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	Gregory La Cava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Cava's first employee was his co-worker at the Barré Studio, Frank Moser.
		La Cava also had the significant advantage over other studios of an unlimited budget: Hearst's business sense completely broke down when it came to his Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and the "living comic strips" they contained.
		Indeed, La Cava's main fault as a producer and director was that his cartoons were too clearly animated comic strips, hampered by speech balloons when the rival Bray Studio was creating more effective series with original characters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gregory_La_Cava (574 words)

	International Film Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The supervisor was Gregory La Cava, who had animated for the Raoul Barré studio.
		La Cava was given director credit for all of the IFS cartoons.
		IFS cartoons were the first comic strip properties to give proper credit to the director and animators, as opposed to just the creator of the comic (their credit was in tiny print on the screen, but it was there).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Film_Service (844 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Gregory La Cava
		La Cava's present-day invisibility was not always the case.
		La Cava was widely recognized during his greatest decade the 1930s —; as a strong, in some ways unique filmmaker, capable of creating commercial hits that were also critical and artistic successes.
		La Cava added an unusual aural track to the scene, with distorted voices that once praised Leeds’ performances echoing eerily as signs of her madness on the soundtrack.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /44/lacava.htm (2520 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Stage Door
		La Cava had no use for the source material, an anti-Hollywood play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber which preached the superiority of the legitimate theater, and so he started from scratch and used what he had: his one-of-a-kind cast.
		This is a classic Hepburn role, and La Cava understands what works for her, just as he knew better than anyone else how to handle the problematic Rogers.
		La Cava shows that life goes on, and even repeats itself, as a new girl shows up at the club.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1011 (1253 words)

	Retrospective of a Comedic Master (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		La Cava was that rare maverick free-lancer, whose singular skill as a writer and director made him an easy hire by every major studio for nearly thirty years.
		La Cava was an observant genius of human beings and basically took the personal essence of his performers, which emerged in morning, improvisation-filled rehearsals, which he would then shoot in the afternoons.
		La Cava was a heavy drinker, which probably accounted for the looseness of his imagination, as well as his professional downfall.
	www.gaycitynews.com /gcn_430/retrospectiveofacomedian.html (1427 words)

	Morphizm.com -- Forgotten Master: Gregory La Cava
		La Cava was widely recognized during his greatest decade -- the 1930s -- as a strong, in some ways unique filmmaker, capable of creating commercial hits that were also critical and artistic successes.
		La Cava differentiated between intellectual actors who had difficulty being “real” -- he called them “dressed-up puppets” -- and “real actors” who could forget themselves and fully engage with the character they played.
		La Cava shows their anti-social, sometimes violent behavior, but justifies it as a not unreasonable response to an impossible environment of uncaring wealth (She Married Her Boss) or dire poverty (Primrose Path).
	www.morphizm.com /recommends/film/gary_lacava.html (3130 words)

	Gregory La Cava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gregory La Cava (March 10, 1892 - March 1, 1952) was an American filmdirector of the 1930's.
		Gregory La Cava andmost of the IFS staff got jobs with John Terry's studio (no surprise, since John Terry himself was an IFS alumnus).
		By 1922, Gregory La Cava had become a live-action director of two-reel comedies, the direct competitor to animated films.Among the comedians he directed in the silent era were Richard Dix, Bebe Daniels (Feel My Pulse, 1928),and W.
	www.therfcc.org /gregory-la-cava-115080.html (422 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions Schedule \| Film and Media \| 2005 \| Gregory La Cava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		La Cava’s depictions of class warfare and sexual subversion are populated by a rogue’s gallery of fast-talking, pie-eyed schemers.
		In La Cava’s wry, cynical look at sexual politics and marital strife, Astor plays a shrewd wife who gives her philandering husband a taste of his own medicine, organizing a weekend with his mistress, his mistress’s mother, and a raffish English lord who provokes fits of jealousy.
		La Cava’s hysterical comedy is filled with sterling performances and ingenious gags, including a slow-motion sequence involving rumrunners high on chloroform.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/film_media/2005/GregoryLaCava.html (1795 words)

