GEORGE CUKOR: INTERVIEWS
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Autor Robert Emmet Long (Hrsg.) Seiten 191 Seiten Preis Verlag University Press of Mississippi Datum VÖ November 2001 ISBN 1-578-06-387-6
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Cukor thrived in the Hollywood studio system, creating some of the most beloved movies of the '30s and '40s, including The Philadelphia Story and Adam's Rib. He continued making films into the '80s, but during most of his last three decades, he just tried to recapture his glory days. These interviews come from that period and possess a retrospective, valedictory feeling. Cukor provides insight on his screenwriters, cinematographers, and other collaborators, but his casts get the most attention. After all, "I achieved practically all my screen effects through actors and actresses," he says. In the latest interviews, he grows increasingly curmudgeonly, bemoaning the increased sexual freedom and other changes in Hollywood. It is ironic, then, that the last of these 21 interviews was conducted by the gay magazine The Advocate only months before his death. In it Cukor touches for the first time upon his homosexuality, well known within the industry but covert outside of it.
