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	George Cukor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		One of Cukor's first ingenues was actress Katharine Hepburn, whose looks and personality left RKO officials at a loss as to how to use her.
		Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by David O. Selznick in 1937 and he spent one year with pre-production duties as well as spending long hours coaching Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland, the film's stars.
		Cukor was soon fired from the film, however, with rumors ranging from Clark Gable being uncomfortalbe with Cukor's homosexuality to Cukor quitting the film himself because of numerous production delays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Cukor (840 words)

	The Films of George Cukor
		Cukor is very clear in his exposition: we always know what the characters are feeling, and the storytelling is logical and well constructed.
		Cukor's pans seem graceful to viewers, and it is possible that they are even "invisible" to naive viewers of the film.
		Cukor also cuts between what would be long shots in most films, showing the central character surrounded by many onlookers, to really panoramic long shots, taking it great sweeps of a golf course or arena.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/cukor.htm (5460 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| George Cukor (1)
		Cukor emerged from the glittering New York theater scene of the 1920s, and one of his credos was respect for the original author's text; late in life he received an award from the Writers Guild of America for his rare degree of fidelity to the written word.
		Cukor strictly divided his socializing at his walled West Hollywood home between his celebrated friends from the worlds of film, literature, and high society, who visited for small lunches or dinner parties, and his loyal coterie of lesser-known gay friends and their handsome young hustlers, who would gather for pool parties on Sundays.
		Cukor was sparing in his use of liquor but struggled for much of his life with his weight and was subject to emotional volatility.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /32/cukor1.html (1560 words)

	George Cukor
		George Cukor is best known for directing witty comedies, but he also made wonderful dramas and musicals.
		George Cukor, Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," had his hands full with the all-female cast of this 1939 film adaptation of the Clare Boothe play.
		Director George Cukor, whose homosexuality was an open secret in Hollywood, worked in a variety of genres over his long career, but the comedy of sexual manners became his particular forte.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/cukor_george.htm (546 words)

	Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
		George Cukor (1899-1983) was born and raised in New York City and began his career in the theater as a stage manager in Chicago in 1919.
		Cukor enlisted as a private in the Army in the fall of 1942.
		Cukor's letters to Elsa Schroeder (his household and financial manager) and Irene Burns (his personal secretary) offer insights into his non-film activities and document his actions and feelings while he was on his frequent research and film-related trips away from home.
	www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/cukor_29.html (1462 words)

	George Cukor
		With the advent of the talkies, Cukor was invited to Hollywood in 1929 to serve as a dialogue coach.
		Cukor's impact on GONE WITH THE WIND was significant, in that virtually all of the footage shot under his direction made it to the final cut.
		Cukor's knack for handling difficult actresses was put to the test while directing Judy Garland in a musical remake of A STAR IS BORN (1954), Cukor's second musical and his first film in color.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/cukor_g.htm (664 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Whether Cukor was a woman's director or an actor's director or an anonymous craftsman (he has been called all three) is less important than the fact that he was able to adapt himself over the years to the varying conditions of the film industry.
		Cukor's studio films of the '30s and '40s employed the resources of the finest talent available--actors, designers, technicians--with his skillful touch blending all of these elements with taste and discretion.
		As it happened, Cukor was most fascinated with Lucas's ability to dodge publicity, to maintain a low profile in an era of relentless personality reportage, and to allow his films to speak for themselves.
	www.fathom.com /feature/121942 (777 words)

	George Cukor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Cukor is Katharine Hepburn, and vice versa.
		Cukor bragged about how he got Judy Garland to emote for him, and she's really something on her “Man That Got Away” number, especially when she steps forward, goes out of focus for a moment, and then comes through belting, but he can't focus her three big scenes towards the end.
		Cukor was especially impressed with Garland in a scene after her husband's suicide when she breaks out of a lethargic depression to scream at an old friend (Tommy Noonan).
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/cukor.html (5530 words)

