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Tag Archives: Gregory La Cava
Living in a Big Way (1947) Gregory La Cava, Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger
Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. Read More »
What Every Woman Knows (1934) Gregory La Cava, Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie’s family, fearing she may become a spinster Read More »
The Age of Consent (1932) Gregory La Cava, Dorothy Wilson, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell
The young Michael feels that his girlfriend has betrayed him and he has caught citing another boy. Read More »
Primrose Path (1940) Gregory La Cava, Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother Read More »
The Half-Naked Truth (1932) Gregory La Cava, Lupe Velez, Lee Tracy, Eugene Pallette
A barker at a down-at-the-heels carnival becomes a powerhouse New York publicity man as he transforms a sideshow dancer into a Broadway sensation. Read More »
My Man Godfrey (1936) Gregory La Cava, William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady
In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. Read More »
Running Wild (1927) Gregory La Cava, W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. Read More »
Stage Door (1937) Gregory La Cava, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou
Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. Read More »
She Married Her Boss (1935) Gregory La Cava, Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Bartlett, Comedy
A super-efficient secretary in a department store falls for and marries her boss Read More »
Bed of Roses (1933) Gregory La Cava, Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Lorry and Minnie are ex-hookers who leave prison, determined to find the good life with rich men. Read More »
The Affairs of Cellini (1934) Gregory La Cava, Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Comedy, Drama, History
The Affairs of Cellini is based on Edwin Justus Mayer’s popular stage play The Firebrand, which in turn was based on the life and times of Renaissance artist/political reactionary Benvenuto Cellini. Read More »
Lady in a Jam (1942) Gregory La Cava, Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy, Romance
Jane Palmer is suspected of insanity after squandering her inheritance, and a young psychiatrist, Dr. Enright, is assigned to her case. Read More »
Gabriel Over the White House (1933) Gregory La Cava, Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Newly inaugurated President Judson Hammond is content to live out the next four years exercising a hands-off approach and leaving the problems of Depression America to local authorities. Read More »
Womanhandled (1925) Gregory La Cava, Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can resist the flaming flapper and red-hot mamas along the Great White Way, so he decides to head out west to his uncle’s ranch in Wind River, Texas. But the gold-diggers and their relatives follow him.
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