George Cukor
American film director
Died when: 83 years 201 days (1002 months)Star Sign: Cancer
George Dewey Cukor (/ˈkjuːkɔːr/;July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and film producer.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? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Our Betters (1933), and Little Women (1933).
When Selznick moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933, Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight (1933) and David Copperfield (1935) for Selznick, and Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936) for Irving Thalberg.
He was replaced as one of the directors of Gone with the Wind (1939), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Director for My Fair Lady (1964), which was his fifth time nominated.
He continued to work into the 1980s.
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