Bhowani Junction
film by Cukor [1956]
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discussed in biography
- In George Cukor: Films of the 1950s
…traveled to Pakistan to make Bhowani Junction (1956), with Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger. He then directed the highly stylized musical Les Girls (1957), featuring Mitzi Gaynor, Henry Daniell, and Gene Kelly. Heller in Pink Tights (1960), which starred Sophia Loren, was notable as Cukor’s only western. Let’s Make Love…
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role of Gardner
- In Ava Gardner
…either of the aforementioned, Cukor’s Bhowani Junction (1956) features Gardner in what may be her most praised screen performance, as a half-caste Anglo-Indian heroine torn between two cultures and multiple lovers.
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