Selznick had already been unhappy with Cukor (" a very expensive luxury ") for not being more receptive to directing other Selznick assignments, even though Cukor had remained on salary since early 1937 ; and in a confidential memo written in September 1938, four months before principal photography began, Selznick flirted with the idea of replacing him with Victor Fleming.

Selznick's friendship with Cukor had crumbled slightly when the director refused other assignments, including A Star is Born ( 1937 ) and Intermezzo ( 1939 ).

Given that Gable and Cukor had worked together before, in Manhattan Melodrama and Gable had no objection to working with him then, and given Selznick's desperation to get Gable for Rhett Butler, if Gable had any objections to Cukor, certainly they would have been expressed before he signed his contract for the film.

Yet, writer Gore Vidal, in his autobiography Point to Point Navigation, recounted that Gable demanded that Cukor be fired off Wind because, according to Cukor, the young Gable had been a male hustler and Cukor had been one of his johns.

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.

In March 1954, a rough cut still missing several musical numbers was assembled, and Cukor had mixed feelings about it.

When the last scene finally was filmed in the early morning hours of July 28, 1954, Cukor already had departed the production and was unwinding in Europe.

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.

At its final running time of 154 minutes, the film had lost musical numbers and crucial dramatic scenes, and Cukor called it " very painful.

The production came to a halt when Cukor had filmed every scene not involving Monroe and the actress remained unavailable.

George Cukor She had a talent that few actresses or actors possess.

that Cukor declined.

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?

Cukor was hired to direct Gone with the Wind by Selznick in 1936, even before the book was published.

Four years after the film was released, Selznick approached Cukor and asked him to direct A Star Is Born.

George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983 ) was an American film director.

Cukor was then assigned to One Hour With You ( 1932 ), an operetta with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, when original director Ernst Lubitsch opted to concentrate on producing the film instead.

Cukor favored Hepburn for the role, but Selznick, concerned about her reputation as ' box office poison ', would not consider her without a screen test, and the actress refused to film one.

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.

In December 1952, Cukor was approached by Sid Luft, who proposed the director helm a musical remake of the 1937 film A Star is Born with his then-wife Judy Garland in the lead role.

In 1976, Cukor was awarded the George Eastman Award, given by George Eastman House for distinguished contribution to the art of film.

Gordon and Kanin received Academy Awards nominations for both of those screenplays, as well as for that of a prior film, A Double Life ( 1947 ), which was also directed by Cukor.

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* A Star Is Born ( 1954 film ), starring Judy Garland and James Mason, directed by George Cukor

* What Price Hollywood ?, a 1932 film with similarities to the 1937 & later films, also directed by George Cukor

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The cast attempted to celebrate when Marilyn arrived ; however Cukor insisted they wait until 6 pm, the end of the working day because he wanted to get a " full day's work out of her ".

Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of New York City, the younger child and only son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants Victor, an assistant district attorney, and Helen Ilona ( née Gross ) Cukor.

Therefore, the Cukor family, subscribing to the norm of their country of origin, was not a Yiddish speaking household.

The family was not particularly religious, pork was a staple on the dinner table, and when he started attending temple as a boy, Cukor learned Hebrew phonetically, with no real understanding of the meaning of the words or what they represented.

As a teenager, Cukor frequently was taken to the New York Hippodrome by his uncle.

Following his graduation in 1917, Cukor was expected to follow in his father's footsteps and pursue a career in law.

Cukor later recalled, " Her talent was apparent, but she did buck at direction.

" For the next several decades, Davis claimed she was fired, and although Cukor never understood why she placed so much importance on an incident he considered so minor, he never worked with her again.

" I think the biggest black mark against our management to date is the Cukor situation and we can no longer be sentimental about it .... We are a business concern and not patrons of the arts ..." Cukor was relieved of his duties, but he continued to work with Leigh and De Havilland off the set.

The remainder of the decade was a series of hits and misses for Cukor.

Cukor wanted Cary Grant for the male lead and went so far as to read the entire script with him, but Grant, while agreeing it was the role of a lifetime, steadfastly refused to do it, and Cukor never forgave him.

As the months passed, Cukor was forced to deal not only with constant script changes but a very unstable leading lady, who was plagued by chemical and alcohol dependencies, extreme weight fluctuations, and real and imagined illnesses.