George Cukor

George Cukor

July 7, 1899 · 127 years old

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), Litt…

Known For

29 titles
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My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

1964 · 2h 50m · Movie

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.

7.7
2
The Philadelphia Story

The Philadelphia Story

1940 · 1h 52m · Movie

After 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.

7.8
3
Gaslight

Gaslight

1944 · 1h 54m · Movie

Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wif...

7.8
4
Adam's Rib

Adam's Rib

1949 · 1h 41m · Movie

Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.

7.4
5
A Star Is Born

A Star Is Born

1954 · 2h 34m · Movie

In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

7.5
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Holiday

Holiday

1938 · 1h 35m · Movie

A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.

7.7
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Born Yesterday

Born Yesterday

1950 · 1h 43m · Movie

While in Washington to lobby for favorable legislation, a garbage tycoon hires a reporter to teach his ex-showgirl mistress proper etiquette to better fit in with high society, but she ends up learning more than he bargained for.

7.5
8
Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight

1933 · 1h 51m · Movie

As an aspiring New York socialite prepares for a lavish dinner party, her guests find themselves consumed by a tangle of business, romantic, and personal crises - all of which come to a head on the big night.

7.5
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Camille

Camille

1936 · 1h 49m · Movie

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

7.3
10
Little Women

Little Women

1933 · 1h 55m · Movie

A chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.

7.2
11
Let's Make Love

Let's Make Love

1960 · 1h 59m · Movie

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.

6.4
12
Pat and Mike

Pat and Mike

1952 · 1h 35m · Movie

Pat is a women's sports sensation unless her fiancé is around. Her new shady manager Mike keeps them apart and develops feelings for her.

6.9
13
David Copperfield

David Copperfield

1935 · 2h 10m · Movie

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

7.3
14
It Should Happen to You

It Should Happen to You

1954 · 1h 26m · Movie

When a young woman with dreams of fame rents a billboard to advertise herself, her life changes overnight.

7.2
15
A Double Life

A Double Life

1947 · 1h 44m · Movie

A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.

6.9
16
A Woman's Face

A Woman's Face

1941 · 1h 46m · Movie

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

7.2
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Keeper of the Flame

Keeper of the Flame

1943 · 1h 40m · Movie

Journalist Steve O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) wants to write a biography of a national hero who died when his car ran off a bridge. Steve receives conflicting reports and tales that make him question what the truth about the hero is.

6.7
18
Les Girls

Les Girls

1957 · 1h 54m · Movie

The former members of a dance troupe are suing because of recently published memoirs. Each one insists on own point of view.

6.6
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Bhowani Junction

Bhowani Junction

1956 · 1h 50m · Movie

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

6.4
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Rich and Famous

Rich and Famous

1981 · 1h 57m · Movie

Liz and Merry become BFFs in college. A decade later, Liz is a serious writer with writer's block, and Merry is a homemaker and a mom who has written a novel. Other bestsellers, riches, and fame follow.

5.8
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A Bill of Divorcement

A Bill of Divorcement

1932 · 1h 10m · Movie

A man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.

6.5
22
Heller in Pink Tights

Heller in Pink Tights

1960 · 1h 40m · Movie

Story of theatrical troupe that travels through the Old West.

5.9
23
A Life of Her Own

A Life of Her Own

1950 · 1h 48m · Movie

A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.

6.3
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Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins

1976 · 1h 40m · Movie

An aging actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover, and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her ...

7.7
25
Desire Me

Desire Me

1947 · 1h 31m · Movie

Released from a POW camp at the end of WW2, a French soldier tricks the wife of a fellow POW into believing her husband was killed by the Germans and seduces the grieving woman, but the 'dead' husband eventually returns home.

6.0
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Hot Spell

Hot Spell

1958 · 1h 26m · Movie

A housewife is doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart, a fact she's trying to ignore. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.

6.9
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Rockabye

Rockabye

1932 · 1h 8m · Movie

Actress Judy Carroll, from the gas-house district has been trained, educated and developed so well by her manager, that not even the publicity-seeking world of the theater has guessed her antecedents. But she has not loved well or...

5.7
28
I Met My Love Again

I Met My Love Again

1938 · 1h 17m · Movie

College sweethearts Julie and Ives have planned to marry. Their plans go amiss when Julie meets a weak writer and runs off to marry him. After her husband dies, she's left in Paris, penniless and with a daughter to support. She de...

5.5
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Something's Got to Give

Something's Got to Give

1962 · 37m · Movie

Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudden August 1962 death.

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