The reviews were the best of Cukor's career, but Warner executives, concerned the running time would limit the number of daily showings, made drastic cuts without Cukor, who had departed for India to scout locations for Bhowani Junction.

Although several reviews were critical of the film – Pauline Kael said it " staggers along " and Stanley Kauffmann thought Cukor's direction was like " a rich gravy poured over everything, not remotely as delicately rich as in the Asquith-Howard 1937 Pygmalion " — the film was a box office hit which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, the Golden Globe Award for Best Director, and the Directors Guild of America Award after having been nominated for each several times.

The most notable theatrical releases were George Cukor's multi-Oscar-nominated 1936 production, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version, and Baz Luhrmann's 1996 MTV-inspired Romeo + Juliet.

Among her films at this time were Desire Under the Elms with Anthony Perkins, based upon the Eugene O ' Neill play ; Houseboat, a romantic comedy co-starring Cary Grant ; and George Cukor's Heller in Pink Tights, in which she appeared as a blonde for the first time.

* Scenes from Rich and Famous ( 1981 ), George Cukor's final film, were shot on Lincoln Place, and show the Madison Theatre and the train station as backdrops.

Cukor's dismissal from Wind freed him to direct The Women ( 1939 ), notable for its all-female cast, followed by The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), starring Katharine Hepburn.

During this era, Cukor forged an alliance with screenwriters Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon, who had met in Cukor's home in 1939 and married three years later.

Several weeks before principal photography began, the cast and crew gathered for wardrobe tests on a set that was a fully lit recreation of George Cukor's Beverly Hills home.

Production designer Gene Allen had sent a crew of men to Cukor's home at 9166 Cordell Drive to photograph the house and pool areas of the estate.

At first the two men worked well together, but two weeks into filming Lubitsch began arriving on the set on a regular basis, and he soon began directing scenes with Cukor's consent.

However, despite rumors about Gable being uncomfortable with Cukor on the set, nothing in the internal memos of David O. Selznick indicates or suggests that Clark Gable played any role in Cukor's dismissal from the film.

Rather, they show Selznick's mounting dissatisfaction with Cukor's slow pace and quality of work.

That fall Towers married and his relationship with Cukor evolved into one of father and son, and for the remainder of Cukor's life the two remained very close.

Shearer and Leslie Howard, with a combined age over 75, played the teenage lovers in George Cukor's MGM 1936 film version.

However, Crawford made a comeback with her role as home-wrecker Crystal Allen in director George Cukor's The Women in 1939.

Janet Maslin of the New York Times called it Almodóvar's " best film by far ," noting he " presents this womanly melodrama with an empathy to recall George Cukor's and an eye-dampening intensity to out-Sirk Douglas Sirk.

Working in films ( in mostly bit roles ) through the 1940s, Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as the victim of insane actor Ronald Colman in George Cukor's A Double Life, in 1947.

George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett ( 1935 ) marked his first appearance in a Hollywood film, as Katharine Hepburn's father ;-his final British film, as a capitalist trying to take over a family brewery in Cheer Boys Cheer ( 1939 ) is credited with being the first authentic Ealing comedy.

His military experience was limited ; Germany surrendered in early November, and Cukor's duty ended after only two months.

Upon the film's completion, Lubitsch approached Paramount general manager B. P. Schulberg and threatened to leave the studio if Cukor's name wasn't removed from the credits.

One of Cukor's first ingenues was actress Katharine Hepburn, who debuted in A Bill of Divorcement and whose looks and personality left RKO officials at a loss as to how to use her.

Stewart Granger was the front runner for a period of time, but he backed out when he was unable to adjust to Cukor's habit of acting out scenes as a form of direction.

The following year, he received an Oscar nomination for his part in George Cukor's Wild Is the Wind.

Her subsequent part as the doomed courtesan opposite Robert Taylor in George Cukor's Camille ( 1936 ) earned her a third Academy Award nomination.

With George Cukor's Two-Faced Woman ( 1941 ), MGM attempted to capitalize on Garbo's success as a comedienne by casting her in a romantic comedy which sought to portray her as an ordinary girl.

She auditioned for George Cukor's stock theater company, and although he was not very impressed, he gave Davis her first paid acting assignment anyway — a one-week stint playing the part of a chorus girl in the play Broadway.

Ann was entranced with the view, as were her husband and friends.

The Hetman did have friends, but they were mostly outside the newspaper profession.

The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

Besides being political allies, they were also friends.

Gorton and ten of his friends were thrown in jail.

They were strays of every kind -- university students and journalists, Village hangers-on and barflies, taxi drivers and editors and unknown poets, as well as friends like Elinor Wylie and William Rose Benet, the Van Dorens and Nathan, Rebecca West and Hugh Walpole and Osbert Sitwell, Laurence Stallings, Lewis Browne, William Seabrook, Arthur Hopkins, the Woodwards.

He writes, `` Most of my friends and I were Jewish ; ;

Within themselves, just as people, my friends were often tortured and unappeasably bitter about being the offspring of this unhappily unique-ingrown-screwedup breed ; ;

His friends were numerous and their ties to him were strong.

Two friends were talking.

Both of them were my friends.

I know now why our Japanese friends were surprised when they walked into our bathroom.

Now Acey and his friends were returning to seek him out.

`` I never knew there were such neighbors and friends around me and my family.

10% of them worried about their friends, neighbors, and relatives, most of whom were quite capable of taking care of themselves.

His voice had sharp edges, as though he knew very well Lucy and he were not friends at the moment.

In his moments of worst agony, Martin imagined what his friends were saying.

He gave water to both friends and foes who were wounded on the battlefield.

She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

He lived in the most frugal style alike at home and in the field, and though his campaigns were undertaken largely to secure booty, he was content to enrich the state and his friends and to return as poor as he had set forth.

Many of the men involved with Johnson's acquittal committee were friends of Secretary William Seward, Johnson's strongest ally on his Presidential Cabinet.

*" When Johnny Comes Marching Home " ( sometimes " When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again ") is a popular song of the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.