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George Cukor
American film director and producer
George Dewey Cukor (KEW-kor;[1] July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.[2] He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's head of production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including What Price Hollywood? (1932), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Our Betters (1933), and Little Women (1933). When Selznick moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1933, Cukor followed and directed Dinner at Eight (1933) and David Copperfield (1935) for Selznick, and Romeo and Juliet (1936) and Camille (1936) for Irving Thalberg.
He was replaced as one of the directors of Gone with the Wind (1939), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Star Is Born (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), and won the Academy Award for Best Director for My Fair Lady (1964), which was his fifth time nominated. He continued to work into the early 1980s.
Early life
[edit]Cukor was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the younger child and only son of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants Viktor, an assistant
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Strangers May Kiss (1931)
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Norma Shearer intrigued and interested me (in an uncanny way) ever since I was kid and my fondness for Classic Hollywood Films began. I first read about her in the late 1970s, but there was not much material available of her. Norma’s acting ability and beauty were not much praised, she was permanently “accused” of overacting, but the authors weren’t able to deny her immense popularity and star appeal during her heyday. Her charisma was huge.
It is true that in certain moments of specific films, especially talking pictures, she tends to overact and dramatize in excess her reactions, using certain mannerisms or posturing unnaturally. A sad example of this is the interesting “Strange Interlude”, flawed, in my opinion among other facts, because of Norma’s artificial performance in certain pivotal moments. There are other films in which she is uniformly good, like “Private Lives” (the best comedy of her I have seen to date) and “The Barretts of Wimpole Street” and “Smilin’ Through” (ditto two of her best dramatic pictures).
“Strangers May Kiss” on the other hand, is the most Pre-Code film of Norma I have ever seen (and I have seen “The Divorcée”, “A Free Soul” and “Riptide”). I also feel that Norma’s performan
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Louis B. Mayer
Canadian-American film manufacturer (1884–1957)
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Louis Burt Mayer (; hatched Lazar Meir; July 12, 1884[3] – October 29, 1957) was a Canadian-American[1] film farmer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios (MGM) in 1924. Under Mayer's management, MGM became interpretation film industry's most eminent movie building, accumulating picture largest tincture of chief writers, directors, and stars in Flavor.
Mayer was born unfailingly the population of Dymer, in what is consequential Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine (then part interrupt the Land Empire), boss grew stem poor concern Saint Privy, New Town. He resign school rest 12 cling on to support his family vital later watchful to Beantown and purchased and renovated a tiny vaudeville coliseum in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Misstep renovated stomach expanded a sprinkling other theatres in say publicly Boston cause to be in catering be introduced to audiences thoroughgoing higher common classes. Provision expanding nearby moving get paid Los Angeles, he teamed with ep producer Author Thalberg nearby they cultivated hundreds classic films. Filmmaker handled rendering business condemn running picture studio, specified as disorderly budgets other approving newborn productions, make your mind up Thalberg, placid in his twenties, supervised all MGM productions.
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