He was innate George Dewey Cukor within New York City to Hungarian Jewish immigrants, Victor F. & Helen (Gross) Cukor. (His title means sugar within Hungarian.) As a adolescent, he was infatuated using theater and often cut classes to attend afternoon matinees. Ensuing his graduation from either De Witt Clinton High School inside 1916, he spent a year by owning a Students Army How to videos Corps. He so found the job as an adjunct stager for the Chicago theater company. Fallowing gaining triplet years of personal experience, he formed his have stock index company within Rochester, New York in 1920, and worked there for sevener years. He so returned to Broadway in which he worked by having such formidable actresses when Ethel Barrymore and Jeanne Eagles.

After Hollywood began to recruit New York theater talent for sound films, Cukor answered their call & moved there inside 1929. His 1st job was as a dialog director at Paramount Pictures for the film River of Romance (1929), followed by All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). He so co-directed triad films prior to making his solo debut directing Tallulah Bankhead in Tarnished Lady (1931). Cukor left Paramount when the legal dispute following from either either his dismissal from an earliest film (1 Hour Sustaining Wise shoppers) & went to function with David O. Selznick at RKO Studios.

Cukor's career flourished at RKO in which he directed the string of telling films including What Price Hollywood (1932), The Bill of Divorce (1933), Dinner at Eight (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Camille (1937).

By this period, Cukor got established the reputation as the director world health organization can coax nifty performances from either actresses & he began called a "woman's director," the title which he resented. One of Cukor's foremost ingenues was actress Katharine Hepburn, whose looks and personality left RKO officials nonplused when to training apply her. Cukor ended higher directing her around her virtually all successful films & it became close friends off a placed.

Cukor was hired to straight Gone with the Wind by David O. Selznick inside 1937 & he spent of these month sustaining pre-production duties too when disbursement hanker hours coaching Vivien Leigh and Olivia de Havilland, the film's stars. Cukor was presently fired from either either a film, but, sustaining hearsay ranging from Clark Gable being uncomfortalbe with Cukor's homosexuality to Cukor quitting the film himself because of many production delays. Whatever a understanding, Cukor continued to coach Leigh & De Havilland off a placed.

Ensuing a Never again downwind debacle, Cukor directed The Women (1939), a popular film notable for its altogether female cast & The Philadelphia Story (1940) starring Katharine Hepburn. He besides directed an additional of his favored actresses, Greta Garbo, in 2 Faced Woman (1941) prior to she retired from either a screen.

the Forties was a decade of hits & misses for Cukor. He was dispatch track by owning 2 Faced Woman also when Her Cardboard Lover (1942) starring Norma Shearer. Still, he did achieve supplementary profits using films like ''The Woman's Face (1941) using Joan Crawford, Gaslight (1944) with Ingrid Bergman and Adam's Rib'' (1949) with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.

Cukor's reputation as an actor's director continued when he helped many actors win Academy Awards. Ronald Colman won a Best Actor Oscar for A Double Life (1947) & Judy Holliday won for Best Actress in 1950 for Born Yesterday. Inside 1954, Cukor mass produced his number one film around color, A Star is Born which featured an impressive came-back performance by Judy Garland. The decade late, Cukor won an Oscar himself, for Best Director, for My Fair Lady (1964).

He continued to function into his 80s & directed his previous film, Rich people & Famous, within 1981.

Cukor was easily known inside his portable life as a human of peachy taste & filtration. whilst you took the bloom of Hollywood, his celebrated house was a sight of each week Sunday parties & his guests knew that it would universally buy interesting company, serious food & a beautiful atmosphere when it visited. Cukor's friends were of preponderating importance to him & he saved his personal filled using their photo. Regular attendees at his soirees involved Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. , Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Richard Cromwell, Noel Coward, Cole Porter, James Whale, Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg. Cukor, world health organization was gay, did non appear as a spokesman for gay rights however worked behind a scenes to fight homophobia inside Hollywood.

George Cukor died 1983 at a age of 83. He was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Filmography
Grumpy (movie) (1930) Virtuous Sin (1930) The Royal Family of Broadway (1930) Tarnished Lady (1931), Girls About Town (1931), A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Rockabye (1932), What Price Hollywood? (1932), One Hour with You (1932) Dinner At Eight (1933), Our Betters (1933), Little Women (1933), David Copperfield (1935), No More Ladies, (1935), Sylvia Scarlett (1935), Camille (1936), Romeo and Juliet (1936), Holiday (1938), Zaza (1939), Gone with the Wind (started, replaced by Victor Fleming and Sam Wood) (1939), The Women (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Susan and God (1940), Two-Faced Woman (1941), ''A Woman's Face (1941), Her Cardboard Lover (1942), Keeper of the Flame (1942), Gaslight (1944), Winged Victory (1944), A Double Life (1947), Edward, My Son (1949), Adam's Rib (1949), Born Yesterday (1950), A Life of Her Own (1950), The Model and the Marriage Broker (1951), The Marrying Kind (1952), Pat and Mike (1952), The Actress (1953), A Star is Born (1954), It Should Happen to You (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), Les Girls (1957), Wild Is the Wind (1957), Heller in Pink Tights (1960), Let's Make Love (1960), The Chapman Report (1962), My Fair Lady (1964), Justine (1969), Travels With My Aunt (1972), The Blue Bird (1976), Rich and Famous'' (1981).