Actress | Director | 1953-09-25 | The true story of Ruth Gordon’s early struggles on the road to stage stardom…. |
| The Royal Family of Broadway | Director | 1930-12-22 | Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a br… |
| Girls About Town | Director | 1931-11-07 | A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan…. |
| Rockabye | Director | 1932-11-25 | A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play…. |
| Rich and Famous | Director | 1981-09-23 | Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich…. |
| Love Among the Ruins | Director | 1975-03-06 | An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed ba… |
| The Model and the Marriage Broker | Director | 1951-11-01 | A marriage broker can’t resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results…. |
| The Corn Is Green | Director | 1979-01-29 | A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes… |
| The Chapman Report | Director | 1962-10-05 | A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women…. |
| Our Betters | Director | 1933-03-17 | Although the British upper class may be thought our betters in society, they are certainly not our betters, and perhaps are our equals, in morality…. |
| Winged Victory | Director | 1944-12-22 | Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with … |
| Hot Spell | Director | 1958-05-21 | Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, trying to hide how much she suffers from her husband’s amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve… |
| The Virtuous Sin | Director | 1930-10-31 | Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed…. |
| Grumpy | Director | 1930-08-01 | An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery…. |
| A Life of Her Own | Director | 1950-09-01 | A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man…. |
| Zaza | Director | 1938-12-29 | A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat…. |
| Tarnished Lady | Director | 1931-05-01 | Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father’s death. Although she loves wri… |
| The Animal Kingdom | Director | 1932-12-28 | Tom Collier has had a great relationship with Daisy, but when he decides to marry, it is not Daisy whom he asks, it is Cecelia. After the marriage, To… |
| I Met My Love Again | Director | 1938-01-14 | In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows… |
| No More Ladies | Director | 1935-06-14 | A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous…. |
| The Wizard of Oz | Co-Director | 1939-08-15 | Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow … |
| Gone with the Wind | Director | 1939-12-15 | The spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner is forced to use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty, following Maj. Gen…. |
| Desire Me | Director | 1947-10-31 | A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband’s death…. |
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