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 studios Head of Production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKOs 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 , Adams Rib , Born Yesterday , A Star Is Born , Bhowani Junction , and My Fair Lady . He continued to work into the 1980s.

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