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1. My Man Godfrey (1936)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick
Votes: 26,440
2. Stage Door (1937)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, Gail Patrick
Votes: 9,005
3. Running Wild (I) (1927)
68 min | Comedy
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian, Claude Buchanan
Votes: 259
4. Gallant Lady (1933)
84 min | Drama
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ann Harding, Clive Brook, Otto Kruger, Tullio Carminati
Votes: 164
5. Feel My Pulse (1928)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell, Melbourne MacDowell
Votes: 228
6. Let's Get Married (1926)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
College football star Billy Dexter is prone to getting into public fights. His father demands he reform and sends him to mend his ways with a devout old woman who deals in hymnals. She ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Nat Pendleton, Douglas MacPherson
Votes: 31
7. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison
Votes: 1,772
8. Primrose Path (1940)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young woman from a family of prostitutes falls in love with a hard-working man, but when he finds out the truth about her background, their romance becomes jeopardized.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Travers
Votes: 1,793
9. Sharks Is Sharks (1917)
Animation, Short, Comedy
The Captain tries fishing without luck.
Director: Gregory La Cava
Votes: 12
10. The Pill Pounder (1923)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie is a small town druggist trying to wait on trade and play a social game of poker in the back room.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Charles Murray, Clara Bow, James Turfler
Votes: 12
11. One Touch of Venus (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Fantasy comedy about a young window dresser who kisses a statue of Venus, which then comes to life in the form of Ava Gardner. However, the problems begin when Venus falls in love with him.
Directors: William A. Seiter, Gregory La Cava | Stars: Robert Walker, Ava Gardner, Dick Haymes, Eve Arden
Votes: 1,642
12. What Every Woman Knows (1934)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy
The story takes place in Scotland, where plain Maggie Wylie's family, fearing she may become a spinster, finances young John Shand's studies in return for his agreement to marry her in five... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, Madge Evans, Lucile Watson
Votes: 437
13. Smart Woman (1931)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A wife turns the tables on her cheating husband.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Mary Astor, Robert Ames, John Halliday, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 484
14. She Married Her Boss (1935)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, History, Mystery
An efficient secretary at a department store marries her boss, but discovers that taking care of him at home is a lot different to taking care of him at work.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Melvyn Douglas, Michael Bartlett, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 720
15. So's Your Old Man (1926)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
An unlucky inventor's attempt to demonstrate his break-proof glass at a convention goes humiliatingly wrong, but his luck may be about to change when he runs into pretty young woman on the train ride home.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kittens Reichert
Votes: 242
16. Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, Arthur Byron
Votes: 1,395
17. Bed of Roses (1933)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Determined to reform upon leaving prison, a former prostitute falls in love with a cotton-barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Halliday, Pert Kelton
Votes: 995
18. Private Worlds (1935)
Unrated | 84 min | Drama
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 "man's field."
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson
Votes: 395
19. Unfinished Business (1941)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Small town girl meets and falls for a playboy type 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... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Montgomery, Preston Foster, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 320
20. His Nibs (1921)
50 min | Comedy
At the Slippery Elm Picture Palace, an old-fashioned movie house, various comical rural types are seen: theater owner "Theo Bender" (also known as "His Nibs"); his son, "Elmer Bender;" ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Charles 'Chic' Sale, Colleen Moore, Joseph J. Dowling, J.P. Lockney
Votes: 32
21. The Breath of a Nation (1919)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
As Prohibition takes effect, an irate wife throws away all of the Judge's liquor and sends him to a temperance lecture. While waiting for it to start, he tries the liquor substitute from the establishment across the street.
