George Cukor
Film director
1899 – 1983
Who was George Cukor?
George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including What Price Hollywood?, A Bill of Divorcement, Our Betters, and Little Women. When Selznick moved to MGM in 1933 Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight and David Copperfield for Selznick and Romeo and Juliet and Camille for Irving Thalberg.
He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind, but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam's Rib, Born Yesterday, A Star Is Born and My Fair Lady. He continued to work into the 1980s.
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- Born
- Jul 7, 1899
Lower East Side - Also known as
- George Dewey Cukor
- Parents
- Religion
- Judaism
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Hungarian people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- DeWitt Clinton High School
- Died
- Jan 24, 1983
Los Angeles - Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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