The George Cukor Thread

more Bogdo index cards -- nice Welles story at the very end.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/00000143-5a25-d395-a377-7e6faa680000

http://blogs.indiewire.com/peterbogdanovich/the-cukor-file-part-5

holy shit alfred otm abt lew ayers in holiday. completely robbed the movie for me. his monologue to k-hep abt what it's like to get drunk just stopped it. the realest saddest thing. runners-up: "mother tried to be a seton a while, till she gave up and died" and his exit line: "and... to grandfather!"

Here's a list..

A Woman's Face is addled in the best way.

Rich and Famous comes to the Warner Archive: https://www.wbshop.com/products/rich-and-famous-1981-mod

Koresky on Sylvia Scarlett

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/queer-now-then-1935-katherine-hepburn-cary-grant-george-cukor/

A marvelous read, and I've enjoyed his series.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/05f931fc02d365516a299774f13732fb/w0FMh8OYztwqUX6hYASaLhdr7lmeXL_small.jpg

Coming In January!

The 20% of Dinner at Eight that is pure soap opera I'm happy to ignore, given how dazzlingly crafted the rest of it is. Harlow, Dressler, Billie Burke, Lee Tracy (who has two great long scenes with John Barrymore) all near career heights. Wallace Beery and Harlow are doing an early (better) version of Born Yesterday.

And Lionel Barrymore is almost... restrained? How the hell did Cukor pull that off? (Maybe just by whispering "Dressler will eat you alive.")

also... Marie Dressler's Carlotta has a dog named Mussolini, but they redubbed it as "Tarzan" by release date.