George Cukor: A Double Life

ISBN: 0816680388

Author: McGilligan, Patrick

Condition: Used

One of the highest-paid studio contract directors of his time, George Cukor was nominated five times for an Academy Award as Best Director. In publicity and mystique he was dubbed the womens director for guiding the most sensitive leading ladies to immortal performances, including Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Judy Garland, and-in ten films, among them The Philadelphia Story and Adams Rib-his lifelong friend and collaborator Katharine Hepburn. But behind the womens director label lurked the open secret that set Cukor apart from a generally macho fraternity of directors: he was a homosexual, a rarity among the top echelon. Patrick McGilligans biography reveals how Cukor persevered within a system fraught with bigotry while becoming one of Hollywoods consummate filmmakers.