	American Masters . George Cukor \| PBS
		Again, in A STAR IS BORN, Cukor's dramatic use of CinemaScope (the only truly successful approach to that unfortunate shape), the hand-held camera scenes and quick, nervous against-the-rules cutting, were too naturally effective to be singled out for praise at the time.
		About Mason in A STAR IS BORN, Cukor said that it was "a case of letting him find things out for himself." As if the director knew exactly when to perform an act of inspired withdrawal, and let the moment take over.
		What Cukor inherited was another remake, an entertainingly written attempt at updating OLD ACQUAINTANCE, the John Van Druten play that became a Bette Davis-Miriam Hopkins vehicle in 1943; and he agreed to take it over because "the offers don't exactly come fast and furious anymore," and he couldn't find backing for his own projects.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/americanmasters/database/cukor_g.html (1996 words)

	Encyclopedia: George Cukor
		Katharine Hepburn Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an iconic star of American film, television and stage, widely recognized for her sharp wit, New England gentility and fierce independence.
		The Marrying Kind (1952) is a dramedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday.
		Wild Is the Wind is a 1957 film which tells the story of a rancher who marries his Italian sister-in-law, but she falls in love with his son.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/George-Cukor (3096 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| George Cukor: The Philadelphia Story
		Cukor attempted to pitch Donald Ogden Stewart and Waldo Salt's adaptation of the Philip Barry play into the realms of ironic social significance, by suggesting that it isn't only the rich who have vices and the poor who have virtue.
		Cukor's skill at using her negative image and turning it round so successfully - the film was a huge hit - was typical of the man. Like Hawks, he was able to make the very best of good material.
		Cukor has often been attacked for his obedience to the studio system, his insistance on not interfering with the values of a screenplay and the commercial appeal of his films.
	film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,214552,00.html (547 words)

	George Cukor Centennial Celebration to Start at Academy
		All of the panelists knew Cukor personally, and Allen was nominated for Academy Awards for the art direction on two Cukor-directed films, "A Star Is Born" and "My Fair Lady," for which he won the Oscar.
		In commemoration of Cukor's Hungarian heritage, the Hungarian Film Commission, in its first Los Angeles collaboration, is also marking the Cukor Centennial with an exhibition of photographs of Cukor and from Cukor films.
		Tickets for A Centennial Celebration of George Cukor are $5 for the general public and $3 for Academy members.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/1999/99.06.24.html (552 words)

	Knitting Circle George Cukor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The biography by Patrick McGilligan reports that Clark Gable was angry because the rumour was going around the film set that he had been seduced by the actor William Haines who was a friend of George Cukor.
		Although George Cukor did not come out as gay publicly he did not deny his homosexuality within the film industry, and he fought against the homophobia in the film studios.
		"Cukor has often been attacked for his obedience to the studio system, his instistance on not interfering with the values of a screenplay and the commercial appeal of his films.
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/georgecukor.html (588 words)

