Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936). He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind (1939), but went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Anna Karina, Remember
2020
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Major actress of the New Wave, Anna Karina is bound to the great renewal of cinema in the 1960s. Her companion in life, Dennis Berry revisits the stor...

Sid & Judy
2019
as Self (archive footage)
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, n...

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
2018
as Self (archive footage)
A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer t...

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Cary Grant: A Class Apart
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary that explores the life and career of leading man Cary Grant through film clips and interviews. Produced as S18E03 of the long running seri...

Judy Garland: By Myself
2004
as Self (archive footage)
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life pre...
Cole Porter in Hollywood: Ça c'est l'amour
2003
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary short subject for DVD gives a look at the making of Cole Porter's MGM classic, "Les Girls". Hosted by Finnish film legend and star of...

On Cukor
2000
as Self (archive footage)
Widely thought of as “a woman’s director,” legendary film director George Cukor is profiled with the use of film clips and interviews with his friends...

More Loverly Than Ever: The Making of 'My Fair Lady'
1995
as Self (archive sound)
This 30th anniversary documentary treats film fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of "My Fair Lady," the classic musical about a poor young...

Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess
1994
as Self (archive footage)
An account of the life and career of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood's most famous and glamorous movie stars.

Marilyn: Something's Got to Give
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary on Marilyn Monroe's final days and the production of "Something Got to Give."

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic
1990
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about the making of the 1939 MGM classic film The Wizard of Oz. Includes interviews of cast and crew members, their families and fans of t...

The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind
1988
as Self (archive footage)
This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary about James Stewart's long career as an actor and positive personal life.

Rich and Famous
1981
Director
Two literary women compete for 20 years: one writes for the critics; the other one, to get rich.

The Corn Is Green
1979
Director
A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes...

The Blue Bird
1976
Director
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're ...

Arkadiy Raykin
1975
as Self
There was no Soviet actor who could claim a greater popularity than Raikin. He was allowed the impossible: to be a satirist. Even during the height of...

Love Among the Ruins
1975
Director
An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed bar...
The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor
1973
as Self
In the series of documentaries directed by Richard Schickel following classic film directors, this episode interviews the creative mind behind "My Fai...

Travels with My Aunt
1972
Director
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him alon...

Garbo
1969
as Self
Joan Crawford narrates this documentary about the career of Greta Garbo.

Justine
1969
Director
In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, ...

My Fair Lady
1964
Director
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

The Chapman Report
1962
Director
A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.

Something's Got to Give
1962
Director
Remake of "My Favorite Wife," unfinished because of star Marilyn Monroe's firing, rehiring, and sudden August 1962 death.

Hollywood: The Selznick Years
1961
as Self (uncredited)
Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t...

Let's Make Love
1960
Director
When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order ...

Song Without End
1960
Director
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.

Heller in Pink Tights
1960
Director
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lad...

Hot Spell
1958
Director
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve ...

Wild Is the Wind
1957
Director
A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his ...

Les Girls
1957
Director
After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Ange...

Bhowani Junction
1956
Director
Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.

A Star Is Born
1954
Director
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

It Should Happen to You
1954
Director
Gladys Glover has just lost her modeling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at firs...

The Actress
1953
Director
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.

Pat and Mike
1952
Director
Pat Pemberton is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering fiancé is around. The ladies golf championship is in her reach until she gets fluste...

The Marrying Kind
1952
Director
Florence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good tim...

The Model and the Marriage Broker
1951
Director
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.

Born Yesterday
1950
Director
Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-...

A Life of Her Own
1950
Director
A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man.

Adam's Rib
1949
Director
A woman's attempted murder of her uncaring husband results in everyday quarrels in the lives of Adam and Amanda, a pair of happily married lawyers who...

Edward, My Son
1949
Director
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.

A Double Life
1947
Director
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

Desire Me
1947
Director
A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

Winged Victory
1944
Director
Pinky Scariano, Allan Ross, and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with ...

Gaslight
1944
Director
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.

Keeper of the Flame
1943
Director
Famed reporter Stephen O'Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.

Her Cardboard Lover
1942
Director
A flirt tries to make her fiancée jealous by hiring a gigolo.

Two-Faced Woman
1941
Director
A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband.

A Woman's Face
1941
Director
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

The Philadelphia Story
1940
Director
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

Susan and God
1940
Director
A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

The Women
1939
Director
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.

Zaza
1938
Director
A seductive music hall star falls in love with a married aristocrat.

Holiday
1938
Director
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionair...

I Met My Love Again
1938
Director
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows...

The Prisoner of Zenda
1937
Co-Director
A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king ...

Camille
1936
Director
Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert t...

Romeo and Juliet
1936
Director
Young love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families.

Sylvia Scarlett
1935
Director
When her father decides to flee to England, young Sylvia Scarlett must become Sylvester Scarlett and protect her father every step of the way, with th...

No More Ladies
1935
Director
A society girl tries to reform her playboy husband by making him jealous.

David Copperfield
1935
Director
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

Dinner at Eight
1933
Director
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of t...

Little Women
1933
Director
Four sisters come of age during the American Civil War. With their father away fighting, the family, headed by their mother, experiences tribulations,...

Our Betters
1933
Director
Soon after being wed, American heiress Lady Pearl Grayston realizes her husband has married her for her money and is keeping a mistress. The two maint...

Rockabye
1932
Director
A Broadway actress with a problematic past falls hard for the author of her new play.

A Bill of Divorcement
1932
Director
A World War I veteran returns home after fifteen years in an asylum and finds that everything has changed — his daughter is grown and about to marry.

What Price Hollywood?
1932
Director
Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her restaura...

One Hour with You
1932
Co-Director, Dialogue Coach
Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist h...

Girls About Town
1931
Director
A dynamic duo in silk and ermine entertain hick businessmen looking for a good time while in Manhattan.

Tarnished Lady
1931
Director
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves wri...

The Royal Family of Broadway
1930
Director
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a br...

The Virtuous Sin
1930
Director
Marya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.

Grumpy
1930
Director
An exhaustingly cantankerous old man solves a jewel robbery.
The Duet with Myself
1930
Director
Revue legend Ernst Rolf sings a duet with himself in this early "music video".

The River of Romance
1929
Dialogue Coach
Mississippi, 1830's. Tom Rumsford comes back to Magnolia Landing, his parents'estate. Having been brought up in the North by Quaker relatives, he just...