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George Cukor
George Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director who mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed a string of impressive films including What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932),...
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One Hour with You
One Hour with You is a 1932 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Samson Raphaelson and his assistant Sam Bellas from the Lothar Schmidt play Only a Dream, and was directed by George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch.
The...
Initial release date:
- 1932
Runtime:
- 80 min (48 hs )
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Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (usually shortened to David Copperfield) is a 1935 film based upon the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield. Although quite a few characters and...
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- Jan 18, 1935
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- 130 min (78 hs )
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The Philadelphia Story
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on a Broadway play of the same name by Philip Barry, with screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart and an...
Initial release date:
- 1940
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Runtime:
- 112 min (67.2 hs )
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Adam's Rib
Adam's Rib is a 1949 film written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. It stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and features Judy Holliday in her first substantial film role. The music was composed by Miklós Rózsa,...
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- 1949
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Runtime:
- 101 min (60.6 hs )
The Royal Family of Broadway
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) is a comedy film, directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner, and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz and Gertrude Purcell from the play The Royal Family by Edna...
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- 1930
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Runtime:
- 82 min (49 hs )
A Double Life
A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso. It was directed by George Cukor and written for the screen by Ruth Gordon...
Initial release date:
- Dec 25, 1947
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Runtime:
- 104 min (62.4 hs )
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Lust for Life
Lust for Life (1956) is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin.
It was directed by Vincente Minnelli and produced by John Houseman. The film...
Initial release date:
- Sep 17, 1956
Runtime:
- 122 min (73.2 hs )
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Wild Is the Wind
Wild Is the Wind is a 1957 film which tells the story of a rancher who marries his Italian sister-in-law after the passing of his wife, but she falls in love with his young ranch-hand. It stars Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn and Anthony Franciosa.
The...
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- 1957
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Edward, My Son
Edward, My Son is a 1949 American/British drama film directed by George Cukor that stars Spencer Tracy and Deborah Kerr. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on the play by Noel Langley and Robert Morley.
Canadian Arnold Boult and his...
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- Mar 1, 1949
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Runtime:
- 112 min (67.2 hs )
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Travels with My Aunt
Travels with My Aunt (1969) is a novel written by English author Graham Greene.
The novel follows the travels of Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, and his eccentric Aunt Augusta as they find their way across Europe, and eventually even further...
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- 1972
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings. The film stars Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shearer as Juliet. Other cast members included John Barrymore as...
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- Aug 20, 1936
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- 125 min (75 hs )
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The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical/fantasy film directed mainly by Victor Fleming from a script by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, and others and based on the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank...
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- 1939
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- 101 min (60.6 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 2,777,000 (US$)
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The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind (1952) is a film directed by George Cukor, starring Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday. Other cast members include John Alexander, Charles Bronson, Peggy Cass, Barry Curtis, Tom Farrell, Frank Ferguson, Ruth Gordon (who co-wrote the...
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- Feb 1952
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Runtime:
- 92 min (55 hs )
Love Among the Ruins
Love Among the Ruins is a 1975 television film (1975) directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier.
Set in Edwardian England, Love Among the Ruins tells the story of Jessica Medlicott (Hepburn), an aging grande...
Initial release date:
- Mar 6, 1975
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Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
A Bill of Divorcement
A Bill of Divorcement is a British play written by Clemence Dane that debuted in 1921 in London. Dane wrote it as a reaction to a law passed in Britain in the early 1920s that allowed insanity as grounds for a woman divorcing her husband.
It was...
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- 70 min (42 hs )
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Something's Got to Give
Something's Got to Give is an unfinished feature film made in 1962, directed by George Cukor and starring Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin and Cyd Charisse. A remake of My Favorite Wife (1940), a screwball comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne, it...
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- 1962
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Runtime:
- 37 min (22 hs )
Sylvia Scarlett
Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous...
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- 1935
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- 95 min (57 hs )
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Born Yesterday
Born Yesterday is a 1950 film based on the play of the same name by Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contributions from Kanin.
