George Cukor's biography

George Cukor is 84 years old film director born at New York City. He was born on Friday 7th of July 1899. According to year of birth 1899 he belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 7th of July means he is Cancer. Cancer is a watery sign. They are very friendly and show motherly love to everyone. According to ascendant calculator, an important trait of these natives is their sensitive nature.

He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be film director. You can know him also as film producer. He is recently known as theatrical director.

George Cukor's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: DeWitt Clinton High School.

Detailed informations about his schools

Graduated from DeWitt-Clinton High School, New York City. Subsequently served an 11-year apprenticeship in the theatre, rising from assistant stage manager for a touring company to Broadway stage manager and director.

George Cukor's career

His main focus is to be film director.

Is George Cukor gay ?

He is known to be homosexuality.

How did George Cukor die

He died on on Monday 24th of January 1983 when he was 84 years old at Los Angeles. George Cukors death was caused by heart failure.

Awards and competitions

George Cukor's Awards

In 1968, he accepted the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role on behalf of Katharine Hepburn, who was not present at the ceremony.
He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6738 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

George Cukor's Nominations

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director

What George Cukor has done for a first time

He was rather heavy set when he first began directing. In fact, he looked very much like producer David O. Selznick physically. In later years, he lost weight and much of his hair.

George Cukor's quotes

Give me a good script, and I'll be 100 times better as a director.
You would like to think you're pretty much an original, everything about yourself distinctive and individual. But it is surprising to realize to what extent you echo your family, and how, from childhood, you have been shaped and molded . . .
[on the rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis] It seemed to me that each one coveted what the other possessed. Joan envied Bette's incredible talent, and Bette envied Joan's seductive glamor.
[favorite piece of advice he would give to hyperactive actresses] Don't just do something, stand there!
Margaret Mitchell's only casting suggestion for Gone with the Wind (1939) was for her favorite star to play Rhett: Groucho Marx.
Jack Lemmon is not one of those actors who'll bore you to death discussing acting. He'd rather bore you to death discussing golf.
There's been an awful lot of crap written about Marilyn Monroe, and I don't know, there may be an exact psychiatric term for what was wrong with her but truth to tell, I think she was quite mad.
[on Louise Brooks] A beautiful nothing.
You can always land on your feet if you know where the ground is.
If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.
I don't weep or anything, but there's always some part of me left bloody on the scene I've just directed.
[on Ava Gardner] Ava Gardner's famous temper caused some sticky moments. She's a great trooper, we overcame all that. She's an old friend, with the command and control of the authentic star. Ava's a gent!
[on Ava Gardner] Ava herself was charming. She's a real movie queen, really exciting; lovely looking, too, with marvelous legs. When she crosses the screen, you're bound to follow her.
[1972, on Greta Garbo] Extremely well behaved and disciplined. She was unique--a creature born for the screen. She knew when to quit, she just sensed it. She is much too intelligent to want to try to come back now.
[1972, on Audrey Hepburn] She is a truly romantic creature. She doesn't just profess good manners--she is really well mannered at all times. She is not driven in her career but she gives full value and she is never indifferent.
[on Greta Garbo] Garbo went through a great deal to get a scene right. She worked out every gesture in advance and learned every syllable of dialogue exactly as written. She never improvised and I respected her for that.
[on Robert Taylor, who was directed by him in Camille (1936) and in Her Cardboard Lover (1942)] Robert Taylor was my favorite actor. He was a gentleman. That's rare in Hollywood.
[on Greta Garbo] She is a fascinating actress but she is limited. She must never create situations. She must be thrust into them. The drama comes in how she rides them out.
[on his overlong production of A Star Is Born (1954)] Neither the human mind nor the human ass can stand three hours of concentration.
[on Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)] The second time around, Bette wanted vengeance. It was Elizabeth the First, all over again. A mere apology from Joan wasn't enough. Bette wanted her head.
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.
[on Bette Davis] She is a star, and all stars learn how to cultivate one very important asset early in their career: a very short memory. They remember only what they want to remember.
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.
[on Joan Crawford] Joan may have been preposterous, but she was never cruel.
[Greta Garbo] didn't talk much to Robert Taylor. She was polite but distant. She had to tell herself that he was the ideal young man, and she knew if they became friendly she would learn he was just another nice kid.
[on John Barrymore] Although he was playing a second-rate actor, he had no vanity as such. He even put things in to make himself hammier, more ignorant.
[on Marie Dressler] She acquired a peculiar distinction, a magnificence. She was a law unto herself. She would mug and carry on--which she did in this picture [Dinner at Eight (1933)]--but she knew how to make an entrance with great aplomb, great effect.

George Cukor's body shape

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George Cukor