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

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.

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

" 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.

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.

Cukor had declined to direct the earlier film because it was too similar to his 1932 What Price Hollywood ?, but the opportunity to direct his first Technicolor film, first musical, and work with screenwriter Moss Hart and especially Garland appealed to him, and he accepted.

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.

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.

Adolph Zukor ( January 7, 1873 – June 10, 1976 ), born Adolph Cukor, was a Hungarian film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.

* Directors: Michael Curtiz ( born Mihaly Kertész ): 6 nominations / 2 wins ( Casablanca ), King Vidor 5 nominations plus one Honorary and George Cukor 5 nominations / one win My Fair Lady.

Cukor obtained a job as an assistant stage manager and bit player with a touring production of The Better ' Ole, a popular British musical based on Old Bill, a cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather.

He filmed the cave scene for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ( 1938 ) and, following the firing of its original director Richard Thorpe, Cukor spent a week on the set of The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ).

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.

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.

Over the course of seven years, the trio collaborated on seven films, including A Double Life ( 1947 ) starring Ronald Colman, Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), The Marrying Kind ( 1952 ), and It Should Happen to You ( 1954 ), all starring another Cukor favorite, Judy Holliday, who won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Born Yesterday.

It was an open secret in Hollywood that Cukor was homosexual, although he was discreet about his sexual orientation and " never carried it as a pin on his lapel ", as producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz put it.

Cukor died of a heart attack on January 24, 1983, and was interred in an unmarked grave at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

She and Olivia de Havilland secretly met with Cukor at night and on weekends for his advice about how they should play their parts.

George Cukor commented that Leigh was a " consummate actress, hampered by beauty ", and Laurence Olivier said that critics should " give her credit for being an actress and not go on forever letting their judgments be distorted by her great beauty.

Another memorial service, organized by George Cukor, was held on June 24 in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California.

* Gaslight ( 1944 film ), directed by George Cukor, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and Angela Lansbury, based on the play

Possibly to downplay Capra's gaffe, Rogers then called third nominee George Cukor to join the two Franks on stage.

George Cukor directed her in Young Love, and the light comedy found success with New York audiences as well as those on the road.

Loos was apprehensive, but Cukor insisted she do the changes on set, amongst his all-star bevy of leading ladies.

His many television credits include Tammy, McHale's Navy, Ironside, I Dream of Jeannie, That Girl, Green Acres, The Monkees, Batman, The Odd Couple, Bonanza, Happy Days, All in the Family, Murphy Brown, L. A. Law, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Murder, She Wrote, Little House on the Prairie, Love, American Style, Adam-12, F Troop and the made-for-TV movie The Scarlett O ' Hara War, in which he portrayed famed film director George Cukor.

* Justine ( 1969 film ), a 1969 film by George Cukor and Joseph Strick, based on Durrell's novel

* A Double Life ( movie tie-in ) ( Century Book Publications, 1947 ) Based on the screenplay by Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon for the George Cukor movie starring Ronald Colman.

American filmmakers George Cukor and David O. Selznick saw him on a 1934 scouting trip to London, and chose him for the young title role in their MGM film David Copperfield ( 1935 ).

The film was directed by George Cukor, and was shot partly on location in Lahore, Pakistan.

When Hollywood began to recruit New York theater talent for sound films, Cukor immediately answered the call.

The first preview the following month ran 210 minutes and, despite ecstatic feedback from the audience, Cukor and editor Folmar Blangsted trimmed it to 182 minutes for its New York premiere in October.

Mourdant Hall of the New York Times observed, " The easy-going fashion in which George Cukor, the director, has set forth the beguiling incidents in pictorial form is so welcome after the stereotyped tales with stuffed shirts.

The film was directed by George Cukor and filmed on location in New York City.