A corrupt tycoon brings his showgirl mistress...
Initial release date:
- Dec 26, 1950
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Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
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Little Women
Little Women is a 1933 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman is based on the classic novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcott. This is the third screen adaptation of the book, following...
Initial release date:
- Nov 16, 1933
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Runtime:
- 117 min (70.2 hs )
It Should Happen to You
It Should Happen to You is a 1954 comedy film starring Judy Holliday, notable as the first screen appearance of Jack Lemmon, who was then an aspiring young actor. The film was directed by George Cukor. Garson Kanin originally intended the script as...
Initial release date:
- Jan 15, 1954
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- 86 min (52 hs )
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Gaslight
Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in Great Britain, had been made a mere four years earlier. This 1944 version of the story was...
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- 1944
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Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
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What Price Hollywood?
What Price Hollywood? is a 1932 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gene Fowler, Rowland Brown, Ben Markson, and Jane Murfin is based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns.
Brown Derby waitress Mary Evans is an aspiring...
Initial release date:
- Jun 24, 1932
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Runtime:
- 88 min (53 hs )
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Pat and Mike
Pat and Mike is a 1952 comedy starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The movie was directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib.
Pat Pemberton (Hepburn) is a brilliant athlete, except when her domineering...
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- 1952
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Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The epic film, set in the American South in and around the time of...
Initial release date:
- 1939
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Runtime:
- 222 min (133 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 3,900,000 (US$)
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Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight is a Pre-Code 1933 comedy of manners/drama produced by MGM Studios. The film was adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. Produced by David O. Selznick, it...
Initial release date:
- Aug 29, 1933
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Runtime:
- 113 min (67.8 hs )
Estimated budget:
- 435,000 (US$)
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A Star Is Born
A Star Is Born is a 1954 American musical film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay written by Moss Hart was an adaptation of the original 1937 film, which was based on the original screenplay by Robert Carson, Dorothy Parker, and Alan Campbell....
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- 1954
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Holiday
Holiday is a 1938 film directed by George Cukor, a remake of the 1930 film of the same name — a romantic comedy which tells the story of a man who has risen from humble beginnings only to be torn between his free-thinking lifestyle and the tradition...
Initial release date:
- Jun 15, 1938
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Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
The Blue Bird
The Blue Bird is a 1976 American/Soviet fantasy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Hugh Whitemore, Alfred Hayes, and Aleksei Kapler is based L'Oiseau bleu by Maurice Maeterlinck. It was the fifth screen adaptation of the play,...
Initial release date:
- Apr 5, 1976
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Runtime:
- 95 min (57 hs )
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My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based on the film adaptation of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The ending and the ballroom scene are from the 1938 film Pygmalion...
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- 1964
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Runtime:
- 170 min (102 hs )
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Keeper of the Flame
Keeper of the Flame (1943) is a dramatic film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Hepburn plays the widow of a famous civic leader who, prior to his death, had secretly planned a coup d'état against the...
Initial release date:
- Dec 1942
Runtime:
- 100 min (60 hs )
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Let's Make Love
Let's Make Love (1960) is a comedy musical film made by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Jerry Wald from a screenplay by Norman Krasna, Hal Kanter and Arthur Miller. It starred Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand and Tony...
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- 1960
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Runtime:
- 119 min (71.4 hs )
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I'll Be Seeing You
I'll Be Seeing You is a 1944 drama film made by Selznick International Pictures, Dore Schary Productions and Vanguard Pictures and distributed by United Artists. It was directed by William Dieterle and produced by Dore Schary with David O. Selznick...
Initial release date:
- 1944
Runtime:
- 85 min (51 hs )
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Les Girls
Les Girls, also known as Cole Porter's Les Girls, is a 1957 comedy film musical made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor, produced by Sol C. Siegel with Saul Chaplin as associate producer from a screenplay by John Patrick based on a story by...
Initial release date:
- Oct 3, 1957
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Runtime:
- 114 min (68.4 hs )
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Song Without End
Song Without End, subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt (1960) is a biographical film romance made by Columbia Pictures. It was directed by Charles Vidor, who died during the shooting of the picture and was replaced by George Cukor. It was produced by...
Initial release date:
- Aug 11, 1960
Runtime:
- 141 min (84.6 hs )
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Rich And Famous
Rich and Famous is a 1981 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Gerald Ayres is based on the 1941 play Old Acquaintance by John Van Druten, which was filmed with Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins in 1943 under its original...
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- 117 min (70.2 hs )
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Heller In Pink Tights
Heller In Pink Tights is a 1960 western film adapted from Louis L'Amour's novel, Heller with a Gun. It stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn and was directed by George Cukor. The movie is noted for its lavishly ornate costumes by Edith Head and its...
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Camille
Camille is a 1936 American romantic drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Marion. The picture is based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame...
Initial release date:
- 1936
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Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
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Susan and God
Susan and God (1940) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer feature film starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March in a story about a matron who finds religion. The screenplay by Anita Loos was based upon a 1937 play by Rachel Crothers. The film was directed by...
Initial release date:
- Jun 7, 1940
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- 117 min (70.2 hs )
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Two-Faced Woman
Two-Faced Woman (1941) is a romantic comedy film made by MGM. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Gottfried Reinhardt from a screenplay by S. N. Behrman, Salka Viertel and George Oppenheimer, based on a play by Ludwig Fulda. The music...
Initial release date:
- Nov 1941
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Runtime:
- 90 min (54 hs )
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The Women
The Women is a 1939 film directed by George Cukor. The film is based on Claire Boothe Luce's play of the same name, and was adapted for the screen by Anita Loos and Jane Murfin, who toned down the innuendo for a movie audience. One of the great...
Initial release date:
- Sep 1, 1939
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Runtime:
- 133 min (79.8 hs )
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Bhowani Junction
Bhowani Junction is a 1956 film adaptation of the 1952 novel Bhowani Junction by John Masters made by MGM. The film was directed by George Cukor and produced by Pandro S. Berman from a screenplay by Sonya Levien and Ivan Moffat.
The film stars Ava...
Initial release date:
- 1956
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Runtime:
- 110 min (66 hs )
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The Actress
The Actress (1953) is a drama film based on Ruth Gordon's autobiographical play Years Ago. Gordon herself wrote the screenplay. The film was directed by George Cukor and stars Jean Simmons, Spencer Tracy, Teresa Wright, and Anthony Perkins in his...
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- 90 min (54 hs )
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Justine
Justine (1969) is a drama film directed by George Cukor and Joseph Strick. It was written by Lawrence B. Marcus and Andrew Sarris, based on the 1957 novel Justine by Lawrence Durrell.
Set in Alexandria in 1938, a young British schoolmaster named...
Initial release date:
- Aug 6, 1969
Runtime:
- 116 min (69.6 hs )
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Zaza
Zaza is a 1939 film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Zoe Akins, based on play Zaza. The music score is by Frederick Hollander. The film stars Claudette Colbert (who had replaced Isa Miranda) and...
Initial release date:
- Jan 14, 1939
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Runtime:
- 83 min (50 hs )
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The Chapman Report
The Chapman Report is a 1962 film made by DFZ Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by George Cukor and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and Richard D. Zanuck, from a screenplay by Wyatt Cooper and Don Mankiewicz, adapted...
Initial release date:
- Oct 5, 1962
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Runtime:
- 125 min (75 hs )
No More Ladies
No More Ladies is a 1935 film starring Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, and Franchot Tone, directed by Edward H. Griffith and George Cukor. It is based on a play by A.E. Thomas.
Marcia, (Crawford), a young socialite is a firm believer that a couple...
