George Cukor (1899–1983)
Author of The Wizard of Oz [1939 film]
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Works by George Cukor
The Cary Grant Box Set (Holiday / Only Angels Have Wings / The Talk of the Town / His Girl Friday / The Awful Truth) (2006) — Director — 29 copies
Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Collection: Morning Glory / Without Love / Dragon Seed / Undercurrent / Sylvia… (1933) 11 copies
British Cinema Collection 2 - 4 Films: The Inheritance, Love Among the Ruins, Anna Karenina, & St. Ives — Director — 7 copies
The Audrey Hepburn Couture Muse Collection: Breakfast At Tiffanys / Funny Face / Paris When It Sizzles / My Fair Lady /… — Director — 6 copies
Silver Screen Romances (The Solid Gold Cadillac / We Were Strangers / Angels Over Broadway / Music in My Heart / The… (2014) — Director — 6 copies
The Awful Truth / Born Yesterday / His Girl Friday (Triple Feature Video) — Director — 6 copies
Best Picture Collection: Musicals (An American in Paris / Gigi / My Fair Lady) — Director — 4 copies
Marilyn Monroe: The Diamond Collection Volume II — Director — 3 copies
The Joan Crawford Collection: Humoresque / Possessed / The Damned Don't Cry / The Women / Mildred Pierce (2005) — Director — 3 copies
Desire Me [1947 film] — Director — 3 copies
The Model And The Marriage Broker 3 copies
90 Ans Warner-Coffret 10 Films-Comédies Musicales — Director — 1 copy
Our Betters [1933 film] 1 copy
Girls About Town [1931 film] — Director — 1 copy
The Glenn Miller Story / The Benny Goodman Story / A Star is Born — Director — 1 copy
I Met My Love Again [1938 film] — Director — 1 copy
Little Women [DVD] [2019] [1933] — Director — 1 copy
The Women, 1939 1 copy
What Price Hollywood? ( Hollywood Madness (Hollywood Merry-Go-Round) ) ( The Truth About Hollywood ) 1 copy
Une étoile est née 1 copy
Margarita Gautier 1 copy
Associated Works
The Lady Vanishes / Gaslight / Arsenic and Old Lace — Director — 1 copy
Cary Grant Classics: North By Northwest [and] The Philadelphia Story — Director — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Cukor, George
- Legal name
- Cukor, George Dewey
- Birthdate
- 1899-07-07
- Date of death
- 1983-01-24
- Burial location
- Forest Lawn, Glendale, CA, USA, in the Garden on Honor, unmarked
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Education
- DeWitt Clinton High School, New York, New York, USA (1917)
- Occupations
- film director
filmmaker - Awards and honors
- Academy Award (Best Director ∙ 1965 ∙ "My Fair Lady")
Hollywood Walk of Fame - Short biography
- George Cukor was born to a Hungarian Jewish immigrant family on the Lower East Side of New York City. He developed a love of theater as a child, taking dance lessons, appearing in amateur productions, and even cutting classes to see shows on Broadway. He graduated from De Witt Clinton High School in 1917, and went to work in the theater, rising from production assistant to stage manager to director.
Movies were becoming popular and by 1929, Cukor was invited to work in Hollywood. His first major project there was as a dialogue director for All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). He landed a few co-directing jobs as well, including The Royal Family of Broadway (1930). He made his directorial debut with Tallulah Bankhead's film debut, Tarnished Lady (1931), and helped discover Katharine Hepburn -- he fought with the RKO Studio to cast her in A Bill of Divorcement (1932). He had his first major success as a director working with Hepburn again in Little Women (1933). He went on to direct some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). He worked with Hepburn and Cary Grant on The Philadelphia Story (1940) and made several sophisticated comedies. He suffered a career setback by being fired by David O. Selznick from the production of Gone with the Wind in 1939, but made successful films for many more years. He was particularly known for adaptations of books and stage plays for the screen; many of them centered on strong female characters. He received an Academy Award for My Fair Lady (1964).
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Statistics
- Works
- 83
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 4,788
- Popularity
- #5,248
- Rating
- 4.1
- Reviews
- 51
- ISBNs
- 228
- Languages
- 8
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