McBride George Cukor's People

Acting for a Master Director
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-231-55861-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

In this groundbreaking, lavishly illustrated critical study, Joseph McBride provides insightful and revealing essayistic portraits of George Cukor’s actors in their most memorable roles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McBride, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Is George Cukor an Auteur? And Why Does That Matter?
1. Lew Ayres in All Quiet on the Western Front and Holiday
2. Fredric March and Ina Claire in The Royal Family of Broadway
3. Kay Francis in The Virtuous Sin and with Lilyan Tashman in Girls About Town
4. Lowell Sherman in What Price Hollywood?
5. Katharine Hepburn and John Barrymore in A Bill of Divorcement
6. John Barrymore and Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight
7. Katharine Hepburn in Little Women; the Ensemble of David Copperfield
8. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Sylvia Scarlett
9. Greta Garbo in Camille
10. Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant in Holiday
11. Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, and Butterfly McQueen in Gone with the Wind
12. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, and Joan Fontaine in The Women
13. Joan Crawford in Susan and God with Rita Quigley and in A Woman’s Face
14. Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, and James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story
15. Ingrid Bergman and Angela Lansbury in Gaslight
16. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in Adam’s Rib with Judy Holliday and in Pat and Mike
17. Judy Holliday in Born Yesterday, The Marrying Kind with Aldo Ray, and It Should Happen to You with Jack Lemmon
18. Thelma Ritter and Company in The Model and the Marriage Broker
19. Spencer Tracy and Jean Simmons in The Actress
20. Judy Garland and James Mason in A Star Is Born
21. Ava Gardner in Bhowani Junction, Kay Kendall in Les Girls, and Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn in Heller in Pink Tights
22. Marilyn Monroe in Let’s Make Love and Something’s Got to Give
23. Claire Bloom, Jane Fonda, Glynis Johns, and Shelley Winters in The Chapman Report
24. Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady
25. Anna Karina and Dirk Bogarde in Justine
26. Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Lou Gossett, Robert Stephens, and Cindy Williams in Travels with My Aunt
27. Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen in Rich and Famous
28. Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier in Love Among the Ruins
Acknowledgments
Filmography
Notes on Sources
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph McBride is a film historian and a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is the author of biographies of Frank Capra, John Ford, and Steven Spielberg; three books on Orson Welles; and critical studies of Ernst Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, and the Coen Brothers. He acted for Welles in The Other Side of the Wind and has won a Writers Guild of America award.