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George Cukor
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Director Born: July 7, 1899 in New York City, NY Death: January 24, 1983 in Hollywood, CA Biography:A successful stage director in New York by the late 1920s, George Cukor began working in Hollywood as a dialogue director and filling other uncredited crew roles on such films as All Quiet on the Western Front. In 1930, he co-directed his first features: "Grumpy" with "Cyril Gardner", "The Virtuous Sin" with "Louis Gasnier", and The Royal Family of Broadway with Gardner; Cukor had his solo debut the following year, directing "Tallulah Bankhead" in "Tarnished Lady". For the next fifty years, he showed a flair for bringing out the best in actors, particularly women, although that specialty could occassionally work against him, as when he was removed from the production of Gone With the Wind at the insistence of "Clark Gable". But it defined his best work, starting in 1932 with "Katharine Hepburn"'s first film, A Bill of Divorcement. Cukor also directed her idiosyncratic '30s performances in "Little... Full Biography
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