Posted on July 7, 2017July 6, 2017
by Aurora

Friday Foto Follies: George Cukor

George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983)

“I don’t weep or anything, but there’s always some part of me left bloody on the scene I’ve just directed.”

1949

With THE WOMEN

With Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr on set of Edward, My Son 1949

1049

With Norma Shearer, and Rosalind Russell on a lunch break on the set of The Women

With Maggie Smith on set of Travels with my Aunt 1972

With Louis B. Mayer and Paulette Goddard

1969

With Lana Turner while filming A Life of Her Own 1950

1951

With Judy on set of A Star is Born

With Judy Holiday on set of The Marrying Kind 1952

1938

With Joanie on set of Susan and God

With Jane Fonda and Efrem Zimbalist Jr

1942

With Holden and Holiday on set of Born Yesterday

With his most frequent leading lady, Katharine Hepburn

With Hepburn and Jack Warner at My Fair Lady premiere

With Garbo

With Gable on set of GWTW

With Cary Grant behind the scenes of THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

1941

With Dinner at Eight cast

with Candice Bergen and Jacqueline Bisset, stars of his final film, Rich and Famous 1981

With Ava Gardner during filming of The Blue Bird

With Audrey on set of My Fair Lady

What Price Hollywood 1932

Thoughtful Cukor

1954

talking to Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand in between scenes from Let's Make Love 1960

Smiling in 1946

Romeo and Juliet 1936

Rockabye 1932

Relaxed

On the set of Gaslight 1944

1953

Rehearsing with Lee Remick in 1962

on the set of Camille -1936 -with Greta Garbo and Robert Taylor

On set of Justine 1969

On set of A DOUBLE LIFE with writers Gordon and Kanin and actor Ronald Colman

Olivier, Hepburn and Cukor

1944

On a stroll with Kate

Making Camille 1936

Kate Hepburn snoozes on set of Pat and Mike dir George Cukor goes over a scene with Spencer Tracy and Aldo Ray

Joseph Cotten, George Cukor and Ingrid Bergman on the set of Gaslight, 1944

1931

Joan Crawford, George Cukor & Norma Shearer in a watermelon eating contest.

Interviewing actresses to play Scarlett O'Hara

George Cukor

Her Cardboard Lover 1942

Hepburn and Cukor

George Cukor

George Cukor, Rosalind Russell and Hedda Hopper on the set of The Women, 1939

1935 Copperfield

George Cukor directing Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn in 1964's My Fair Lady

Friends

1932

Elder statesman

Edmund Goulding, Jean Harlow, Edmund Lowe, George Cukor

Director George Cukor

Director George Cukor with Joan Crawford and Melvyn Douglas on the set of A Woman's Face

Directing The Women

Directing The Philadelphia Story

Directing Marilyn in Let's Make Love 1960

Directing Greer Garson in DESIRE ME 1947

David O. Selznick, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, and George Cukor

Directing GWTW

1957

1935

Cukor interviewing actresses to play Scarlett O'Hara in GWTW

Celebrating with Rosamond Pinchot

1933

c. 1955

Best Director, Cukor - for My Fair Lady - with presenter, Joan Crawford

At home in 1973

Astaire and Cukor 1974

A master among masters

3 thoughts

Vienna says:

July 7, 2017 at 3:07 am

What a wonderful pictorial tribute to this great director.

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empressnorma says:

July 9, 2017 at 11:59 pm

I’m really enjoying your blog. One of my favorite directors of all time. The Women! Oh, The Women, what a great picture. Tara

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1. Aurora says:
  
  July 10, 2017 at 7:54 am
  
  Thanks so much!
  
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