Abstract
This chapter discusses some of the films made by George Cukor at the end of the Golden Age, including My Fair Lady (1964), for which Cukor won an Academy Award as best director. My Fair Lady was produced by the last great studio mogul, Jack Warner, who was determined to recapture Warner Brothers’s glory as well as his own. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner, it starred Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins. Marni Nixon was chosen to “double” Hepburn’s voice, a decision that devastated the actress. Roughly from 1963 to 1973, Cukor directed three films under his own G-D-C productions: Peter Pan, Nine-Tiger Man, and The Bloomer Girl. Abroad, particularly in France, by the mid-1960s, Cukor’s films were being saluted by film historians and scholars. The influential Cahiers du Cinema, for example, thoroughly admired his work.
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