What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor

by Elyce Rae Helford

Book Overview

During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning the Best Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady . His collaborations with so-called difficult actresses such as Katharine Hepburn, Judy Garland, and Marilyn Monroe unsettled producers even as his ticket sales lined their pockets. Fired from Gone with the Wind for giving Vivien Leigh more screen time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813197023
• ISBN13: 9780813197029
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher