 Levy's biography of George Cukor, Master of Elegance (William Morrow, 1994), established that he was the best actor director in Hollywood, and that, contrary to popular notion, he was not fired from "Gone With the Wind" due to threatening demands from Clark Gable (who had no power), but rather due to conflicts with producer David O. Selznick, who interfered too much and did not like the footage that Cukor had shot.Of his nine books, his magnum opus is considered to be "Cinema Of Outsiders