#george cukor
these two are always enough to make me want love, but this movie in particular does something unexplainable to me. like? he comes from a humble background and his fiancée is trying to shape him into a man of great wealth, just like her dad, but he doesn’t really want that. he’s okay being just wealthy enough to get by! he doesn’t want to be stuck at a job he doesn’t like, even if it promises him millions! and his fiancée’s sister, she’s just like him - positively insane to her family, because she isn’t what they’re all about, either. they find comfort in one another, being the odd ones out, and WHAT MAKES IT BETTER IS THEY BOND IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PLAYROOM HER MOTHER HAD MADE FOR THEM AS CHILDREN BECAUSE SHE WANTED A PLACE FOR THEM TO BE TOGETHER IN THIS BIG HOUSE OF THEIRS. i love this fucking movie. i could watch it a million times over
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“Judy Holliday’s first three starring roles were directed by gay director, George Cukor. She won the Best Actress Academy Award in 1951 for the second of these, Born Yesterday. According to one biography, her career suffered greatly because of her bisexuality. She was one of the many performers banned from working in Hollywood and television due to the McCarthy witch-hunts.”-Excerpt from Bisexual Characters in Film From Ana’s to Zee by Wayne M Bryant
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Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer on set of Romeo and Juliet,1936
There’ll be spring every year without you, England still will be here without you, There’ll be fruit on the tree and a shore by the sea. There’ll be crumpets and tea without you. Art and music will thrive without you. Somehow Keats will survive without you. And there still will be rain on that plain down in Spain. Even that will remain without you. I can do.. without you. You, dear friend who talk so well, you can go to Hartford, Hereford and Hampshire they can still rule the land without you. Windsor Castle will stand without you. And without much ado we can all muddle through, without you! Without your pulling it the tide comes in. Without your twirling it the earth can spin. Without your pushing them the clouds roll by. If they can do without you, Ducky, so can I. I shall not feel alone without you. I can stand on my own without you. So go back in your shell, I can do bloody well.
My Fair Lady (1964), a film by George Cukor.
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Listen, cutie, don’t get nervous just cuz you read a book. You’re as dumb as you ever were.
Harry Brock-Born Yesterday(1950)
Kay Kendall-gene Kelly “Las girls” (Les girls) 1957, de George Cukor.
