O ne of the great directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, George Cukor gave us innumerable classics—from Gaslight to A Star Is Born with Judy Garland to Best Picture-winner My Fair Lady—and ...

In 1982, The Advocate published an interview with film director and living legend of Hollywood’s golden age, George Cukor.The Advocate had existed since 1967 and was, at 15 years old, the name ...

George Cukor directing The Women (1939). Cukor would direct with the pages for that day’s shooting rolled up in his hand. By the end of the day, they’d be all mangled and full of sweat and ...

Throughout "George Cukor's People," he makes the case for Cukor as a major auteur by showing how delicately Cukor directed ...

In an exclusive excerpt from 'George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director,' film scholar Joseph McBride argues for 'Sylvia Scarlett.' ...

For the late George Cukor, who died in 1983 after a 50-year career that produced 50 feature films, the imprimatur from PBS’s preeminent biographical series is long overdue.

The answer, Mr. McBride tells us, is performance: Cukor, always known (or dismissed) as a “woman’s director,” was a guru of film actors, and it is through these actors that we see Cukor’s ...

In the end, director George Cukor gave up and told him to quasi-speak the whole thing as he had done in the stage version. 12. Hepburn was sick on set. Audrey Hepburn on set in 1964 ...

A Star is Born 1954 was a groundbreaking film for Oscar winning director George Cukor. Not only was it his 37th film, but it was also his first-ever musical and his first Technicolor effort.

One of the great directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, George Cukor gave us innumerable classics—from Gaslight to A Star Is Born with Judy Garland to Best Picture-winner My Fair Lady—and ...

First part of an interview with film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride about his new book George Cukor's People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood director whose ...