Direction: Gregory La Cava

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Gregory La Cava. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

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

6.0

24 votes

Laugh and Get Rich

1931 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

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

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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...

Not rated

Not rated