Permit me a moment of film geekdom, in which I ramble on (probably at length) about how incredibly awesome I think George Cukor is. Together, he and Howard Hawks directed most of my favorite Golden Age movies. There is, I suppose, a rather important difference between a director being a brilliant director and a director with a continuous output of much-loved films, but then again, the two often coincide as well.
So, the awesomeness of George Cukor. Firstly, a list of his films that I feel licensed to comment upon, being as I’ve seen them: A Bill of Divorcement, Dinner at Eight, Little Women, Camille, The Philadelphia Story, Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, A Star is Born, Pat and Mike, My Fair Lady. Also, unfortunately for him, Cukor was slated to direct and then kicked off both Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz (1939 could not have been a […]
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