Films byTexts by George Cukor
FILM
George Cukor, 1954, 154’

A film star, helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.

 

“I destroy everything I touch.”

Esther Blodgett

 

FILM
Victor Fleming, 1939, 102’

Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept up by a tornado from her home in Kansas. Together they suddenly find themselves in the world of Oz, having to find their way back home, with a little help from some new friends.

 

Where troubles melt like lemon drops

FILM
George Cukor, 1940, 142’

George Kittredge: You’re like some marvelous, distant, well... queen, I guess. You’re so cool and fine and always so much your own. There’s a kind of beautiful purity about you, Tracy, like... like a statue.

Tracy Lord: George...