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Merchandise AV Gallery Downloads Giveaways ... Directors George Cukor Article Bibliography Downloads THE PHILADELPHIA STORY ... MY FAIR LADY Best known in his earlier days as the man who brought many a classic costume novel to the screen, George Cukor's 50-plus year directing career later expanded to include thrillers, screwball romantic comedies, and even musicals. Sometimes labeled as a "woman's director," Cukor lead eight of his leading ladies to Best Actress- nominated performances and himself received five Best Director nominations over the course of his career.
Cukor directed Greta Garbo in what is probably her most famous role, Marguerite Gautier in CAMILLE (1937), the film adaptation of Alexander Dumas' classic novel. Also starring Robert Taylor and Lionel Barrymore , Garbo earned this film's only Oscar nomination, but it remains a treasured classic. HOLIDAY (1938) starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant is a classic Depression-era screwball comedy about a non-conformist ( Grant ) who finds more than a friend in New York society daughter Linda Seton ( Hepburn A poster from the fourth of Cukor's nine films with Katharine Hepburn , her comeback film after having been labeled "boxoffice poison," | |
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