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 656 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 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 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 George Cukor written by Patrick McGilligan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the highest-paid studio contract directors of his time and dubbed the "women's director", George Cukor was five times nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director; and 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 George Cukor s People written by Joseph McBride and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 0 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 James Bernardoni and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book George Cukor written by Emanuel Levy and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With access to Cukor's personal correspondence dating from the 1930s and in-depth interviews with over 100 legendary Hollywood figures--including Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, and Rex Harrison--Levy has compiled the definitive biography of the award-winning director of My Fair Lady, A Star is Born and other acclaimed films. Photos. Filmography.
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 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The various essays in this volume, all written by prominent experts in the field, offer critical discussions of every feature film Cukor directed and include a rich trove of valuable information about their production histories.
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 224 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 Gene D. Phillips and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that a director alone can and must confer artistic unity on a motion picture, Phillips traces George Cukor's background as a stage director and movie-dialogue coach. His discussions of the films are organized thematically, making it possible to treat as a whole the Tracy and Hepburn vehicles, the many adaptations of stage plays and novels, and the few but striking musicals. He also examines Cukor's considerable reputation as a woman's director and concludes that the indefatigably professional Cukor is the prototype of the ideal Hollywood director, uncompromising and able to weather the vicissitudes of public taste and studio interference.
Download or read book On Cukor written by Gavin Lambert and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The heart of the book remains intact. In an unusually candid series of taped interviews with Lambert in the early 1970s, one of Hollywood's finest directors shared some revealing and intimate thoughts on his craft.
Download or read book George Cukor written by Carlos Clarens and published by London : Secker and Warburg [for] the British Film Institute. This book was released on 1976 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 written by George Cukor and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recollections of George Cukor written by George Cukor and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of the effect of his work in the theater on his career directing films; comments on his work in Hollywood.
Download or read book George Cukor written by Jean Douchet and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tiger in the Garden written by Speed Lamkin and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After marrying a young woman from a wealthy family, Jim Conway acquires his own wealth in early 20th century New Orleans but fails to find happiness in his marriage.
