Known for his ability to elicit great performances, American film director George Cukor (1899-1983) was a stylistic craftsman who made elegant comedies and dramas from the 1930s through the 1960s. He won an Academy Award in 1964 for directing the...

An American film director whose career spanned over fifty years, Cukor was particularly adept at female-centered melodrama (Little Women, 1933; The Women, 1939), romantic comedy (The Philadelphia Story, 1940; Adam's Rib, 1949), and musicals (A...

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director. Cukor's career flourished at RKO Studios where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932),...

Emilio Ruiz del Rio, the award-winning Spanish set decorator and visual and special effects wizard who worked on such films as "Dr. Zhivago," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Pan's Labyrinth," has died, a hospital official said Sunday. He was 84.Ruiz del Rio died of respiratory failure...

A new biography of Ingrid Bergman casts fresh light on the making of the 1942 classic "Casablanca," in which none of its three stars wanted to appear. They never suspected that their roles would become the best-remembered of their careers.In the newly published "Ingrid," Charlotte...

The Roundabout productions currently on offer are a revival at the American Airlines Theatre of John van Druten’s inconsequential 1943 light comedy Old Acquaintance; and at the Laura Pels, Beyond Glory, Stephen Lang’s tribute to U.S. war heroes who were awarded the Medal of Honor,...

The parodists have it wrong. They’ve turned the phrase most identified with Greta Garbo—“I want to be alone”—into something that might have issued from Bela Lugosi. Garbo did not pronounce the “w” as a “v” (she says “want,” not “vant”); she did not declaim those...