George Cukor papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 2001

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains the papers of American director George Cukor (1899-1983), covering the years 1932-1963. Materials include telegrams, correspondence, photographs, stills and a television script for "This is Your Life" honoring Bessie Love (1965). The majority of the correspondence is from Laurette Taylor (1933-1935) and between Cukor and Moss Hart (1945-1959).

Dates

Creation: 1932 - 1961

Creator

Cukor, George, 1899-1983 (Person)

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Rights Statement for Archival Description

Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Cinematic Arts Library at ctlibarc@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Cinematic Arts Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical / Historical

George Cukor (1899-1983) was an American film director. He directed films including A Bill of Divorcement (1932), Our Betters (1933), and Little Women (1933) Dinner at Eight (1933), David Copperfield (1935), Romeo and Juliet (1936), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Gaslight (1944), A Star Is Born (1954). Cukor won an Academy Award for Best Director for My Fair Lady (1964).