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George Cukor

George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936).

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind (1939), but went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954) and My Fair Lady (1964). He continued to work into the 1980s.

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Movies Made By George Cukor (55)

Rich and Famous (1981)

Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich. ...

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The Corn Is Green (1979)

A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him. ...

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The Blue Bird (1976)

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entiti ...

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Love Among the Ruins (1976)

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to ...

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Travels with My Aunt (1972)

At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover. ...

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Justine (1969)

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentall ...

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My Fair Lady (1964)

A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society. ...

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The Chapman Report (1962)

A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women. ...

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Something's Got to Give (1962)

Something's Got to Give (1962) was an unfinished film starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin, and Cyd Charisse, intended as a remake of My Favorite Wife. Production was plagued by Monroe's frequent absences due to illness, leading to her firing and rehiring, ...

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Let's Make Love (1960)

When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell. ...

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Song Without End (1960)

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences. ...

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Heller in Pink Tights (1960)

Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes. In Cheyenne, they meet with applause, so they ...

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Hot Spell (1958)

Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, da ...

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Wild Is the Wind (1957)

A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause the two to have a tough time at keeping a marr ...

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Les Girls (1957)

After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of ...

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Bhowani Junction (1956)

Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India. ...

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A Star Is Born (1954)

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. ...

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It Should Happen to You (1954)

Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things, making a name for herself. Through a fluke of advertisin ...

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The Actress (1953)

The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom. ...

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Pat and Mike (1952)

Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets flustered by his presence at the final holes. He wants them to get married and forget the whole thing, but she ...

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The Marrying Kind (1952)

Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved. ...

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The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951)

A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results. ...

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Born Yesterday (1950)

Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. ...

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A Life of Her Own (1950)

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man. ...

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Adam's Rib (1949)

A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court. ...

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Edward, My Son (1949)

Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills. ...

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A Double Life (1947)

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage. ...

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Desire Me (1947)

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death. ...

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Winged Victory (1944)

Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the five struggle through the rigid training and grueling tests involv ...

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Gaslight (1944)

A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion. ...

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Keeper of the Flame (1943)

Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero. ...

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Her Cardboard Lover (1942)

A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo. ...

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Two-Faced Woman (1941)

A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband. ...

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A Woman's Face (1941)

A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman. ...

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The Philadelphia Story (1940)

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. ...

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Susan and God (1940)

A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group. ...

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The Women (1939)

A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays. ...

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Zaza (1939)

A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat. ...

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Holiday (1938)

Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while the ...

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I Met My Love Again (1938)

In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michae ...

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The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bri ...

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Camille (1936)

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and women turned courtesans exult in pleasure. One such woman is Marguerite Gautier, who begins ...

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Romeo and Juliet (1936)

Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families. ...

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Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with the questionable help of plenty others. ...

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No More Ladies (1935)

A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous. ...

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David Copperfield (1935)

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. ...

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Dinner at Eight (1933)

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan P ...

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Little Women (1933)

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. ...

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Our Betters (1933)

Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maintain a loveless marriage, a trade-off Pearl accepts in order to gain admittance to her husband's aristocrat ...

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Rockabye (1932)

A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play. ...

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A Bill of Divorcement (1932)

A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry. ...

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What Price Hollywood? (1932)

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaurant. Max invites Mary to his film premiere and, after a night of drinking and carousing, Mary is granted a ...

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One Hour with You (1932)

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce her, ...

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Girls About Town (1931)

A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan. ...

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Tarnished Lady (1931)

Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Nor ...

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Movies Starring George Cukor (18)

Anna Karina, Remember (2020)

Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the story of her memories with Jean-Luc Godard and the great directors she knew, her memorable meeting with Serge ...

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Sid & Judy (2019)

Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos. ...

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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2018)

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer to the stars. ...

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Fascination: Unauthorized Story of Marilyn Monroe (2012)

Marilyn Monroe is one of the most famous and adored icons of the 20th century. Like no other Hollywood star, she won the hearts of millions around the world. It's been said that: "Monroe played the best game with the worst hand." Her journey to stardom ste ...

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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (2009)

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special. ...

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Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004)

Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews. Produced as S18E03 of the long running series American Masters. ...

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Judy Garland: By Myself (2004)

As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life presented a smiling kid with the big voice, who, alongside Mickey Rooney, just wanted to put on a show. But d ...

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Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour (2003)

This documentary short subject for DVD gives a look at the making of Cole Porter's MGM classic, "Les Girls". Hosted by Finnish film legend and star of "Les Girls", Taina Elg tells of working with Gene Kelly, Kay Kendall and George Cukor on one of the last ...

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On Cukor (2000)

Widely thought of as "a woman's director," legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends and colleagues to provide a picture of the director's unique accomplishments and to trace the arc of his ...

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More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (1995)

This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "My Fair Lady," the classic musical about a poor young girl transformed into a woman of society through the tutoring of Prof. Henry Higgins. Includes footage of ...

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Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (1994)

An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and glamorous movie stars. ...

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Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (1990)

Documentary on Marilyn Monroe's final days and the production of "Something Got to Give. ...

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: The Making of a Movie Classic (1990)

Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of the film. ...

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The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (1988)

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage. ...

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James Stewart: A Wonderful Life (1987)

Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life. ...

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The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor (1973)

In the series of documentaries directed by Richard Schickel following classic film directors, this episode interviews the creative mind behind "My Fair Lady", "The Philadelphia Story", "Born Yesterday" among other classics. The great George Cukor reveals d ...

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Garbo, by Joan Crawford (1969)

Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo. ...

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Hollywood: The Selznick Years (1961)

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in the 30s and 40s. ...

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