Biography: George Cukor |
A successful stage director in New York by the late 1920s, George Cukor began working in Hollywood as a dialogue director and filling other uncredited crew roles on such films as All Quiet on the Western Front. In 1930, he co-directed his first... more
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Cast: Meg Ryan
Tags: Melodrama Comedy of Manners Comedy Drama
Length: 117min
Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success in this glossy remake of Old Acquaintance. Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith...
Cast: Katharine Hepburn
Tags: Inspirational Drama Drama
Length: 93min
Welsh-born writer Emlyn Williams' 1938 play The Corn is Green originally starred Ethel Barrymore as L.C. Moffat, the strong-willed schoolteacher under whose guidance the illiterate Welsh teenager Morgan Evans matriculates as an honor student. Bette...
Tags: Romance Period Film Comedy of Manners Sophisticated Comedy Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama
Length: 100min
Made for television, Love Among the Ruins was a precious one-time-only collaboration between stars Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Oliver, and director George Cukor. The scene is Victorian London, where wealthy widow Hepburn is being sued for breach of...
Tags: Period Film Drama
Length: 115min
Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial minister, Justine works her way up from her beginnings as a hooker, but continues to use her sexual allure as a tool to win her...
Cast: George Cukor
Tags: Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 109min
In the lively comedy/adventure Travels with My Aunt, adapted from Graham Green's book, Henry (Alec McCowan), a timid, bookish accountant whose life seems to have died stillborn, discovers how to live with gusto thanks to the rough ministrations of his...
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor Ava Gardner
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends Fantasy Family
Length: 100min
The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit),...
Cast: Audrey Hepburn
Tags: Musical Comedy Musical Romance Musical
Length: 170min
At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy ~Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza...
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Biopic Drama
Length: 130min
Hoping to recapture the success of its 1945 Frederic Chopin biopic A Song to Remember, Columbia Pictures concocted the 1960 Technicolor costume drama Song Without End. Dirk Bogarde is cast as musical genius Franz Liszt. Bogarde's piano scenes are...
Cast: Jane Fonda
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama Ensemble Film
Length: 125min
George Cukor directed this sanitized version of Irving Wallace's tawdry best-seller concerning a survey of the sexual habits of American women. Psychologist George C. Chapman (Andrew Duggan) arrives in a Los Angeles suburb with his assistant Paul...
Cast: Sophia Loren Anthony Quinn
Tags: Comedy Western Western
Length: 100min
The talents of the cast and director George Cukor (A Star Is Born, My Fair Lady), combine to bring off this otherwise routine Western based on a Louis L'Amour novel. Sophia Loren is Angela Rossini, a woman who seems to create the situations she gets...
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