Direction: George Cukor

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · James Stewart · Ruth Hussey

Synopsis The Philadelphia Story (1940) follows Tracy Lord, a wealthy socialite preparing for her second marriage. As her wedding approaches, her ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven, unexpectedly returns, complicating matters. Meanwhile, a tabloid journalist and photographer arrive to cover the event, adding...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Charles Boyer · Ingrid Bergman · Joseph Cotten · Dame May Whitty

Synopsis In Gaslight (1944), a young woman named Paula moves into her late aunt's London home with her charming new husband, Gregory. As time passes, Paula begins to experience strange occurrences: missing items, mysterious footsteps, and flickering gaslights. Gregory insists she's...

Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood

Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard

Synopsis Gone With the Wind (1939) is an epic historical romance set against the backdrop of the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a strong-willed Southern belle, as she navigates love, loss, and survival....

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Spencer Tracy · Judy Holliday · Tom Ewell

Synopsis Adam's Rib (1949) is a witty courtroom comedy that explores gender dynamics and marital conflict. The story follows married lawyers Adam and Amanda Bonner, who find themselves on opposing sides of a high-profile case. Amanda defends a woman accused of...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Rex Harrison · Stanley Holloway · Wilfrid Hyde-White

Synopsis My Fair Lady (1964) follows the story of Eliza Doolittle, a poor Cockney flower seller, who encounters the arrogant phonetics professor Henry Higgins. Higgins makes a bet with his friend Colonel Pickering that he can transform Eliza into a refined...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Cary Grant · Katharine Hepburn · Lew Ayres · Doris Dolan

Synopsis Free-thinking Johnny Case finds himself betrothed to a millionaire's daughter. When her family, with the exception of black-sheep Linda and drunken Ned, want Johnny to settle down to big business, he rebels, wishing instead to spend the early years of...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Greta Garbo · Robert Taylor · Lionel Barrymore · Elizabeth Allan

Synopsis Marguerite is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Garland · James Mason · Jack Carson · Charles Bickford

Synopsis Norman Maine, a movie star whose career is on the wane, meets showgirl Esther Blodgett when he drunkenly stumbles into her act one night. A friendship develops, then blossoms into romance before tensions increase as Esther's career takes off while...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Marie Dressler · John Barrymore · Wallace Beery · Jean Harlow

Synopsis Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is trying to buy up the stock in his shipping business...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Holliday · William Holden · Broderick Crawford · Howard St. John

Synopsis Uncouth, loud-mouth junkyard tycoon Harry Brock descends upon Washington D.C. to buy himself a congressman or two, bringing with him his mistress, ex-showgirl Billie Dawn. Brock hires newspaperman Paul Verrall to see if he can soften her rough edges and...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Norma Shearer · Joan Crawford · Rosalind Russell · Mary Boland

Synopsis Wealthy Mary Haines is unaware her husband is having an affair with shopgirl Crystal Allen. Sylvia Fowler and Edith Potter discover this from a manicurist and arrange for Mary to hear the gossip. On the train taking her to a...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Judy Holliday · Peter Lawford · Jack Lemmon · Connie Gilchrist

Synopsis "It Should Happen To You" is the delightful, bubble-headed comedy about Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday), who decides that all one really needs to be famous is a gigantic billboard advertising her name in New York. Well, the trick works and...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Joan Crawford · Melvyn Douglas · Conrad Veidt · Osa Massen

Synopsis Anna Holm is a blackmailer, who because of a facial scar, despises everyone she encounters. When a plastic surgeon performs an operation to correct this disfigurement, Anna becomes torn between the hope of starting a new life, and a return...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Freddie Bartholomew · Frank Lawton · W.C. Fields · Roland Young

Synopsis England, 19th-century. When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to London to work for a...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Joan Bennett · Paul Lukas · Frances Dee

Synopsis Josephine March and her three sisters Margaret, Amy, and Beth grow up with their mother's guidance while their father fights in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865). The vivacious quartet are very close and happy despite limited means. Laurie...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Ronald Colman · Signe Hasso · Edmond O'Brien · Shelley Winters

Synopsis The successful middle-aged Broadway actor Anthony "Tony" John is a dedicated lonely professional that still loves his former wife Brita. They are playing Othello for almost two years and Tony has a breakdown, beginning to lose his mind and sense...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Gene Kelly · Mitzi Gaynor · Kay Kendall · Taina Elg

Synopsis After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren (Kay Kendall) is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele (Taina Elg). A Rashômon (1950)-style narrative presents the story from three...

Direction Ernst Lubitsch · George Cukor

Cast Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Genevieve Tobin · Roland Young

Synopsis Dr. André Bertier and his wife Colette live happily until her flirtatious school friend, Mitzi Olivier, comes to visit them. Mitzi schemes to get André alone by pretending to be ill and trying to seduce him, but her husband, Professor...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Anna Magnani · Anthony Quinn · Anthony Franciosa · Joseph Calleia

Synopsis A widowed Nevada rancher goes to Italy and marries the sister of his deceased wife and brings her back to the ranch, but his haunting memories of his lost love and her tendency to drift away to other men cause...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Jacqueline Bisset · Candice Bergen · Meg Ryan · David Selby

Synopsis Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) and Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) become friends as college roommates and their friendship endures over the years. Liz becomes a respected "serious" novelist. Merry Noel marries, has a daughter and writes, too: "trash" fiction which becomes...