The Boston Globe, June 3rd, 1994
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 rivals as a director of actresses. He discovered Katharine Hepburn and starred her repeatedly. Constance Bennett, Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Garland, Judy Holliday, Angela Lansbury, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn and Candice Bergen all appreciated him. Ina Claire and Frances Goldwyn -- actresses he knew from his theatrical beginnings in the East -- ...
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