Director: Gregory La Cava
Votes: 171
22. Lady in a Jam (1942)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Romance
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.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Irene Dunne, Patric Knowles, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 320
23. Womanhandled (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
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 relatives follow him.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Edmund Breese, Cora Williams
Votes: 102
24. The Half-Naked Truth (1932)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
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.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Lupe Velez, Lee Tracy, Eugene Pallette, Frank Morgan
Votes: 643
25. Symphony of Six Million (1932)
Approved | 94 min | Drama
Boy grows up to become a successful doctor at the expense of family relationships.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Irene Dunne, Anna Appel, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 422
26. Living in a Big Way (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Musical
Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. Upon his return, he is surprised to discover that his bride is not what she led him to believe,... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Gene Kelly, Marie McDonald, Charles Winninger, Phyllis Thaxter
Votes: 520
27. The Affairs of Cellini (1934)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Constance Bennett, Fredric March, Frank Morgan, Fay Wray
Votes: 484
28. The Age of Consent (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Romance
College co-eds learn to handle the responsibilities of romance.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Dorothy Wilson, Arline Judge, Richard Cromwell, Eric Linden
Votes: 432
29. Half a Bride (1928)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Rambunctious Patience Winslow listens to a radio show about "companionae marriage" and decides to try it out, so she enters into a trial marriage. Her father, however, breaks up the ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, William Worthington, Freeman Wood
Votes: 46
30. The Gay Defender (1927)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Richard Dix, Thelma Todd, Fred Kohler, Jerry Mandy
Votes: 15
31. The New School Teacher (1924)
52 min | Comedy
The new teacher is brutally terrorized by the pupils and becomes the laughingstock of town. Then dramatic events occur which give him a chance for redemption.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Charles 'Chic' Sale, Doris Kenyon, Mickey Bennett, Russell Griffin
Votes: 31
32. Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
Man takes his wife's stashed money and is conned into investing it in an oil well.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee, Russell Gleason
Votes: 281
33. The Wrong Track (1920)
3 min | Animation, Short
Jerry's train encounters a cow on the railroad tracks and can't get it to budge.
Director: Walt Hoban
Votes: 23
34. His First Command (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A playboy is in love with a woman and enters the army thinking it will improve his chances with her.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: William Boyd, Dorothy Sebastian, Gavin Gordon, Helen Parrish
Votes: 52
35. Big News (1929)
75 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Carole Lombard, Louis Payne, Wade Boteler
Votes: 321
37. Tell It to Sweeney (1927)
60 min | Comedy
Luke Beamish is the engineer of the Isobel, an old iron steed, and Cannonball Casey handles the throttle of the Mogul, a modern locomotive. Cannonball falls in love with Doris, Luke's ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Chester Conklin, George Bancroft, Jack Luden, Doris Hill
Votes: 19
39. Saturday's Children (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Youthful sweethearts Bobby and Jim plan to get married, but Bobby wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobby, who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Grant Withers, Albert Conti, Alma Tell
Votes: 36
40. Swinging His Vacation (1920)
Animation, Short
Jerry catches spring fever.
Directors: Walt Hoban, Gregory La Cava
Votes: 19
41. The Tale of a Wag (1920)
4 min | Animation, Short
When a persistent mosquito annoys Mr. Givney at the New Monia station, Jerry gets the idea to tie a hammer to his dog's tail to swat the pesky insect.
Director: Walt Hoban
Votes: 62
42. A Heathen Benefit (1918)
4 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The Katzenjammer Kids, called The Pussyfoot Kids on the title card, cause trouble at a church benefit for the heathen by spiking the punch with rum, tricking the magician, who ends up with a bobcat in a sack.
Director: Gregory La Cava
Votes: 15
43. Cartoons on the Beach (1915)
Animation, Comedy, Short
The romantic escapades of two couples at the beach form the framing story for four animated cartoons.
Director: Raoul Barre | Stars: Oscar W. Forster, Maxine Brown, Gladys Leslie, Charles Mussett
Votes: 16
44. Cartoons on Tour (1915)
11 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A father and daughter each enjoy their printed "Grouch Chaser" cartoons, which come to life for the audience. Meanwhile, the daughter is secretly planning to elope.
Director: Raoul Barre | Stars: Maxine Brown, William Chalfin, Johnnie Walker
Votes: 83
45. Cartoons in a Seminary (1915)
Animation, Comedy, Short
Laura tells her companions at Miss Syntax's seminary that Jim, her sweetheart, is to visit her that afternoon. Shortly afterward, Jim climbs the fence surrounding the school playground, and... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Barre | Stars: Caroline Rankin, Gladys Leslie, Yale Boss
Votes: 23
46. Restless Wives (1924)
70 min | Drama
When Polly Benson's husband forgets their wedding anniversary, she accepts the invitation of Curtis Wilbur, an admirer. Her infatuation with Wilbur leads to divorce from Benson. Still in ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Doris Kenyon, James Rennie, Montagu Love, Edmund Breese
Votes: 10
47. Happy Hooligan, Double-Cross Nurse (1917)
Animation, Short, Comedy
Director: Gregory La Cava
Votes: 27
48. The Spider and the Fly (1917)
3 min | Animation, Short
Happy Hooligan is distracted by a spider instead doing his job chopping wood. The spider weaves a web stretching up to heaven so Happy climbs up. God tries to put Happy to work and when he ... See full summary »
Directors: Gregory La Cava, Wm.C. Noland
Votes: 23
50. Krazy and Ignatz Discuss the Letter 'G' (1916)
4 min | Animation, Short
Director: Gregory La Cava
Votes: 54