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George Cukor
George Cukor (George Cukor, July 7, 1899-January 24, 1983), was born on July 7, 1899 in New York City , USA, and was an American Jewish film director.
There are many great works in the 30 years from the early 1930s to the 1960s. He is particularly good at dealing with female themes and is able to make the heroine play his best. The most experienced are fashionable and elegant literary themes, and he rarely makes personal statement films.
Early Experience
George became obsessed with theater when he was a teenager; at the age of 18 he found a job as a stage supervisor assistant at a theater in Chicago; three years later, he established his own theater performance company in New York City and has been engaged in stage production. It is said that He specializes in rehearsing dramas that express human feelings and are rich in life philosophy. During this period, he met many well-known actresses.
Performing Experience
George Cukor enters the film industry
In 1929, sound films came out. Studios looked for talents who could shoot sound films. Artists who had been engaged in stage plays entered the film industry in large numbers. Cook entered Paramount Pictures, a company called Paramount Pictures. His first job here was Served as the dialogue director for the film River of Romance (1929). He also acted as a dialogue director for Lewis Milestone’s famous film All Quiet on the Western Front. After co-directing 3 films with others, he independently directed the film Tarnished Lady in 1931, but soon because of legal issues with Paramount. On the dispute, he entered RKO Studios of Raiden China.
RKO Studios Raiden Hua Company: One of the eight major companies in the American film industry in the 1930s. The time and history of the establishment of Raiden Hua Company are different, most of them are: In 1928, the American Raiden Hua Company of the Rockefeller Consortium merged the American Movie Ticket Pre-sale Company (concurrently engaged in film production) and the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Commercial Projection System. become. Since there were originally two companies specializing in the distribution and screening of the new company's components, the new company has a relatively strong force in this area. Since its establishment, the company not only publishes its own films but also long-term releases of Disney and other people's films. Raiden Hua Film Company has only existed for a short time. Howard Hughes bought Raiden Hua Company in 1948 and sold it to General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955. However, it combined STUDIO and the film made in nearly 30 years. It was resold to Desiru Studios in 1957. In the 1960s, the Gulf and Occidental Petroleum Corporation bought the Desiru Production Company. From the first film made in 1929 to the last film in 1957, Raiden Hua Company has produced about 1,500 films, most of which are low-cost entertainment films, especially horror films and thrillers. And Musical Film . But there are a few exceptions, such as D. Wells' "Citizen Kane" (1941), "The Abeson Family" (1942) and A. Alfred Hitchcock 's "Beauty" (1941).
Cukor george 30 - 60 years
He has won a wide reputation in the film industry and is among the top directors. In particular, he won the title of "woman's director" because he is very good at giving play to the acting talents of actresses. His representative works include:
Little Women (1933) "Little Women" was nominated for Best Director and Best Picture Oscar
David Copperfield (1935) "David Copperfield", Oscar nominated for Best Picture
Romeo and Juliet (1936) "Romeo and Juliet", Oscar nominated for Best Picture
Camille (1936) "The Lady of the Camellias" starring Greta Garbo, nominated for Best Actress Oscar
In 1937, Cook was assigned to direct Gone with the Wind "Gone with the Wind". After two years of preparatory work, including training Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland, he had the right to direct the film in the third week before the filming started. Replaced by producer David O. Selznick with Victor Fleming. But during the shooting of Gone with the Wind, Cook and Victor Fleming were actually the co-directors. Objectively speaking, Cook contributed the most to the film. Gone with the Wind received 15 Oscar nominations, and finally won 8 awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Editing, Best Photography, Best Actress, and Best Screenplay.
In 1939, Cook filmed The Women. Not only is this film all female actors, there is not even a single male in all the scenes in the film.
The Philadelphia Story (1940) "Philadelphia" "Philadelphia" starring Screwball comedy starring Katharine Hepburn , won 6 nominations including the Oscar for Best Director, and finally won the Best Screenplay and Best Actor Award (James Stewart).
