# The best George Cukor films

Screwball, musicals, noir and Katharine Hepburn: Cukor's finest, ordered from Gold Derby, Flickchart and the Letterboxd rankings, from Dinner at Eight to My Fair Lady.

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- Jun 30, 2024 · Kirsty Cox
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## Top 14

1. **The Philadelphia Story (1940)** (48 · ▲54 ▼6) — Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and James Stewart; Oscar for Stewart.
2. **Holiday (1938)** (37 · ▲44 ▼7) — Hepburn and Grant against a stuffy family fortune.
3. **Gaslight (1944)** (32 · ▲39 ▼7) — Ingrid Bergman won the Oscar as a wife being driven mad.
4. **Adam's Rib (1949)** (27 · ▲33 ▼6) — Tracy and Hepburn as married lawyers on opposite sides.
5. **Camille (1936)** (27 · ▲28 ▼1) — Greta Garbo as Marguerite Gautier.
6. **A Star Is Born (1954)** (25 · ▲31 ▼6) — Judy Garland and James Mason.
7. **The Women (1939)** (25 · ▲28 ▼3) — An all-female cast led by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell.
8. **Born Yesterday (1950)** (23 · ▲26 ▼3) — Judy Holliday won the Oscar.
9. **David Copperfield (1935)** (21 · ▲29 ▼8) — W. C. Fields as Mr. Micawber.
10. **My Fair Lady (1964)** (20 · ▲25 ▼5) — Audrey Hepburn as Eliza; eight Oscars including Best Picture and Director.
11. **Sylvia Scarlett (1935)** (17 · ▲26 ▼9) — Hepburn disguised as a boy, first pairing with Cary Grant.
12. **Dinner at Eight (1933)** (17 · ▲24 ▼7) — Jean Harlow, John Barrymore and an all-star dinner party.
13. **Pat and Mike (1952)** (17 · ▲24 ▼7) — Hepburn as an athlete, Tracy as her manager.
14. **Little Women (1933)** (17 · ▲22 ▼5) — Katharine Hepburn as Jo March.

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