Tag: George Cukor
When Angela Lansbury as Nancy Oliver Stole the Show in Gaslight
While Angela Lansbury might not have experienced her true career “high” until Murder, She Wrote (and also, well, being the voice of Mrs. Potts in [Read More…]
Ernst Lubitsch’s One Hour With You: Like An “Upbeat” Revolutionary Road
In the era of pre-code Hollywood, the scandalous and horndog nature of most screenplays was utterly pervasive. Samson Raphaelson’s (who also wrote such classics as [Read More…]
It Should Happen to You: A Prescient Take on Modern Fame
The renowned “woman’s director” (that was derisive code for the open Hollywood secret of his sexuality), George Cukor was, by 1954, all too familiar with [Read More…]
