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"George Cukor\nSparkling Director of Holiday, The Philadelphia Story, and My Fair Lady\nThe dining room.\n\nAn elaborate velvet drapery treatment, neo-Classical architectural details and Venetian parcel-gilt blackamoors combine to create an appropriately theatrical Dining Room setting. A Victorian epergne stands in the center of the Sheraton pedestal table.\nThe entrance hall.\n\n\"I was a New Yorker and came here with the talkies,\" Cukor said in 1978, when his house was first featured in Architectural Digest. \"It never occurred to me that I could live in California. Now I can't imagine living anywhere else.\" A pair of Louis XVI bronze sconces in the entrance hall illuminate a suite of antique carved and silvered wood grotto furniture discovered in Wales.\nA hall lined with photographs of friends.\n\n\"The best times in my life I remember having here\u2014in my own house,\" said director George Cukor, who won an Academy Award for Best Director for My Fair Lady (1964). \"It's been an intimate part of my life, my work, my friends\u2014a great many friends.\"\nOne of the guest rooms.\n\n\"The house suits me perfectly, and I know that I belong here,\" Cukor once said. He rebuilt the house, not far from the Sunset Strip in Beverly Hills, in 1935. A John Piper watercolor, a painting by Kaminski and a Vuillard lithograph enrich a large guest room.\nThe oval room.\n\nIn Hollywood's halcyon days, after six-day workweeks, the director would host Sunday luncheons at his house. \"I don't know how I managed it,\" he recalled. \"There were regulars like Katharine Hepburn and Irene Selznick and Vivien Leigh. Through the years, particularly during the war years, everyone seemed to come here.\"\nThe pool area.\n\n\"The rooms are more or less the way they were when William Haines decorated them [in the 1930s],\" said Cukor of his house, surrounded by statuary, beautiful gardens, an Olympian pool and trickling fountains. \"It all looks,\" he said, \"just like a Hollywood director's house ought to look.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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