The Cukor clock is ticking in Switzerland as the 66th Festival del Film Locarno presents — in collaboration with the Cinematheque Suisse, Turin’s National Cinema Museum, and the Film Society of ...

Who was George Cukor? His claims to fame include working on, but not directing, “The Wizard of Oz” (1939) and being fired from “Gone With the Wind” (1939) perhaps—the issue is debated—because Clark ...

The WSWS recently spoke to film historian, critic and biographer Joseph McBride in a video call about his new book George Cukor’s People: Acting for a Master Director, a study of the Hollywood ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. INTRODUCTION: IS GEORGE CUKOR AN AUTEUR? AND WHY DOES THAT MATTER?

The Dumas story of a tubercular courtesan is a classic only in its unrelenting morbidity, but Cukor makes it work, accenting the oozing romantic fatalism with marvelously fresh open-air sequences and ...

Practically everything ever written about the venerable George Cukor has focused on his facility with style. Little wonder, then, that in this compilation of 21 interviews, Cukor is urged to reminisce ...

Perhaps the most astute assessment of George Cukor’s moviemaking career, which spanned 51 years (1930–1981), was delivered by the auteur himself. “There are lots of creative directors who can seize a ...

NEW YORK -- A "lost" film (briefly) resurfaces: One of George Cukor's major films of the 1940s that never shows up in any Cukor film retrospective is the 1944 Fox release "Winged Victory." It is ...

Adam’s Rib, a 1949 sorta-romantic comedy about feuding married lawyers who take opposite sides of a criminal case, was the seventh of ten collaborations between actress Katharine Hepburn and director ...

This is the second part of an interview with Joseph McBride, author of George Cukor’s People. The first part of the interview and a comment on the book were posted January 8. David Walsh: You’ve ...