George Cukor Events

1932 Mar 22 "One Hour With You" Is Released
One Hour with You is a 1932 film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Samson Raphaelson and his assistant Sam Bellas from the Lothar Schmidt play Only a Dre...
1933 Aug 29 "Dinner At Eight" Is Released
Dinner at Eight is a Pre-Code 1933 comedy of manners/drama produced by MGM Studios. The film was adapted to the screen by Frances Marion and Herman J. Mankiewicz from the play by George S...
1933 Nov 16 "Little Women" Is Released
Little Women is a 1933 American drama film directed by George Cukor. The screenplay by Sarah Y. Mason and Victor Heerman is based on the classic novel of the same name by Louisa May Alcot...
1935 Jan 18 "David Copperfield" Is Released
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger (usually shortened to David Copperfield) is a 1935 film based upon the Charles Dickens novel D...
1936 Aug 20 "Romeo And Juliet" Is Released
Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings. The film stars Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shear...
1936 Dec 12 "Camille" Is Released
Camille is a 1936 American romantic drama film directed by George Cukor and produced by Irving Thalberg and Bernard H. Hyman, from a screenplay by James Hilton, Zoe Akins and Frances Mari...
1939 Dec 15 "Gone With The Wind" Is Released
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American drama romance film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel of the same name and directed by Victor Fleming (Fleming replaced George Cukor). The e...
1940 Dec "The Philadelphia Story" Is Released
The Philadelphia Story is a 1940 romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart. Based on a Broadway play of the same name by Phi...
1944 May 4 "Gaslight" Is Released
Gaslight is a 1944 mystery-thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton's play Angel Street. It was the second version to be filmed; the first, released in Great Britain, had been made a m...
1950 Dec 26 "Born Yesterday" Is Released
Born Yesterday is a 1950 film based on the play of the same name by Garson Kanin and directed by George Cukor. The screenplay was written by Albert Mannheimer with uncredited contribution...
1952 Feb "The Marrying Kind" Is Released
The Marrying Kind (1952) is a film directed by George Cukor, starring Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday. Other cast members include John Alexander, Charles Bronson, Peggy Cass, Barry Curtis, Tom...
1956 Sep 17 "Lust For Life" Is Released
Lust for Life (1956) is a MGM biographical film about the life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, based on the 1934 novel by Irving Stone and adapted by Norman Corwin. It was direc...
1964 Dec 25 "My Fair Lady" Is Released
My Fair Lady is a 1964 musical film adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe stage musical, My Fair Lady, based on the film adaptation of the stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw. The en...
1965 Apr 5 37th Academy Awards
The 37th Academy Awards honored film achievements of 1964. For the first time, an award was presented in the field of makeup. All four acting awards went to non-American actors, something...