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George Cukor: Women
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[One] clue to Cukor's style is his treatment of the past. He approaches it as if it were the present. It is still there. New England during the Civil War in LITTLE WOMEN, Dickens' England in DAVID COPPERFIELD, the pioneer West in HELLER IN PINK TIGHTS--none of these is self-consciously reconstructed, but comes as directly and vividly alive as Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray walking in Central Park, or Judy Garland as the unknown Esther Blodgett arriving at the studio in A STAR IS BORN. It's a very special gift, making dramatic contact with whatever reality confronts him, and bringing it off through a combination of his own sensibility and imaginative research. Even when the material is spurious, in a potboiler like A LIFE OF HER OWN, the movie itself has nothing perfunctory or tricked-up about it. Too candid to make you believe in something false, it manages to suggest (as Cukor likes to say about his movies that have dated badly) a reality beyond the conventions.
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Theatrically trained, Cukor liked to stage his movies with an emphasis on character, dialogue, and emotion, and a minimum of cinematic tricks or special effects. Rarely working with original material, Cukor preferred to interpret literary classics. His best films were smooth dramas and slick comedies with strong female leads and polished story lines, known in the trade as "women's pictures." He was nominated five times for Academy Awards for his directing.
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Synopsis: Ingrid Bergman won her first of three Oscars for this suspense thriller, crafted with surprising tautness by normally genteel "women's picture" director George Cukor. Bergman stars as Paula Alquist, a laRead More
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Cukor co-directed three films for Paramount Pictures before making his solo debut in 1931 with The Tarnished Lady, a melodrama which featured British theatrical star Tallulah Bankhead. That was followed the same year by Girls About Town, a comedy about women looking for men with money who find true love instead.
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The hero's relationship with the Society women is creepily similar to Cukor women who sell their sexual services to a rich older man. For marrying her, her ultra-wealthy father will reward the hero with a lucrative job. The father will ... guide, train and mentor the hero, just as James Mason does to his sex-protege Judy Garland in A Star Is Born.
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