Download or read book Cukor Co written by Gary Carey and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cukor & Co. is an assessment of one of Hollywood's outstanding directors, and of the writers and actors who participated in his films. It gives an account of the making of some fifty films, from such early successes as Dinner at Eight and Little Women, up through A Star is Born and My Fair Lady.
Download or read book George Cukor s People written by Joseph McBride and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The director of classic films such as Sylvia Scarlett, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady, George Cukor is widely admired but often misunderstood. Reductively stereotyped in his time as a “woman’s director”—a thinly veiled, disparaging code for “gay”—he brilliantly directed a wide range of iconic actors and actresses, including Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, Marilyn Monroe, and Maggie Smith. As Katharine Hepburn, the star of ten Cukor films, told the director, “All the people in your pictures are as goddamned good as they can possibly be, and that’s your stamp.” In this groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated critical study, Joseph McBride provides insightful and revealing essayistic portraits of Cukor’s actors in their most memorable roles. The queer filmmaker gravitated to socially adventurous, subversively rule-breaking, audacious dreamers who are often sexually transgressive and gender fluid in ways that seem strikingly modern today. McBride shows that Cukor’s seemingly self-effacing body of work is characterized by a discreet way of channeling his feelings through his actors. He expertly cajoled actors, usually gently but sometimes with bracing harshness, to delve deeply into emotional areas they tended to keep safely hidden. Cukor’s wry wit, his keen sense of psychological and social observation, his charm and irony, and his toughness and resilience kept him active for more than five decades in Hollywood. George Cukor’s People gives him the in-depth, multifaceted examination his rich achievement deserves.
Download or read book George Cukor written by Patrick McGilligan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the highest-paid studio contract directors of his time, George Cukor was nominated five times for an Academy Award as Best Director. In publicity and mystique he was dubbed the “women’s director” for guiding the most sensitive leading ladies to immortal performances, including Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Garland, and—in ten films, among them The Philadelphia Story and Adam’s Rib—his lifelong friend and collaborator Katharine Hepburn. But behind the “women’s director” label lurked the open secret that set Cukor apart from a generally macho fraternity of directors: he was a homosexual, a rarity among the top echelon. Patrick McGilligan’s biography reveals how Cukor persevered within a system fraught with bigotry while becoming one of Hollywood’s consummate filmmakers.
Download or read book What Price Hollywood written by Elyce Rae Helford and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady. His collaborations with so-called difficult actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe unsettled producers even as his ticket sales lined their pockets. Fired from Gone with the Wind for giving Vivien Leigh more screen time than Clark Gable, Cukor quickly earned a double-sided reputation as a "woman's director." While the label celebrated his ability to help actresses deliver their best performances, the epithet also branded the gay director as suitable only for work on female-centered movies such as melodramas and romantic comedies. Desperate for success after a failed drag film nearly ended his career, Cukor swore to work within Hollywood's constraints. Nevertheless, What Price Hollywood? Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor finds that Cukor continued to explore gender and sexuality on-screen. Drawing on a broad array of theoretical lenses, Elyce Rae Helford examines how Cukor's award-winning films—titles including My Fair Lady and The Philadelphia Story—as well as his lesser-known films engage Hollywood masculinity and gender performativity through camp, drag, and mixed genres. Blending biography with critical analysis of more than twenty-five films, What Price Hollywood? tells the story of a once-in-a-generation director who produced some of the best films in history.
Download or read book George Cukor written by Murray Pomerance and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Cukor is one of the studio era's most famous and admired directors, with many of the American cinema's most beloved classics to his credit, including The Women, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, A Star is Born, and My Fair Lady to his credit. Not himself a scriptwriter, he was particularly adept at choosing which properties to adapt and then managing the adaptation process with verve and effectiveness. What makes for a good adapter, for a talented master of ceremonies who knows where to put everything and everybody (including the camera)? Who knows how to make a property his own even while enhancing the value it has as belonging to someone else? The essays in this volume provide a series of complementary answers to those questions. Though many of his films are celebrated, Cukor has hitherto not received appropriate critical attention. Cukor's interest in the various forms of indoor cinema lacked the generic focus of Ford's westerns and Hitchcock's thrillers. His style was theatricality writ large, a successful transference to the screen of what he had learned from his successful Broadway career, including the outsized, often flamboyant handling of emotionality. Yet Cukor was also a man of the cinema, fascinated by the ever-developing potentials of his adopted medium, as shown by the more than fifty films he directed in a career that endured from the early sound era into the 1970s.
Download or read book The New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
Download or read book The Horseless Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York written by New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gay Lesbian Theatrical Legacy written by Billy J. Harbin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time
Download or read book George Cukor written by George Cukor and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected interviews with the director of such films as The Philadelphia Story, Adam's Rib, A Star Is Born, and My Fair Lady
Download or read book Film and Literature written by Wendell M. Aycock and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offered here is a consideration of films and the dramas or books from which they derive as seen through the eyes of literary critics, a veteran Hollywood producer, and the screenwriters themselves.
Download or read book Marilyn Monroe written by Keith Badman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the final two years of the iconic star's life, offering insight into the true nature of her relationship with JFK, her actual paternity, her brutal incarceration at a mental asylum, and her sexual exploitation by mobsters.
Download or read book Charles Bronson written by Michael R. Pitts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and discussion is a survey of the critical responses to the work. The great Charles Laughton once said Bronson "has the strongest face in the business, and he is also one of its best actors." Pretty high praise for an actor who, though loved by fans worldwide, has been consistently underestimated by critics. Bronson's career has spanned five decades, from such television appearances in The Fugitive, Rawhide, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will Travel as well as the telemovie A Family of Cops (1995) and its two sequels. He will long be remembered for his role as urban vigilante Paul Kersey in the Death Wish films. Bronson is one of the most enigmatic, and also most recognizable, of all film stars.
Download or read book Video Versions written by Thomas L. Erskine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-03-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of our favorite films began as plays—some as well known as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and some not so well known as You've Got Mail's origin, a 1937 play Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo. Video Versions identifies nearly 300 films and their theatrical origins, providing readers with an overview of the films and highlighting similarities and differences to the source plays. Perfect for teachers, students, and anyone interested in theater and film, it is the most complete resource available for video versions of plays. Each entry provides: the original play's title, author, and year of publication; the name of the film, year of production, director and adapter; the main cast and the characters they play; running time and rating if available. Following a plot summary, a critical analysis provides the similarities and differences of the play and film, including character and plot changes, setting, missing or added scenes, special film techniques, and behind-the-scenes information such as who turned down or lost particular parts when the play was adapted to film. A short list of sources for further reading follows each entry. Information about contacting distributors—for obtaining the films—is included in the introduction and an extensive index completes the volume.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Things Perfectly Queer written by Alexander Doty and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The City Record written by New York (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Official canvas of votes (varies slightly) 1878-1943.
