Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. Read More »
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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 »
So’s Your Old Man (1926) Gregory La Cava, W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Comedy
Poor glazier Sam Bisbee has invented break-proof glass. He intends to show it off to a convention of automobile men. Due to a mixup his car is switched with another and his demonstration toss of a brick simply breaks the car’s windshield. On the way home he thinks a woman is trying to commit suicide and so prevents her. The woman is really Princess Lescaboura, who arrives in Bisbee’s home town looking for him.
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5th Ave Girl (1939) Gregory La Cava, Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, Comedy, Romance
Troubled with union problems in his business and lonely on his birthday because his wife, Martha, is out with a playboy, millionaire Timothy Borden meets unemployed and hungry Mary Grey in a park and convinces her to help him celebrate at a nightclub. Much to his surprise the following morning, Mary has slept in the guest room for the night. Not unmindful that Martha’s interest in Timothy seems renewed, he hires Mary to stay at the house as an employee and they go out on the town virtually every night. Mary meanwhile has a positive effect on other members of the household: daughter Katherine is in love with Michael, the communism-spouting chauffeur, and seeks her advice; and son Tim is forced to take over the neglected business to keep it from running downhill, which Timothy had been trying unsuccessfully to get him to do. Complications arise when Tim falls in love with Mary, but is bothered by the affair he perceives she is having with his father.
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