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George Dewey Cukor (/ ˈ k juː k ɔːr / KEW-kor; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick , the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including ...
My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy-drama film adapted from the 1956 Lerner and Loewe stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion.With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach ...
Gaslight. (1944 film) Gaslight is a 1944 American psychological thriller film directed by George Cukor, and starring Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten and Angela Lansbury in her film debut. Adapted by John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, and John L. Balderston from Patrick Hamilton 's play Gas Light (1938), it follows a young woman whose ...
George Cukor. Cukor in 1973. George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American movie director. He made many comedy movies and movies based on books. Cukor directed several of RKO 's most important movies such as Little Women (1933). At MGM he directed Dinner at Eight (1933), David Copperfield (1935) Romeo and Juliet (1936 ...
Nov 22, 2002 · On Cukor. November 22, 2002. Born a few months before the twentieth century (July 7th, 1899), Cukor was a man of medium height and solid, stocky build, features sharp as perfect projection on a ...
Jun 11, 2018 · George Cukor >Known for his ability to elicit great performances, American film director >George Cukor (1899-1983) was a stylistic craftsman who made elegant comedies >and dramas from the 1930s through the 1960s.He won an Academy Award in 1964 >for directing the musical My Fair Lady.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 ...