	Queer History
		Born in New York in 1899, Cukor at first wanted to be a playwright, but he discovered he was better suited to stage managing and directing.
		Cukor moved on to Broadway, where he was in demand because of his talent for working with actresses; he seemed to empathize with their roles better than straight male directors did.
		Cukor's sexual orientation, in fact, was well known in the industry.
	www.planetout.com /pno/news/history/archive/cukor.html (508 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Biography - George Cukor
		A successful stage director in New York by the late 1920s, George Cukor began working in Hollywood as a dialogue director and filling other uncredited crew roles on such films as All Quiet on the Western Front.
		Cukor also directed her idiosyncratic '30s performances in Little Women, Sylvia Scarlett, and Holiday.
		One of Cukor's finest films was the 1954 musical A Star Is Born with Judy Garland and James Mason (despite its having been cut to ribbons by the studio).
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/Biography.asp?userid=2T8B0Q1YR8&CTR=588586 (308 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: George Cukor, Master of Elegance: Hollywood's Legendary Director and His Stars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		And although he was noted for his ability to draw fine individual performances from his casts, he was burdened with a reputation as a "woman's director." The author demonstrates that Cukor could as readily be called a "man's director" based on his work with John Barrymore, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn and other male stars.
		He covers Cukor's family background, education, theatrical influences, early stage career in New York and his move to the West Coast in 1929.
		These days, Cukor is probably best remembered for being fired during the production of Gone with the Wind (1939) and his unshakable reputation as a women's director.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0688112463 (357 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - George Cukor: Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		While not prone to great modesty, Cukor consistently waves off praise for some of his particular achievements and calls attention to others less obvious, lest they be passed over as the annals of cinema are compiled.
		Cukor's withering opinion of pretension in the film industry and in movie criticism is amply illustrated in the interviews.
	www.variety.com /article/VE1117917284 (777 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: On Cukor (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Cukor had a reputation as a "women's director," and appropriately, this 90-minute documentary opens with a montage of film clips featuring celebrated actresses.
		The documentary balances its examination of Cukor's directorial approach with glimpses at his private life, from his days of skipping school to go to the theater, to the "open secret" of his homosexuality.
		In a career that spanned four decades, George Cukor directed such influential and immortal films as Dinner At Eight, Camille, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, Born Yesterday, The Women, A Star is Born (the Garland-Mason version) and My Fair Lady.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000059HBY?v=glance (725 words)

	George Cukor: A Short Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries
		George Cukor : a critical study and filmography Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1985.
		George Cukor London : Secker and Warburg in association with the British Film Institute, 1976.
		Director George Cukor discusses the making of "Rich and famous" and the later years of his career; plus comments from Jacqueline Bisset.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/cukor.html (1650 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Cukor, George
		In spite of his devotion to the dream and the dreamer, Cukor was realist enough to know that such liaisons are rare and fleeting.
		Cukor's reputation as the pioneer maker of divas does not take into account his brilliance in exploring the artistic temperament and the struggle for self-expression in subtle variations throughout his career.
		This film, which revisits Cukor's theme of the artistic temperament at odds with society and itself, was an update of the Bette Davis-Miriam Hopkins vehicle Old Acquaintance (1943).
	www.glbtq.com /arts/cukor_g,2.html (616 words)

	Cukor, George -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		George was elected to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in 1974.
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		In a dramatization, George Washington recalls crossing the Delaware, spending the winter at Valley Forge and defeating the British at the Battle of Yorktown.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028145?tocId=9028145&query=spencer (808 words)

	George Cukor at Reel Classics
		Cukor directed Greta Garbo in what is probably her most famous role, Marguerite Gautier in CAMILLE (1937), the film adaptation of Alexander Dumas' classic novel.
		A poster from the fourth of Cukor's nine films with Katharine Hepburn, her comeback film after having been labeled "boxoffice poison," THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940).
		Hepburn specifically requested Cukor for this picture which also starred Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart.
	www.reelclassics.com /Directors/Cukor/cukor.htm (324 words)

	George Cukor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director.
		He was born George Dewey Cukor in New York City to Hungarian parents, Victor F. and Helen (Gross) Cukor.
		George Cukor (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002030/) at the Internet Movie Database
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/George_Cukor (887 words)

	A Woman's Face (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although it was evident that Cukor's films were often centred on women, he was afterall, a 'woman's director', the possibility that Cukor's thematic was women's images was never given a real consideration.
		In contrast, Cukor's films aren't aggressive works but this doesn't mean that he is either lacking in artistry or in insight into women's identities and heterosexual relations.
		Cukor revealed that while her character is physically scarred "she's really a complete character, not the actress who's playing it.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/00/8/woman.html (1579 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Filmmaking: Directing: Directors: C: Cukor, George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cukor, George - Bright Lights Film Journal article containing a detailed analysis of the life and career of the director of such films as The Women, The Philadelphia Story, and My Fair Lady.
		Cukor, George - Learn about the life and the Hollywood-career of this classic film director.
		Yahoo Movies: George Cukor - Examine the biography, the filmography and the trophies he had won.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Directing/Directors/C/Cukor,_George (224 words)

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