Gaslight (1944) "Under the Gas Lamp" starring Ingrid Bergman, won 7 Oscar nominations, won 2 awards, Bergma won the best actress award.
A Double Life (1947) "Double Life" was nominated for Best Director Oscar
Born Yesterday (1950) was nominated for the Oscar for best director; nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival;
A Star Is Born (1954) "A Star Is Born", starring Judy Garland, won 6 Oscar nominations
Wild Is the Wind (1957) was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival
My Fair Lady (1964) "My Fair Lady" received 12 Oscar nominations and finally won 8 awards including the Best Director Award. The film also won the Best Film Award of the British Academy of Film Sciences and the Best Film Director Award of the American Golden Globe Awards.
George Cukor after the 70s
In the 1970s, Cook switched to the television industry, and in 1975 his production of Love Among the Ruins won the EMMY Award.
In 1976, he directed the co-production "Blue Bird" The Blue Bird of the Soviet Union and the United States .
Cook spent a good old age in Hollywood. His popularity is very good. Every weekend, his home will always open PARTY, and the guests are celebrities in the film industry and become a scene in Hollywood.
In 1981, he made his last film Rich and Famous.
George Cukor overview
Born in New York City, USA. There are many great works in the 30 years from the early 1930s to the 1960s. He is particularly good at dealing with female themes and is able to make the heroine play his best. The most experienced are fashionable and elegant literary themes, and he rarely makes personal statement films. He turned to Hollywood development from the theater , and served as the dialogue director for Louis Myer Stone's "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1930). He also co-produced "One Hour With You" (1932) with Lubis, which was deeply influenced by him. Influence. He officially became a director in 1932. By 1936, after the advent of "Creating Love", he became one of the first-class directors. Then the masterpieces were released one after another, becoming the masters of literary and artistic films. In 1978, the American Film Institute held a special tribute meeting for him. Before him, only 5 filmmakers received this honor.
Outstanding "woman director" (womans director) and gay director in Hollywood classics. In his career as a director for more than 50 years, he is best known in his early years for adapting classic novels into movies many times, and his subsequent works include thrillers, crazy romantic comedies, and even musicals. Cook is called a "female director" because he has put eight leading actresses in his films as best actress nominations, and he himself has been nominated for best director five times.
His works include David Copperfield (1935), The Lady of the Camellias (1937), Holiday (1938, starring Katharine Hepburn and Calle Glenn), Philadelphia (1940), Under the Gas Lamp (1944), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1960), Adam's Rib (1949), My Fair Lady (1964), etc.
Character Evaluation
I like fashionable and elegant literary themes; I am also good at various types of works: such as suspense thriller, Screwball comedy , Musical Film, etc. The Musical Film directed by Cukor has a strong story.
Cook is known as a "female director". Most of his films tell stories of women; the films he shoots often become representative works of female stars. Greta Garbo , Katharine Houghton Hepburn , Joan Crawford , Vivian Mary Hartley , Ingrid Bergman , Judy Garland , Audrey Hepburn , Norma Shearer, these first-class female stars have had perfect cooperation with Cook. He has put eight leading actresses in his films into the Oscar nominations for best actresses. Cook is good at guiding actresses’ performances. He once talked about Garbo’s " The Lady of the Camellias " and found that although there are many "quirks" in her acting, as long as you understand the reasons behind them and use them to guide them, you can get Perfect results. The understanding of Garbo can be said to be the main reason for the success of the film. Cook believed in Garbo's instincts and tried to let her play freely . Many of the memorable performances in "The Lady of the Camellias" were actually Garbo's ideas. In his films, the personality of the actress is fully utilized, and each actor seems to be acting himself. Audrey Hepburn's innocence and naughty, Vivian Mary Hartley's scheming and independence, Katharine Houghton Hepburn's revealing and cleverness, Ingrid Bergman's thoughts...
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