Gregory La Cava — Director (18)

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So's Your Old Man (1926) WikiData IMDb TMDB
So's Your Old Man
director: Gregory La Cava actor: W.C. Fields / Alice Joyce …
other title: 你老头也是 / 你老頭也是 …
Gregory La Cava directs this comedy of errors, starring W.C. Fields as a hen-pecked, inebriated inventor who triumphantly creates unbreakable windshield glass while struggling to gain the respect of his social-climbing daughter and nagging wife.

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Unfinished Business (1941) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Unfinished Business
other title: Ansia de amor / Histoire inachevée …
Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment – the film charts the relationship that develops between a small-town girl in the big city, and the brother of the man who has heartlessly seduced and abandoned her.

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She Married Her Boss (1935) WikiData IMDb TMDB
She Married Her Boss
other title: Sucedió una vez / Mon mari le patron …
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.

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Krazy and Ignatz Discuss the Letter 'G' (1916) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Krazy and Ignatz Discuss the Letter 'G'
director: Gregory La Cava
other title: Krazy Kat & Ignatz Mouse Discuss the Letter 'G'
The setting has Krazy doing the serving and the cooking at a diner, flipping pan-cakes as Ignatz enters to ask for "goose giblets 'n gravy." This leads Krazy to show off some of his characteristic fascination with "woids;" while proceeding to fix the meal of his "dolink," he points out how many names that begin with the letter - oh yes you guessed it - "G."

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What Every Woman Knows (1934) WikiData IMDb TMDB
What Every Woman Knows
director: Gregory La Cava actor: Helen Hayes / Brian Aherne …
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.

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Smart Woman (1931) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Smart Woman
director: Gregory La Cava actor: Mary Astor / Robert Ames …
other title: Astucia de mujer / Mon mari et sa fiancée
A society man's loving, devoted wife, upon learning that he has been unfaithful and is planning to leave her for the other woman, strategically pretends to be having an affair of her own. The woman's friends gladly assist in the deception.

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Lady in a Jam (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Lady in a Jam
director: Gregory La Cava actor: Irene Dunne / Patric Knowles …
other title: Mademoiselle Palmer et son Psychiatre / 果酱女士 …
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned mine. The psychiatrist, unable to talk her out of it, decides to follow her out there.

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Womanhandled (1925) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Womanhandled
director: Gregory La Cava actor: Richard Dix / Esther Ralston …
other title: 戇叔儍侄 / L'Illusion perdue
Bill Dana, a New York City playboy, can't resist the flaming flappers 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 relatives follow him.

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Gabriel Over The White House (1933) Douban
Gabriel Over The White House
director: Gregory La Cava actor: Walter Huston / Karen Morley …
other title: 白宫风云
Newly elected president Judson Hammond is shown to be a lackey of his party, willing to follow the party line even if it's not in the best interest of the people. Showing off by driving his own car to a political meeting, he crashes at high speed. Comatose, he is not expected to recover. But on regaining consciousness, he is a changed man. Dismissing his cabinet and defying Congress, he assumes near-dictatorial powers in order to cut through red tape and institute sweeping measures to reduce unemployment. He even goes so far as to gently threaten nations owing the United States money from World War I to find a way to repay their debts by reducing their arms races. Having brokered this important safeguard for the world's peace, Hammond is stricken down, his work done. Written by Ron Kerrigan