Cukor, George (1899-1983)
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 com...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 be...
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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, Be...
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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. Ga...
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David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada, from a screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, is loosely based on Lauren Weisberger’s best-selling roman à clef about her demeaning experiences w...
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David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada, from a screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, is loosely based on Lauren Weisberger’s best-selling roman à clef about her demeaning experiences w...
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By all accounts—most notably the amusingly disenchanted commentaries by Caryn James, David Carr and Paula Schwartz in The New York Times—this year’s Oscars will be considerably le...
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Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, from a screenplay by Mr. Nolan and David S. Goyer, based on a story by Mr. Goyer and the Batman characters created by Bob Kane and published by DC Comics, plays o...
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Cukor, George (1899-1983)
George Cukor
Film set director Ruiz del Rio dies
