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George Cukor: Judy Garland
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Alcohol, lunacy and revenge were favourite subjects, but notice too how often Cukor can hint at the kick of sexual abandonment. Early in his career, in Rockabye, Cukor staged an extremely rough bit of kitchen foreplay between actress Judy Carroll (Constance Bennett) and playwright Jacobs Van Riker Pell (Joel McCrea): she slaps him and he shoves her, again and again, back and forth, slowly, lingeringly. There is nothing violent or disturbing about this; it's purely playful and purely sexual (as they start to kiss on the floor, Cukor pans to food sizzling on the stove).
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[T]here were terrible times, when it was impossible for Cukor to get Garland to the studio, and shooting was halted for days. She would stay at home, depressed and unreachable. Harold Arlen, who wrote her famous song, "Over the Rainbow," became Cukor's messenger, as she had a special respect for him.
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One can now see personal meanings in Cukor's characters here. The triangle of the Professor, Eliza and Freddy seems similar to the triangle of the characters played by Jack Lemmon, Judy Holiday and Peter Lawford in Cukor's It Should Happen to You (1954).
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