| re: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 07:34 am EDT 03/28/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Just you wait: Turner Classic Movies revisits 'My Fair Lady' tonight as one of its 'Reframed Classics' - Michael_Portantiere 11:40 pm EDT 03/27/21 | |
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| Cukor had directed a number of Selznick's best early films like A Bill of Divorcement, Dinner at Eight, Davis Copperfield, and Little Women (for which Selznick was an uncredited supervisor), but he was a strange choice for a sweeping epic like Gone with the Wind. I'm surprised that Selznick didn't choose Jack Conway, who had helmed both Viva Villa! and A Tale of Two Cities. Conway was Gable's favorite director and had also worked with Vivien Leigh in A Yank at Oxford. Cukor was able to direct 4-1/2 scenes in Wind before being replaced, specifically the opening with the Tarleton brothers, Rhett presenting Scarlett with a Paris hat, Scarlett and the Yankee deserter, Melanie giving birth to Beau, and part of the Atlanta charity bazaar. These scenes were Cukor at his best, remain quite memorable, and added a lot of charm to the 4-hour grand, but dated, historical, romantic drama of an old South that never was (except in Margaret Mitchell's vivid imagination). I still enjoy it as an example of great story telling. |
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