Direction: Gregory La Cava
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Gregory La Cava. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 31
My Man Godfrey
1936 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast William Powell · Carole Lombard · Gail Patrick · Alice Brady
Synopsis Director Gregory La Cava deftly balances satire, romance, and social comment in this 1936 classic, which echoes Frank Capra in its Depression-era subtext. The Bullocks are a well-heeled, harebrained Manhattan family genetically engineered for screwball collisions: father Alexander (Eugene Pallette,...
7.7
3K votes
7.7
3K votes
Stage Door
1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Ginger Rogers · Adolphe Menjou · Andrea Leeds
Synopsis Terry Randall, rich society beauty, has decided to see if she can break into the Broadway theatre scene without her family connections. She goes to live in a theatrical boarding house and finds her life caught up with those of...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
5th Avenue Girl (Fifth Avenue Girl)
1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Ginger Rogers · James Ellison · Walter Connolly · Tim Holt
6.8
508 votes
6.8
508 votes
The Half Naked Truth
1932 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Lupe Velez · Lee Tracy · Eugene Pallette · Frank Morgan
Synopsis 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.
6.8
57 votes
6.8
57 votes
She Married Her Boss
1935 · Movie · 85 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Claudette Colbert · Melvyn Douglas · Michael Bartlett · Raymond Walburn
Synopsis A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
6.8
196 votes
6.8
196 votes
Symphony of Six Million
1932 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Ricardo Cortez · Irene Dunne · Anna Appel · Gregory Ratoff
Synopsis A brilliant young doctor (Cortez) grows away from his family and his community in his drive to succeed. When tragedy strikes his family, he sees where his obligations lie, but will it be too late?
6.6
237 votes
6.6
237 votes
Bed of Roses
1933 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Constance Bennett · Joel McCrea · John Halliday · Pert Kelton
Synopsis Florry and Minnieare ex-hookers who leave prison, determined to find the good life with rich men. Along the way Florrie meets and falls in love with cotton barge owner Dan. She must choose between living on a barge with her...
6.5
149 votes
6.5
149 votes
The Primrose Path
1940 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Ginger Rogers · Joel McCrea · Marjorie Rambeau · Miles Mander
Synopsis Mamie Adams (Marjorie Rambeau) supports her alcoholic husband and two daughters by the same profession her mother had practiced: prostitution. Ellie May (Ginger Rogers), the eldest girl, wants desperately to escape her bleak life, and when she meets and falls...
6.5
186 votes
6.5
186 votes
Gabriel Over the White House
1933 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Walter Huston · Karen Morley · Franchot Tone · Arthur Byron
Synopsis 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. But after a miraculous recovery from an auto accident, Hammond is ready...
6.4
114 votes
6.4
114 votes
Smart Woman
1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Mary Astor · Robert Ames · John Halliday · Edward Everett Horton
Synopsis Sexist tale in which Mrs. Nancy Gibson is blamed for husband Donald's philandering because she takes a trip without him. To make him jealous, she turns her attentions to another man (Sir Guy Harrington).
6.4
93 votes
6.4
93 votes
Private Worlds
1935 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Claudette Colbert · Charles Boyer · Joel McCrea · Joan Bennett
Synopsis The work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a...
6.4
104 votes
6.4
104 votes
Unfinished Business
1941 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Irene Dunne · Robert Montgomery · Preston Foster · Eugene Pallette
Synopsis Small town girl (Dunne) Meets and falls for a playboy type (Foster) on a train to New York. For him, the fling is over when they arrive, but she continues to carry a torch. She meets and marries his brother...
6.4
91 votes
6.4
91 votes
The Affairs of Cellini
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Constance Bennett · Fredric March · Frank Morgan · Fay Wray
Synopsis The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
6.1
51 votes
6.1
51 votes
The Age of Consent
1932 · Movie · 63 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Dorothy Wilson · Arline Judge · Richard Cromwell · Eric Linden
6.0
24 votes
6.0
24 votes
Laugh and Get Rich
1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Edna May Oliver · Hugh Herbert · Dorothy Lee · Russell Gleason
6.0
62 votes
6.0
62 votes
Lady in a Jam
1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Irene Dunne · Patric Knowles · Ralph Bellamy · Eugene Pallette
Synopsis Jane Palmer is suspected of insanity after squandering her inheritance, and a young psychiatrist, Dr. Enright, is assigned to her case. Posing as her chauffeur, he drives her out west to her rich grandmother, from whom Jane hopes to recoup...
5.9
22 votes
5.9
22 votes
Living in a Big Way
1947 · Movie · 104 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Gene Kelly · Marie McDonald · Charles Winninger · Phyllis Thaxter
Synopsis Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan 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...
5.4
32 votes
5.4
32 votes
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse: Discuss the Letter G (S)
1916 · Movie · 2 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
3.7
134 votes
3.7
134 votes
His Nibs
1921 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Charles Sale · Colleen Moore · Joseph J. Dowling · J.P. Lockney
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Womanhandled
1925 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction Gregory La Cava
Cast Richard Dix · Esther Ralston · Edmund Breese · Cora Williams
Synopsis 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...
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