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George Dewey Cukor ( /ˈkjuːkər/; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) 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 he 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.
Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, the younger child and only son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants Victor, an assistant district attorney, and Helen Ilona (née Gross) Cukor. His parents selected his middle name in honor of Spanish–American War hero George Dewey. Unlike the Jews of Poland and Russia whose first language was Yiddish, Hungarian Jews did not adopt Yiddish as their primary language. Therefore, the Cukor family, subscribing to the norm of their country of origin, was not a Yiddish speaking household. The family was not particularly religious, pork was a staple on the dinner table, and when he started attending temple as a boy, Cukor learned Hebrew phonetically, with no real understanding of the meaning of the words or what they represented. As a result, he was ambivalent about his faith and dismissive of old world traditions from childhood, and as an adult he embraced Anglophilia to remove himself even further from his roots.
Documental: George Cukor biografía (George Cukor biography)
The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor (deutsch untertitelt)
My Fair Lady and George Cukor Win Best Picture and Directing: 1965 Oscars
George Cukor speaking at UCLA 4/9/1971
George Cukor Distracting Marilyn Monroe On SGTG Set(RARE)
Movie Directors - Jean Negulesco and George Cukor Interviewed About Marilyn Monroe in August 1962
Documental: George Cukor biografía (nuevo) (George Cukor biography)
"Love Among the Ruins" Katharine Hepburn - Lawrence Olvier - George Cukor (subtitulado)
Frame By Frame: George Cukor
The Women (George Cukor, 1939) - Trailer
Joan Crawford Interview on Elizabeth Taylor & George Cukor
Marilyn Monroe - George Cukor shouting profanity At Marilyn On Set??
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