George Dewey Cukor or George Zukor ( born George Dewey Cukor ; July 7, 1899 - January 24, 1983 ) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter , many of whose films are Lunch at Eight , Philadelphia Story , Gas Light , and Rib Adama ”and“ My Fair Lady ”(1964, Academy Award for Best Director) - entered the Hollywood Golden Fund.
| George Cukor | |
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| George Dewey Cukor | |
 George Cukor in 1973, photographer Allan Warren | |
| Date of Birth | July 7, 1899 |
| Place of Birth | Manhattan , New York , USA |
| Date of death | January 24, 1983 (83 years old) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Profession | filmmaker |
| Career | - |
| Awards | Prime Time Emmy Award Directors Guild of America Award Academy Award for Best Director [d] ( 1970 ) |
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Biography
Born in New York in a family of Jews from Hungary. As an ordinary, he fought on the fronts of both world wars. Since 1920, he worked in Broadway theaters , in 1928 he moved to Hollywood. In the 1930s, he worked under the direction of the famous producer David Selznik on the adaptations of European classics (including “ David Copperfield ”). According to Selznik’s plan, it was Kyukor who was supposed to shoot the film version of Gone With the Wind , but shortly before the filming began, he left the project.
Cukor was known for his diligent work with actors. He holds an interesting record in this regard: three actors for the films of Kukor were awarded an Oscar for the main male role. The legendary Ingrid Bergman received her Oscar for Gas Light. At the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, he made four films with actress Judy Holiday , who also won an Oscar for one of them. The 4-time Oscar winner Catherine Hepburn played her first role with Cucor , and Greta Garbo played her parting role.
Kukor’s penultimate work in the cinema brought him experience of cooperation with Soviet filmmakers: on the wave of detente , together with the 20th Century Fox and Lenfilm studios , the film “The Blue Bird ” based on the play of the same name by Maurice Meterlink was shot.
Outside the set, Cucor was known as Bonvivan. Regular parties at his villa gathered a lot of Hollywood celebrities. He was not interested in women; he lived with young men. Once he was even arrested for "indecent behavior", but thanks to the intervention of Hollywood bigwigs, the case was quickly hushed up [1] . Kyukor died of a heart attack on January 24, 1983 and was buried in the "star" Glendale cemetery [2] . He left behind a fortune of several million dollars.
Filmography
- 1930 - Grumpy
- 1930 - Virtuous Sin
- 1930 - The Royal Family of Broadway
- 1931 - The Tarnished Lady
- 1931 - Girls About Town
- 1932 - A Bill of Divorcement
- 1932 - / Rockabye
- 1932 - How Much Does Hollywood Cost? / What Price Hollywood?
- 1932 - One Hour with You (with Ernst Lubitsch )
- 1933 - Dinner At Eight / Dinner At Eight
- 1933 - / Our Betters
- 1933 - Little Women
- 1935 - The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
- 1935 - No Ladies Only
- 1935 - Sylvia Scarlett
- 1936 - The Lady with the Camellias / Camille
- 1936 - Romeo and Juliet
- 1938 - Holiday
- 1939 - Zaza
- 1939 - Women
- 1940 - The Philadelphia Story
- 1940 - Susan and God
- 1941 - Two-Faced Woman / Two-Faced Woman
- 1941 - A Woman's Face
- 1942 - Her Cardboard Lover / Her Cardboard Lover
- 1942 - Keeper of the Flame
- 1944 - Gaslight
- 1944 - Winged Victory
- 1947 - A Double Life
- 1949 - Edward, My Son
- 1949 - Adam's Rib
- 1950 - Born Yesterday
- 1950 - / A Life of Her Own
- 1951 - / The Model and the Marriage Broker
- 1952 - The Marrying Kind
- 1952 - Pat and Mike
- 1953 - The Actress
- 1954 - A Star Is Born
- 1954 - It Should Happen to You
- 1955 - Bhowani Junction Station
- 1957 - Girls / Les Girls
- 1957 - Wild Is the Wind
- 1960 - Heller in Pink Tights
- 1960 - Endless Song / Song Without End (completed the picture after the death of Charles Widor )
- 1960 - Let's Make Love
- 1962 - The Chapman Report
- 1962 - Something's Got to Give
- 1964 - My Fair Lady
- 1969 - Justine / Justine
- 1972 - Travels With My Aunt
- 1975 - Love Among the Ruins
- 1976 - The Blue Bird
- 1981 - Rich and Famous
Notes
- ↑ McGilligan, Patrick, George Cukor: A Double Life . New York: St. Martin's Press 1991. ISBN 0-312-05419-X , p. 133.
- ↑ George Cukor
Links
- George Cukor on the Internet Movie Database
- Bibliography of Kukor (English)