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Gregory La Cava is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 10 march 1892 at Pennsylvania (USA)
Gregory La Cava est un réalisateur, producteur, scénariste et animateur américain, né le 10 mars 1892 à Towanda, Pennsylvanie (États-Unis), et mort le 1er mars 1952 à Malibu, (Californie).
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Gregory La Cava
Nationality USA
Birth 10 march 1892 at Pennsylvania (USA)
Death 1 march 1952 (at 59 years) at Malibu (USA)
Birth 10 march 1892 at Pennsylvania (USA)
Death 1 march 1952 (at 59 years) at Malibu (USA)
Gregory La Cava est un réalisateur, producteur, scénariste et animateur américain, né le 10 mars 1892 à Towanda, Pennsylvanie (États-Unis), et mort le 1er mars 1952 à Malibu, (Californie).
Biography
Gregory La Cava commence sa carrière comme dessinateur et animateur de cartoons. Dans les années 1910 et 1920, il tourne des courts-métrages, dont certains avec son ami W. C. Fields. Sous contrat avec la RKO Pictures, il rencontre le succès, en qualité de réalisateur et de scénariste, dans les années 1930 avec des classiques comme The Half Naked Truth, Mon homme Godfrey,The Age of Consent ou Pension d'artistes. En 1932, sa secrétaire Dorothy Wilson, embauchée depuis deux ans par la RKO est sélectionnée, après de talentueux essais, pour tenir un des deux premiers rôles féminins de The Age of Consent. Devenant une des Baby Star de la WAMPAS de la promotion 1932, Gregory La Cava la fait jouer dans bon nombre de ses films. Mais, son alcoolisme et le mécontentement des producteurs envers ses méthodes de travail (tournage sans le moindre script) entraînent le déclin de sa carrière.Usually with
Filmography of Gregory La Cava (33 films)
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One Touch of Venus (1948)
, 1h22Directed by William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Eve Arden, Tom Conway, Olga San Juan, Dick Haymes
Rating65%
Wealthy department-store mogul Whitfield Savory II buys a statue of Venus for $200,000. He plans to exhibit it in the store.
Living in a Big Way (1947)
, 1h44Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger, Phyllis Thaxter, Spring Byington, Jean Adair
Rating60%
Leo Gogarty (Kelly) marries Margaud Morgan (McDonald) after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. When he returns, he is surprised to discover not only that his bride is not what she led him to believe, but also that she expects a quick divorce. Both Mr. and Mrs. Gogarty must find their place with or without each other in a society still adjusting to peace.
Lady in a Jam (1942)
, 1h18Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance, Western
Actors Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette, Samuel S. Hinds, Charles Lane
Rating61%
Unfinished Business (1941)
, 1h36Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, Eugene Pallette, Dick Foran, Esther Dale
Rating63%
Au mariage de sa sœur, Nancy se dit qu'elle devrait bien faire quelque chose de sa vie, elle aussi. Elle prend le train pour New York afin de se trouver un avenir comme chanteuse. Dans le train, elle devient amoureuse de Steve, un beau-parleur coureur de jupons, qui lui promet la lune, mais l'oublie dès l'arrivée. Elle ne désespère pas, mais trouve un travail dans un bar, puis se fait remarquer par un impresario qui la présente dans un club mondain. Elle y rencontre Tommy, le frère de Steve, et finit par l'épouser, toujours amoureuse de Steve. Au fil du temps, elle découvre quel est son véritable amour.
Primrose Path (1940)
, 1h33Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers, Charlie Hall, Miles Mander
Rating67%
Tomboy Ellie May Adams (Ginger Rogers) keeps her virtue despite her difficult circumstances. Her alcoholic, Greek scholar father Homer (Miles Mander) is unemployable, leaving her loving mother Mamie (Marjorie Rambeau) to support the family by going out with men. Her ex-prostitute grandmother (Queenie Vassar) sees nothing wrong with their shared profession.
Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
, 1h23Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison, Tim Holt, Kathryn Adams Doty
Rating67%
Wealthy industrialist Alfred Borden (Walter Connolly) has problems both at work and at home. His employees at Amalgamated Pump are making demands that may drive the business he has built up from nothing into bankruptcy, and his son Tim (Tim Holt) has lost a major customer through neglect (he prefers playing polo). On his birthday, Borden's secretary gives him a loud tie as a gift, but when he goes home to his Fifth Avenue mansion, he finds nobody there but the servants. His unfaithful wife Martha (Verree Teasdale), his daughter Katherine (Kathryn Adams), and Tim have all forgotten or do not care.