	Gregory La Cava -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gregory La Cava (March 10, 1892 – March 1, 1952) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American (The person who directs the making of a film) film director of the (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s.
		He was apparently aware of this fault, and he had his animators study (English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)) Charlie Chaplin films to improve their timing and characterization.
		Gregory died on March 1, 1952, in (Click link for more info and facts about Malibu, California) Malibu, California.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/gregory_la_cava.htm (834 words)

	village voice > film > Gregory La Cava by Melissa Anderson
		La Cava drove studio heads crazy, pledging no fealty to the script and often encouraging overlapping dialogue and improvisation—tonic for actors like Rogers, Carole Lombard, and William Powell.
		La Cava always sides with the fast-talking dames, no matter how venal their schemes.
		When the distaff protag is a genteel lady, as in Smart Woman (1931), she may not have zippy ripostes, but she's still quick to turn the tables on her philandering hubby.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0529,anderson,66018,20.html (384 words)

	NIAF MileStones
		Italin American Cartoonists and Illustrators - The influence of Gregory La Cava and others in the field.
		Cartoons were part of the popular culture well before the beginning of mass immigration in the 1880s.
		Gregory La Cava was a pioneer in animation who trained others who became legendary in the field.
	www.niaf.org /milestones/year_1921.asp (205 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Gregory La Cava
		Although former cartoonist Gregory La Cava's comedies earned him a notable reputation behind the camera, he also crafted remarkable dramas like Gabriel Over the White House (1933) and The Affairs of Cellini (1934), both testaments to the director's largely underappreciated diversity.
		Quickly following with the memorable drama Stage Door 1937, La Cava was at the peak of his career when he received Best Director nominations from the Academy for both features.
		La Cava died of a heart attack four years later in Malibu, CA.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/74465/bio.jhtml (292 words)

	Al servicio de las damas (1936) de Gregory La Cava - El Criticon
		LA COSA MAS DULCE (2002) Director: Roger Kumble Intérpretes:...
		Un clásico de la screwball comedy dirigido por el injustamente menospreciado Gregory La Cava, gran director de actores dotado de un refinado toque en su sintaxis fílmica.
		En 'Al servicio de las damas', adaptación de la historia de Eric Hatch "1101 Park Avenue", La Cava aborda una comedia de tintes sociales realizada en plena época de la depresión económica estadounidense en la cual se intenta primar más el valor del ser que el de parecer y el del sentimentalismo sobre el materialismo.
	www.alohacriticon.com /elcriticon/article392.html (240 words)

	Gregory La Cava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		La Cava was known for his ability to overcome weak scripts with his vitality and comic instinct and for his knack of drawing superior performances from actors.
		The film was completed by William A. Seiter, who received sole screen credit for the 1948 release.
		La Cava tried unsuccessfully for breach of contract and never directed another film.
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho/lacava_g.htm (113 words)

	MDMyMan Godfrey
		The original version was called “Irene, the Stubborn Girl” and the heroine was “the dumbest girl who ever ‘came out’ at the Waldorf.” Hatch’s other major film credit was the script for the supernatural comedy Topper, and he was a staff writer on the New Yorker, although he is largely forgotten today.
		La Cava re-wrote the script extensively on the set, a practice viewed with suspicion by movie studio executives.
		Forced to support his mother and siblings, La Cava became a newspaper cartoonist, and then part of the team bringing animated versions of popular comic strips like “The Katzenjammer Kids” to the screen.
	www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDMyManGodfrey.htm (1474 words)

	slant // magazine.com: DVD Review - Stage Door
		If you listen closely to Stage Door—and some have made a religion of it—you might be surprised to find that underneath the wisecracks and snarky camaraderie of these extraordinary women lies the wintry humor of Samuel Beckett.
		Stage Door has fared better than most films from its time in that the film's nitrate negative wasn't found in a state of disrepair somewhere inside Gregory La Cava's basement.
		Still, the quality of the image on this DVD edition of the classic film suggests something was amiss with the print (or video master) from which the transfer was struck: Dirt and specks are noticeable throughout and from time to time it looks as if the stock was run through barbed wire.
	www.slantmagazine.com /dvd/dvd_review.asp?ID=568 (1440 words)

