Stage Door
1937
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Gregory La Cava (March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952) was an American film director of Italian descent best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door, which earned him nominations for Academy Award for Best Director.
Gregory La Cava. Director: My Man Godfrey. A former cartoonist, Gregory La Cava entered films during WWI as an animator for Walter Lantz on such animated films as "The Katzenjammer Kids" series. Hired by the Hearst Corp. as the editor-in-chief for its International Comic Films division, La Cava switched to live-action films in the 1920s and ...
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- Towanda, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Malibu, California, USA
May 7, 2024 · Gregory La Cava (born March 10, 1892, Towanda, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 1, 1952, Los Angeles, California) was an American film director best known for his screwball comedies, especially My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937).
- Michael Barson
Gregory La Cava is probably the greatest classic Hollywood director still in need of rediscovery. While for many people 1930s Hollywood means Chaplin, Hitchcock, von Sternberg, Hawks, Ford, and Lubitsch, with passing nods to Borzage and McCarey, La Cava — who created several of that decade’s most enduring classics — has been unjustly ...
Gregory La Cava. Director: My Man Godfrey. A former cartoonist, Gregory La Cava entered films during WWI as an animator for Walter Lantz on such animated films as "The Katzenjammer Kids" series. Hired by the Hearst Corp. as the editor-in-chief for its International Comic Films division, La Cava switched to live-action films in the 1920s and ...
- March 10, 1892
- March 1, 1952
Jun 22, 2024 · Director Gregory La Cava (1892–1952)—New York newspaperman, cartoonist, and hard drinker—headed off to Hollywood in the thirties to make bigger dough and some terrific movies.
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Often overshadowed by Howard Hawks, Ernst Lubitsch and Preston Sturges, director Gregory La Cava was a fine practitioner of the screwball comedy while earning a reputation for drawing...
