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9781578063871

George Cukor

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    9781578063871

  • ISBN10:

    1578063876

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
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Summary

For investing movies with an image of style and glamour George Cukor (1899-1983) is considered one of the founding fathers of the Golden Age of Hollywood. The roll call of the great films he made and the stars he directed validates his rank as one of cinema's greatest moviemakers."The only really important thing I have to say about George Cukor", Katharine Hepburn proclaimed, "is that all the other directors I have worked with starred themselves. But George 'starred' the actor. He didn't want people to say, 'this great director.' He wanted them to say 'this great actor.'"Along with introducing Hepburn and Greta Garbo to American audiences, he worked with many of the most acclaimed movie actresses of his day, including Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Jean Harlow, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Crawford, Ingrid Bergman, Ava Gardner, Claudette Colbert, Angela Lansbury, Judy Holliday, Audrey Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe.These interviews are a pleasure to read because Cukor is so immersed in his subject and so forthright in his observations. He comes to life immediately with disarming candor and infectious enthusiasm for cinema and the people who make it.In addition to discussing his romantic comedies, Cukor talks about his famous screen adaptations of classic novels and plays, including Little Women (1933) and David Copperfield (1935). His experience of being fired by producer David O. Selznick partway through the shooting of Gone With the Wind (1939) surfaces in nearly every interview. Instead of having his career derailed by this dismissal, however, he continued his rise as one of America's premier directors. In his cornucopia of films are Holiday (1938), The Philadelphia Story(1940), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), Let's Make Love (1960), and My Fair Lady (1964).Cukor was a man of myriad dimensions. In his last years he opened up about his private life and his prev

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
Chronology xvii
Filmography xxi
Conversation with George Cukor
3(13)
John Gillett
David Robinson
George Cukor
16(33)
Richard Overstreet
George Cukor
49(18)
Charles Higham
Joel Greenberg
George Cukor: An Interview
67(6)
Gene D. Phillips
Surviving: An Interview with George Cukor
73(5)
John Russell Taylor
Travels with Cukor and Maggie Smith
78(3)
Wanda Hall
An Interview with George Cukor
81(11)
Jeff Wise
Robert Smith
George Cukor: Winging It
92(4)
Karin Winner
George Cukor--The Blue Bird
96(5)
Joseph Mcbride
Dialogue on Film: George Cukor
101(21)
American Film Institute
Self-Styled ``Lovable'' Cukor Recalls Stars and His Early Films
122(3)
Carol Olten
George Cukor's Magnificent Obsession
125(3)
Mary Rourke
The corn is still Green for Cukor
128(4)
Cecil Smith
A Conversation with George Cukor
132(5)
Beverly Gray
George Cukor: At Eighty-one, Still Young at Heart
137(4)
Kevin Thomas
Talking to George Cukor
141(3)
Bob Baker
George Cukor: Fifty Years of Feisty Filmmaking
144(6)
Tim Hunter
Carry On, Cukor
150(12)
Joseph McBride
Todd McCarthy
Every Day Isn't Christmas
162(5)
Gene D. Phillips
George Cukor: Fifty Years of Film-Making
167(7)
Gene D. Phillips
A Conversation with George Cukor
174(11)
Douglas W. Edwards
David B. Goodstein
Index 185

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