George Cukor
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George Cukor (1899 – 1983) was an American film director and film producer.
He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations.
He is known for such films as What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Our Betters (1933), and Little Women (1933), Dinner at Eight (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936), Camille (1936), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956) and My Fair Lady (1964).
His work, along with that of Douglas Sirk, Max Ophüls, and Josef von Sternberg has been associated with the woman's film genre.
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Filmography
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Films
| Year | Title | Studio | Genre | Cast | Notes | |
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| 1930 | Grumpy | Paramount Pictures | Drama | Cyril Maude | Co-directed with Cyril Gardner | |
| The Virtuous Sin | Paramount Pictures | Drama | Kay Francis, Walter Huston, Kenneth MacKenna | Co-directed with Louis J. Gasnier | ||
| The Royal Family of Broadway | Paramount Pictures | Comedy | Fredric March, Ina Claire | Co-directed with Cyril Gardner | ||
| 1931 | Tarnished Lady | Paramount Pictures | Drama | Tallulah Bankhead, Clive Brook, Alexander Kirkland | ||
| Girls About Town | Paramount Pictures | Comedy | Kay Francis, Lilyan Tashman, Joel McCrea | |||
| 1932 | What Price Hollywood? | RKO Radio Pictures | Drama | Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman, Neil Hamilton | ||
| A Bill of Divorcement | RKO Radio Pictures | Drama | Katharine Hepburn, John Barrymore, Billie Burke | |||
| Rockabye | RKO Radio Pictures | Drama | Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Paul Lukas | Reworked the film in two weeks of retakes and was given credit over original directorGeorge Fitzmaurice | ||
| 1933 | Our Betters | RKO Radio Pictures | Drama | Constance Bennett | ||
| Dinner at Eight | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | John Barrymore, Jean Harlow, Marie Dressler, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Wallace Beery | |||
| Little Women | RKO Radio Pictures | Drama | Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Frances Dee, Douglass Montgomery | |||
| 1935 | David Copperfield | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Freddie Bartholomew, W. C. Fields, Lionel Barrymore | ||
| Sylvia Scarlett | RKO Radio Pictures | Comedy | Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Brian Aherne | |||
| 1936 | Romeo and Juliet | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Romance | Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone | ||
| Camille | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Romance | Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore | |||
| 1938 | Holiday | Columbia Pictures | Comedy | Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant | ||
| 1939 | Zaza | Paramount Pictures | Drama | Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall | ||
| The Women | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell | |||
| 1940 | Susan and God | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Joan Crawford, Fredric March | ||
| The Philadelphia Story | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Stewart | Nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture | ||
| 1941 | A Woman's Face | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt | ||
| Two-Faced Woman | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Constance Bennett | |||
| 1942 | Her Cardboard Lover | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, George Sanders | ||
| 1943 | Keeper of the Flame | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn | ||
| 1944 | Gaslight | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Thriller | Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, Joseph Cotten | Nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture | |
| Winged Victory | 20th Century-Fox, U.S. Army Air Forces | Drama | Lon McCallister, Jeanne Crain, Red Buttons, Don Taylor | |||
| 1947 | A Double Life | Kanin Productions | Film noir | Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters | ||
| 1949 | Edward, My Son | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr | ||
| Adam's Rib | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday | |||
| 1950 | A Life of Her Own | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Lana Turner, Ray Milland | ||
| Born Yesterday | Columbia Pictures | Comedy | Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden | Nominated for five Oscars including Best Picture | ||
| 1951 | The Model and the Marriage Broker | 20th Century Fox | Comedy | Thelma Ritter, Jeanne Crain, Scott Brady | ||
| 1952 | The Marrying Kind | Columbia Pictures | Comedy | Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray | ||
| Pat and Mike | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray | |||
| 1953 | The Actress | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright | ||
| 1954 | It Should Happen to You | Columbia Pictures | Comedy | Judy Holliday, Peter Lawford, Jack Lemmon | ||
| A Star Is Born | Warner Bros., Transcona Enterprises | Drama | Judy Garland, James Mason | Partially lost film | ||
| 1956 | Bhowani Junction | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Ava Gardner, Stewart Granger | ||
| 1957 | Les Girls | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Musical | Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall | ||
| Wild Is the Wind | Paramount Pictures | Drama | Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn | |||
| 1960 | Heller in Pink Tights | Paramount Pictures | Western | Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Steve Forrest | The final film was disavowed by Cukor | |
| Song Without End | William Goetz | Drama | Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Geneviève Page | Completed the film when Charles Vidor died during production | ||
| Let's Make Love | The Company of Artists | Musical | Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall | |||
| 1962 | The Chapman Report | DFZ Productions | Drama | Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns | ||
| 1964 | My Fair Lady | Warner Bros. | Musical | Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison | Winner of eight Oscars, including Best Picture | |
| 1969 | Justine | 20th Century Fox | Drama | Michael York, Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde | Replaced Joseph Strick shortly after production began | |
| 1972 | Travels with My Aunt | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Cindy Williams | ||
| 1975 | Love Among the Ruins | ABC Circle Films | Drama | Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier | Television film | |
| 1976 | The Blue Bird | 20th Century Fox, Lenfilm Studio, Tower International, Wenks Films | Drama | Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner | ||
| 1979 | The Corn Is Green | Warner Bros. Television | Drama | Katharine Hepburn, Bill Fraser, Ian Saynor | Television film | |
| 1981 | Rich and Famous | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen |
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Uncredited contributing work
| Year | Title | Studio | Genre | Cast | Notes |
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| 1932 | One Hour with You | Paramount Pictures | Musical | Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald | Directed part of the film when Ernst Lubitsch took ill and was credited as dialogue director |
| The Animal Kingdom | RKO Radio Pictures | Drama | Leslie Howard, Ann Harding, Myrna Loy | Uncredited | |
| 1934 | Manhattan Melodrama | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Crime | Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy | Directed additional scenes after production |
| 1935 | No More Ladies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Comedy | Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone | Completed filming when Edward H. Griffith took ill |
| 1938 | I Met My Love Again | Walter Wanger Productions | Romance | Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda | Assisted Joshua Logan in directing parts of the film |
| The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Selznick International Pictures | Adventure | Tommy Kelly, Jackie Moran | Shot some retakes after production completed | |
| 1939 | Gone With the Wind | Selznick International Pictures | Drama | Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard | Fired in the early stages of production, but a few of his scenes remain in the finished film |
| 1943 | "Resistance and Ohm's Law" | Army Signal Corps | Documentary | instructionalshort film<ref>McGilligan, p. 175.</ref> | |
| 1944 | I'll Be Seeing You | Selznick International Pictures | Drama | Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple | Replaced by William Dieterle during production |
| 1947 | Desire Me | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | Drama | Greer Garson, Robert Mitchum | Contributed to the film along with four other directors |
| 1958 | Hot Spell | Paramount Pictures | Drama | Shirley Booth, Anthony Quinn, Shirley MacLaine | Uncredited |
| 1962 | Something's Got to Give | 20th Century Fox | Comedy | Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, Cyd Charisse | The film was abandoned after Monroe's death / 37 minutes of footage survives |
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