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George Cukor: Katharine Hepburn
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In Hepburn, Cukor found a woman who exemplified everything he believed in and everything he wanted to be. Thus, a butch but vulnerable actress became the seminal artistic creation of a sensitive but thrillingly earthy gay man. There's a 1940s photograph of the two of them with matching open-mouthed smiles: they have become each other, for a moment or more, and together they created the idea of Katharine Hepburn, a grand and ennobling and essentially solitary idea. George Cukor is Katharine Hepburn, and vice versa. They helped, long before it was fashionable, to de-stabilise the sexes, and they provided an example to lyrical loners everywhere.
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Cukor always denied the "charge" of being a "woman's director." He correctly pointed out that in spite of his legendary collaborations with such talents as Crawford, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Judy Holliday, more men than women had won Oscars for their work in his films.
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Following the Gone with the Wind debacle, Cukor directed The Women (1939), a popular film notable for its all female cast and The Philadelphia Story (1940) starring Katharine Hepburn. He ... directed another of his favorite actresses, Greta Garbo, in Two Faced Woman (1941), her last film before she retired from the screen.
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In other cases, there is a merging of two artistic temperaments that, for Cukor, represents a transcendent state. This happens tellingly in, for example, Holiday (1938), where free spirit Johnny Case (Cary Grant) rejects his rich, stuffy fiancée in favor of her spinster sister (Katharine Hepburn) who turns out to be a dreamer like himself.
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The television files contain material on projects at the end of Cukor's career, including the made-for-television movies Love Among the Ruins and The Corn Is Green, both featuring Katharine Hepburn. There is extensive documentation on the compilation of The Movies (1974), which Cukor executive produced. There are ... files for a National Educational Television program on Cukor, including correspondence and a transcript of a filmed conversation between Cukor and Katharine Hepburn. The stage files contain information and correspondence for The Chalk Garden and Gigi—two stage plays that ultimately were not directed by Cukor.
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Cukor made much-heralded ventures into TV with "Love Among the Ruins" (1975), for which he won an Emmy, and "The Corn is Green" (1979), both starring his old friend Katharine Hepburn. The highly sociable director, discreet but long known as gay to his Hollywood peers, lived in a huge art deco mansion for most of his career, and was famed in the film community for his sparkling gourmet dinner parties and weekend salons.
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