In Hollywood, George Cukor Made Movies, Not Waves

A master of high-society soirees and high-quality cinema, the director George Cukor receives an affectionate appreciation in On Cukor, the latest installment of PBS's prestigious, and prestige-conferring, American Masters series. Written, produced, and directed by the documentary filmmaker Robert Trachtenberg, the crisp, 90-minute chronicle, which airs this week, elevates Cukor to the celestial pantheon of auteurs, those motion-picture greats who belong to the ages. It performs the rite of

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