Character-actor great Thelma Ritter stars as a marriage broker who makes model Jeanne Crain her personal business. When she learns that young and winning Crain is...
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant shine in this gentle Gentle Cukor screwball comedy about a wrong marriage halted and the right one joyously celebrated. Grant’s a...
George Cukor strays near film noir territory with this intriguing melodrama of a woman disfigured from childhood who carries her scars inside as well. Bitter, lonely...
In the low key drama Justine, based on the The Alexandra Quartet of novels by Lawrence Durrell, we are in Alexandria, in 1938, where Darley, a...
George Cukor’s epic film was shot less than a decade after the British handover of India and reflected the West’s continuing ambiguity about the ending of...
In a social satire as sharp as a cat’s claw, George Cukor pulls back the curtains of drawing rooms and ladies’ lounges to expose the machinations...
The almost incredible durability of this plot would seem to point to an enduring public appetite for the mildly prurient. It saw service as a successful...
In what many considered (at the time of its release) the role of Ronald Colman’s career, the matinee idol gets to play both a veteran stage...
Tracy and Hepburn at their best as two married lawyers who take opposite sides of a front-page case. District Attorney Tracy heads the prosecution when a...
This glossy remake of 1943’s Old Acquaintance (based on the John Van Druten play) was legendary director George Cukor’s last film, and it retains most of...
This charming Cukor musical revolves around three showgirls who feel betrayed when one of them writes a memoir about their days in a French cabaret act....
This flag-waver dedicated to the men of the Army Air Force is directed by George Cukor, a director better known for deft handling of drama than...
Banker Alec McCowen gets drawn into the wild life of his aunt (Maggie Smith) when she informs him at his mother’s cremation that the ashes are...
Katharine Hepburn makes her screen debut in A Bill of Divorcement as the coltish young woman who comes to know the stranger who is her father....
George Cukor directs the seventh pairing of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy and, in one of their best outings, the sparring has an athletic setting to...