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Gender

Male

Birthday

1899-07-07 (125 years old)

Place of Birth

Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

George Cukor

Biography:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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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Known For

Acting

2020

Anna Karina, Remember as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2019

Sid & Judy as Self (archive footage)

2018

2009

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)

2004

Cary Grant: A Class Apart as Self (archive footage)
Judy Garland: By Myself as Self (archive footage)

2003

2000

On Cukor as Self (archive footage)
Abendschau as Self

1995

1994

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess as Self (archive footage)

1990

Marilyn: Something's Got to Give as Self (archive footage)

1988

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)

1975

1974

1973

1969

Garbo as Self

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1961

Hollywood: The Selznick Years as Self (uncredited)

1959

1957

1953

The Oscars as Self

Directing

1981

Rich and Famous as Director

1979

The Corn Is Green as Director

1976

The Blue Bird as Director

1975

1972

1969

Justine as Director

1964

My Fair Lady as Director

1962

The Chapman Report as Director

1960

Let's Make Love as Director
Song Without End as Director

1958

Hot Spell as Director

1957

Les Girls as Director
Wild Is the Wind as Director

1956

Bhowani Junction as Director

1954

A Star Is Born as Director

1953

The Actress as Director

1952

Pat and Mike as Director
The Marrying Kind as Director

1950

Born Yesterday as Director
A Life of Her Own as Director

1949

Adam's Rib as Director
Edward, My Son as Director

1947

A Double Life as Director
Desire Me as Director

1944

Gaslight as Director
Winged Victory as Director

1943

1942

1941

A Woman's Face as Director
Two-Faced Woman as Director

1940

Susan and God as Director

1939

The Women as Director

1938

Holiday as Director
Zaza as Director

1937

The Prisoner of Zenda as Co-Director

1936

Camille as Director
Romeo and Juliet as Director

1935

Sylvia Scarlett as Director
David Copperfield as Director
No More Ladies as Director

1933

Dinner at Eight as Director
Little Women as Director
Our Betters as Director

1932

Rockabye as Director
The Animal Kingdom as Director
One Hour with You as Co-Director

1931

Girls About Town as Director
Tarnished Lady as Director

1930

Grumpy as Director
The Virtuous Sin as Director

Crew

1932

One Hour with You as Dialogue Coach

1929

The River of Romance as Dialogue Coach