Oscar-Winning Director George Cukor (as in "cucumber")

George Cukor was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Director, ultimately winning in 1965 for MY FAIR LADY (1964). His first nominations were for two of the 10 films he made with Katharine Hepburn, LITTLE WOMEN (1933) and THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940).

Producer Jack Warner, Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison,
and George Cukor at the 1964 Academy Awards

Although Cukor was known primarily as a "women's director," he actually holds the record for having directed the most male Oscar winners: James Stewart in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940), Ronald Coleman in A DOUBLE LIFE (1947), and Rex Harrison in MY FAIR LADY (1964). (TCM Classic Movie Trivia)

Book Review: "Celluloid Gaze" by Boze Hadleigh

I won this book last year from my first ever blogathon, the Queer Film Blogathon 2012 hosted by Garbo Laughs and Pussy Goes Grrr. Not being terribly interested in queer theory myself, I was tempted to set this book aside. But flipping through I noticed a whole chapter devoted to George Cukor, Katharine Hepburn's best pal in Hollywood and her director for ten movies. My interest was also piqued by the forward by noted homosexual writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp, or THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT (1975).

If you haven't heard of Boze Hadleigh (I hadn't), let me introduce you. Hadleigh is the authority on the homosexual scene in Hollywood. He has an MA in journalism and has used his talents for researching and writing about Hollywood's both closeted and outed gay communities. He's written more than 15 books, most of them centre on LGBT themes and Hollywood gossip. Two of his works, "Hollywood Gays" and "Hollywood Lesbians" are definitive exposés of the homosexual side of the Hollywood star system.