Stage Door (1937)
, 1h32Directed by Gregory La Cava, James Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about television, Films based on plays
Actors Katharine Hepburn, Franklin Pangborn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, William Corson, Pierre Watkin
Rating76%
Terry Randall (Katharine Hepburn) moves into the Footlights Club, a theatrical rooming house in New York. Her polished manners and superior attitude make her no friends among the rest of the aspiring actresses living there, particularly her new roommate, flippant, cynical dancer Jean Maitland (Ginger Rogers). From Terry's expensive clothing and her photograph of her elderly grandfather, Jean assumes she has obtained the former from her sugar daddy, just as fellow resident Linda Shaw (Gail Patrick) has from her relationship with influential theatrical producer Anthony Powell (Adolphe Menjou). In truth however, Terry comes from a very wealthy, upper class, Midwest family. Over the strong objections of her father, Henry Sims (Samuel S. Hinds), she is determined to try to fulfill her dreams on her own. In the boarding house, Terry's only supporter is aging actress Catherine Luther (Constance Collier), who appoints herself Terry's mentor.
My Man Godfrey (1936)
, 1h34Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Mischa Auer
Rating78%
Source: During the Great Depression, Godfrey "Smith" Parke (William Powell) is living alongside other men down on their luck at the city dump. One night, spoiled socialite Cornelia Bullock (Gail Patrick) offers him five dollars ($83 in 2013) to be her "forgotten man" for a scavenger hunt. Annoyed, he advances on her, causing her to retreat and fall on a pile of ashes. She leaves in a fury, much to the glee of her younger sister, Irene (Carole Lombard). After talking with her, Godfrey finds her to be kind, if a bit scatter-brained. He offers to go with Irene to help her beat Cornelia.
Private Worlds (1935)
, 1h24Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joel McCrea, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson, Samuel S. Hinds
Rating63%
The film tells the story of problems in the lives of doctors and patients. A female doctor (Colbert) probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution. The very caring psychiatrist and her colleague face discrimination by a conservative new supervisor.
She Married Her Boss (1935)
, 1h25Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Jean Dixon, Raymond Walburn, Clara Kimball Young, Katharine Alexander
Rating64%
It tells the story of a secretary who married her boss, however she has a hard time living up to him.
The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
, 1h20Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Frank Morgan, Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Fay Wray, Louis Calhern, Vince Barnett
Rating59%
Both the Duke and Duchess have an eye for beauty and other partners. The Duke presently fancies a young woman who poses as an artist's model. The Duchess has her eye on the famous artist, Benvenuto Cellini, who is in the palace making a set of gold plates to be used at ducal banquets. Cellini purportedly hypnotizes young women, and cuckolds the Duke of Florence. The somewhat oblivious Duke is loath to punish the young man, for Cellini fashions gold wares for him, but throws him into the torture chamber. However, a goblet of poisoned wine solves the problem.
What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Directed by Lesley Selander, Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Dudley Digges, Lucile Watson, Donald Crisp
Rating65%
Alick Wylie (David Torrence) and his sons David (Donald Crisp) and James (Dudley Digges) are greatly concerned about Alick's daughter Maggie (Helen Hayes), who has been jilted by a minister. She is less than heartbroken, but they fear for her marital prospects at the age of 27. When they catch poor but ambitious 21-year-old John Shand (Brian Ahern) breaking into their house late at night to use their library, they seize the opportunity. Impressed by his initiative, they offer him £300 to finance his studies provided that he give Maggie the option of marrying him after five years. After some thought, he agrees. The Wylies insist he sign a formal contract.
Bed of Roses (1933)
, 1h7Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Pert Kelton, John Halliday, Samuel S. Hinds, Franklin Pangborn
Rating63%
Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
, 1h26Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron, Samuel S. Hinds, Claire Du Brey
Rating63%
When the film opens, U.S. President Judson C. 'Judd' Hammond (Huston) (possibly a reference to Judson Harmon) is variously described as "a Hoover-like partisan hack" or "basically a do-nothing crook, based on, to some extent, Warren G. Harding." Then he suffers a near-fatal automobile accident and goes into a coma. Through what Portland State University instructor Dennis Grunes calls "possible divine intervention," Hammond (an "FDR lookalike") miraculously recovers, emerging "a changed man, an activist politician, a Roosevelt."
Gallant Lady (1933)
, 1h24Directed by Gregory La Cava
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Otto Kruger, Tullio Carminati, Dickie Moore, Janet Beecher
Rating68%
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