HOLLYWOOD -- Oscar-winning movie director George Cukor will be buried Friday and a public memorial service will be held the following Wednesday, his family says.
Cukor, who directed Hollywood's most glamorous actresses from Greta Garbo to Candice Bergen in more than 40 movies during five decades, died Monday of heart failure.
He was 83.
A family spokesman said Cukor died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after sufferinga heart attack in his Hollywood Hills home. Funeral arrangements were pending.
Cukor won an Academy Award for 'My Fair Lady' in 1964. His other hits included 'The Philadelphia Story,' 'Little Women,' 'Gaslight,' 'Adam's Rib' and 'A Star Is Born.'
The family said Tuesday a private funeral and burial will be held at the Little Church of the Flowers at Forest Lawn in Glendale, Calif. The public memorial will be held at the Directors Guild.
Cukor, who first gained fame in the 1930s, earned a reputation for being especially effective with temperamental leading ladies who fought for him to direct their films. Among his lifelong friends were Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn and Miss Garbo.
Cukor also directed Jean Harlow, Judy Garland and Marilyn Monroe.
