George Cukor – Stream On Demand

Last chance: Ingrid Bergman gets ‘Gaslight’ed on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, based on a play, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, National Film Registry, psychological drama, suspense, SVOD 11/19/2022 Sean Axmaker

George Cukor entered Hitchcock territory with this shadowy tale of suspense and madness set in the gas-lit glow and cobblestone quaintness of Victorian London. The film also inspired the term “gaslighting.”

The all-star 1935 ‘David Copperfield’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, based on a novel, childhood, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, HBO Max, historical, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD 07/09/2022 Sean Axmaker

Charles Dickens’ sprawling, semi-autobiographical novel gets squeezed into a vivid (if episodic) 130-minute Hollywood feature in the handsome MGM production from director George Cukor.

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in the film that won 10 Academy Awards

‘Gone with the Wind’ on HBO Max

!Featured, Academy Award, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, DVD, Essential Viewing, HBO Max, Hollywood Classic, SVOD 01/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Winner of 10 Oscars and beloved and revered by generations of filmgoers, this classic showcases the best and worst of old Hollywood.

Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman in the original pre-code 'Star is Born' from George Cukor

‘What Price Hollywood?’ – the pre-code ‘A Star is Born’ on The Criterion Channel

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Classic Movie, Criterion Channel, DVD, Have You Seen...?, Hollywood Classic, movies about movies, pre-code 05/06/2019 Sean Axmaker

What Price Hollywood? (1932) is one of the wittiest and most interesting Hollywood movies about Hollywood culture ever made. It’s a shame it’s not better known. This pre-code comedy stars Constance Bennett as an aspiring actress waiting tables at The Brown Derby who gets her big break when a drunken film director (Lowell Sherman) invites […]

Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger star in George Cukor's drama of the end of colonial British rule in India

‘Bhowani Junction’ on VOD and DVD

!Featured, Classic Movie, drama, DVD, historical, Hollywood Classic, literary adaptation, SVOD 03/22/2018 Sean Axmaker

Set in 1947 India, after World War II and in the early days of the independence movement, Bhowani Junction (1956) is a Hollywood drama with an old-fashioned sense of storytelling and a modern (for the time) approach to colonialism, bigotry and identity. Ava Gardner stars as the Anglo-Indian woman looking for her own identity in […]