Initial release date:
- Jun 14, 1935
Runtime:
- 80 min (48 hs )
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A Woman's Face
A Woman's Face is a 1941 drama film directed by George Cukor, and starring Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas and Conrad Veidt. The film tells the story of Anna Holm, a facially disfigured blackmailer, who because of her appearance, despises everyone she...
Initial release date:
- May 23, 1941
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Runtime:
- 105 min (63 hs )
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a 1938 American drama film directed by Norman Taurog. The screenplay by John V.A. Weaver was based on the classic 1876 novel by Mark Twain.
The United Artists release includes most of the sequences familiar to readers...
Initial release date:
- Feb 11, 1938
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Girls About Town
Girls About Town is a 1931 comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Kay Francis.
Initial release date:
- Nov 7, 1931
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Runtime:
- 66 min (40 hs )
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The Model and the Marriage Broker
The Model and the Marriage Broker is a 1951 comedy film about a model who is so pleased with the work of a marriage broker, she decides to return the favor.
Initial release date:
- 1951
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Runtime:
- 103 min (61.8 hs )
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Une heure près de toi
Une heure près de toi is a 1932 French language film made by Paramount Pictures, directed by George Cukor and Ernst Lubitsch. The screenplay was written by Léopold Marchand and Samson Raphaelson, based on play Only a Dream by Lothar Schmidt.
The...
Initial release date:
- Jun 1, 1932
Runtime:
- 78 min (47 hs )
Travels with My Aunt
Travels with My Aunt is a 1972 American comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jay Presson Allen and Hugh Wheeler is based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Graham Greene.
While attending the cremation of his mother's remains,...
Initial release date:
- Dec 17, 1972
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Runtime:
- 109 min (65.4 hs )
Tarnished Lady
Tarnished Lady is a 1931 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart is based on his short story "A Story of a New York Lady."
Nancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a...
Initial release date:
- May 2, 1931
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Runtime:
- 83 min (50 hs )
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A Life of Her Own
A Life of Her Own is a 1950 American melodrama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Isobel Lennart focuses on an aspiring model who leaves her small town in the Midwest to seek fame and fortune in New York City.
Small town girl Lily...
Initial release date:
- Sep 1, 1950
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Runtime:
- 108 min (64.8 hs )
Her Cardboard Lover
Her Cardboard Lover is a 1942 American comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jacques Deval, John Collier, Anthony Veiller, and William H. Wright is based on the English translation of Deval's play Dans sa candeur naïve by Valerie...
Initial release date:
- Jul 16, 1942
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- 93 min (56 hs )
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Our Betters
Our Betters is a 1933 American satirical comedy film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jane Murfin and Harry Wagstaff Gribble is based on the 1923 play of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham.
When American heiress Pearl Saunders learns...
Initial release date:
- Feb 23, 1933
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Runtime:
- 83 min (50 hs )
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The Virtuous Sin
The Virtuous Sin is a 1930 American comedy-drama film directed by George Cukor and Louis J. Gasnier. The screenplay by Martin Brown and Louise Long is based on the play The General by Lajos Zilahy.
Marya is the wife of medical student Victor Sablin,...
Initial release date:
- Oct 24, 1930
Runtime:
- 80 min (48 hs )
Grumpy
Grumpy (1930) is a American drama film directed by George Cukor and Cyril Gardner, and released by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay by Doris Anderson is based on a play by Horace Hodges and Thomas Wigney. A Spanish-language version entitled...
Initial release date:
- Aug 1, 1930
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Runtime:
- 74 min (44 hs )
Rockabye
Rockabye is a 1932 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Jane Murfin is based on a play by Lucia Bronder.
When stage actress Judy Carroll testifies on behalf of her former lover, accused embezzler Al Howard, she loses...
Initial release date:
- Nov 25, 1932
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Runtime:
- 68 min (41 hs )
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Winged Victory
An U.S. Army-requested film production of a popular wartime (World War II) Broadway play about a group of new Army pilot recruits as the learn, live and love.
Initial release date:
- Dec 22, 1944
