On Cukor - Hardcover

Lambert, Gavin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847822974 ISBN 13: 9780847822973

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2000

Synopsis

In a collection of witty and incisive interviews, the renowned film director speaks out on some of his great screen classics--including My Fair Lady, A Star Is Born, Philadelphia Story, and Lust for Life--and the stars with whom he worked, such as Judy Garland, Katherine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, Mari

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Review:

"Gavin Lambert's "On Cukor" provides the perfect conjunction of author and subject. The author of "The Slide Area" and "Inside Daisy Clover" has interviewed the director of "The Philadelphia Story" and "A Star is Born," interspersing Cukor's own comments with shrewdly illuminating remarks of his own. The result is very far from being a conventional "movie interview" book. It is an act of Boswellian dedication by a graceful and witty writer in honor of an equally graceful and witty filmmaker."--the "New York Times Book Review" "It is above all about a professional by a professional. To hear Cukor speak of his craft is refreshing and even challenging . . . Lambert has portrayed the man in his setting, captured the tonalities of his voice, has not limited himself to questions, establishing the kind of dramatic tension which Cukor himself appreciated and handled . . . There will be other studies of George Cukor but Lambert's will not be supplanted."--"Los Angeles Times"

About the Author:

Gavin Lambert was born in England and first came to Hollywood as a personal assistant to director Nicholas Ray. He has written seven novels including the currently reprinted "Hollywood Quartet" of The Slide Area, Inside Daisy Clover, The Goodbye People, and Running Time. His non-fiction works include Norma Shearer, Nazimova, and Mainly about Lindsay Anderson. Among his screenplays are The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Inside Daisy Clover and the Oscar-nominated Sons and Lovers and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

Robert Trachtenberg, a filmmaker and photographer, is the director of the American Masters film On Cukor. His photographs have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, and Vanity Fair.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0847822974
• ISBN 13: 9780847822973
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208