One of Hollywood's brightest talents, George Cukor has often been dismissed as a "woman's director". Accurate or not, he was responsible for some of the greatest treasures of Hollywood's golden era.The plump, bespectacled Cukor was born and raised in New York City. Stage-struck from childhood, he haunted Broadway and got his first professional work as assistant stage manager in a Chicago company of "The Better 'Ole" (1919). From 1920-1927, he directed for his own stock company in Rochester, NY, then relocated to manage the Empire Theater on 42nd Street. It was there he worked with such stage
