George Cukor
George Cukor
George Dewey Cukorwas 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 Eightand David Copperfieldfor Selznick and Romeo and Julietand Camillefor Irving Thalberg...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 July 1899
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.
I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.
I don't think you can teach people how to be funny. You can make suggestions about how to speak a line or get a laugh, but it has to be in them.
You're just poor cornball provincial people, you critics; you just don't know what the hell you're talking about.