	Gregory La Cava Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Stage Door (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Staging a film around a group of struggling actors is a large subgenre to itself in '30s cinema (often musicals, and specifically the Busby Berkeley ouerve), and one of the best is Gregory La Cava's 1937 Stage Door.
		Rogers and Ball deliver delicious bon mots throughout, and under direction from Gregory La Cava (best known for his masterpiece My Man Godfrey), the zingers singe.
		La Cava, one of the era's more underrated directors, began doing comics strips and moved on to animated two-reelers.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/stagedoor.q.shtml (393 words)

	Gregory La Cava Posters / Allposters Art Prints Posters Movies > People > ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		We feature over two centuries of artists and major art movements which influenced the history of art throughout the world, from the Hudson River School of landscape painting through American Impressionism, Illustration and the decorative arts, American folk art, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
		Pierre Auguste Renoir's painting, Le Moulin de la Galette is a study in impressionism.
		The scene is of working class people enjoying the leisure of a Sunday afternoon.
	www.aposters.info /movies/c45195-gregory-la-cava-allposters.html (1552 words)

	Director Gregory La Cava's Retrospective at Museum of Modern Art
		Fifth Avenue Girl is typical of La Cava’s comic incisiveness, a portrait of a rich but joyless businessman (Walter Connolly) who works so hard his butler (the peerlessly prissy Franklin Pangborn) has to identify the green stuff outside his penthouse window as Central Park.
		One gleaming treasure in the MoMA series is 1932’s The Half-Naked Truth, starring Lupe Velez as a carnival hoochie-coochie girl who becomes the toast of Broadway with her randy wiggling and the publicity wangled by her nonstop manager: Lee Tracy’s Jimmy Bates is a devilish dervish of a performance.
		La Cava and his co-writers gave Jimmy a marvelously cynical speech that can stand as a critique of media and audiences even unto today.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/movies/features/12361 (458 words)

	Amazon.com: My Man Godfrey (Colorized / Black and White) (1936): DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Director Gregory La Cava deftly balances satire, romance, and social comment in this 1936 classic, which echoes Frank Capra in its Depression-era subtext.
		When Irene wins a society scavenger hunt (and atypically trumps her scheming sister) by producing a "lost man," a seeming tramp named Godfrey (William Powell), all their lives are transformed.
		Gregory La Cava directed a wonderful movie that is as relevant today (with the Forgotten Man concept) as it was in 1936.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007IO73G?v=glance (1469 words)

	Stage Door DVD at Video Universe
		Director Gregory La Cava's film centers around haughty Terry Randall, who comes from a moneyed family, and is also the newest boarder.
		Director Gregory La Cava, Morrie Ryskind (who began working on the script just before filming began), and the cast improvised scenes in the mornings.
		The movie was made in sequence, allowing La Cava and Ryskind to figure out the twists of story by considering how their characters would react to different situations.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/6816443/a/Stage+Door.htm (763 words)

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	Gregory La Cava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Heast still wanted his characters animated, so he licensed various studios to continue the IFS series.
		Among the comedians he directed in the silent era were Richard Dix, Bebe Daniels (Feel My Pulse, 1928), and W.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/gregory_la_cava (557 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| My Man Godfrey
		Director Gregory La Cava achieves this through repeated crossings of class lines.
		Repeatedly, La Cava and company serve up the rich as silly, frivolous, childlike, and trivial, while the poor are strong, dignified, generous, and compassionate.
		Mentions were also given to Gregory La Cava for Director and Eric Hatch and Morris Ryskind for Screenplay.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /35/mymangodfrey.html (1040 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The flaw is that it never delivers on the satire it starts with, dissolving into Cinderella fantasy along the way.
		But the leads are so impeccable that the seam never shows and the greatly underrated La Cava directs with precision.
		Gregory La Cava (based on the story "1101 Park Avenue" by Eric Hatch)
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=8000 (347 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Stage Door (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sassy comedy and sober life lessons are wonderfully mixed by the underrated director Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey), who captures the brashness of '30s female chatter in a much pleasanter way than the more famous The Women.
		Director Gregory La Cava successfully pulls together a strong-willed cast that includes Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Eve...
		Director Gregory La Cava's astute perceptions about stage folk and their ragged existence beyond the footlights provides deeper insight and juicier vignettes than one might expect.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0006Z2KYS (718 words)

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