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),...

GEORGE CUKOR Master of Elegance By Emanuel Levy Morrow, 447 pp., $25 Hollywood likes its icons uncomplicated. Thus, John Ford is known as the men's director. And George Cukor shall forever be labeled the women's director. Certainly, he had few...

ROBERT EMMET LONG, ED. (U. PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI; 229 PGS.; $46, $18) Practically everything ever written about the venerable George Cukor has focused on his facility with style, his ability to elicit elegant turns from his actors, his enthusiasm for the...

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...