George Cukor: Top Oscar Directors for Actors
Known as a refined “woman’s director,” George Cukor has had his considerable output either relegated to the sidelines or simply dismissed by those who like their directors macho and their films male-centered. Not helping matters is the general perception that Cukor was merely a hired hand for the likes of David O. Selznick at RKO and Louis B. Mayer at MGM, not an auteur following a clear professional path. Except, of course, for the (assumed) fact that he was a woman’s director — and we’re back to square one.
In truth, George Cukor was one of the most remarkable directors of the studio era. Like Elia Kazan, Cukor served his apprenticeship in the theater, thus developing into an excellent actor’s director. [...]
by Andre Soares | January 28, 2007
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Tags: Academy Awards, Born Yesterday, Classic Movies, David Manners, Film Awards, Gay Interest, George Cukor, Judy Holliday, Katharine Hepburn, Marie Dressler
Best Films – 1950
Simone Signoret, Gérard Philipe in La Ronde
FILM
All About Eve
d, scr: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Annie Get Your Gun
d: George Sidney; scr: Sidney Sheldon
Caged
d: John Cromwell; scr: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld
Harvey
d: Henry Koster; scr: Mary C. Chase, Oscar Brodney
King Solomon’s Mines
d: Compton Bennett, Andrew Marton; scr: Helen Deutsch
Madeleine
d: David Lean; scr: Stanley Haynes, Nicholas Phipps
The Magnificent Yankee
d: John Sturges; scr: Emmet Lavery
Panic in the Streets
d: Elia Kazan; scr: Richard Murphy, Edward Anhalt, Edna Anhalt
La Ronde / Roundabout
d: Max Ophüls; scr: Jacques Natanson, Max Ophüls
So Long at the Fair
d: Antony Darnborough, [...]
by Andre Soares | August 31, 2004
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Tags: All About Eve, Best Films, Born Yesterday, Cheaper by the Dozen, Classic Movies, Erich von Stroheim Machiko Kyo, Gloria Swanson, La Ronde, Max Ophüls, Orpheus, Oscar Straus, Sunset Blvd., William Holden
