Gregory La Cava(1892-1952)
- Director
- Producer
- Animation Department
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 began directing two-reel shorts. Graduating to
features, La Cava gained a reputation as a surefooted comedy director,
responsible for such classics as My Man Godfrey (1936) and She Married Her Boss (1935). La Cava was
equally proficient in other genres as well, turning out the dramatic
Stage Door (1937) and the bizarre political fantasy Gabriel Over the White House (1933). He is also supposed
to have directed some scenes in several of the films of his close
friend W.C. Fields when Fields couldn't get along with the directors
assigned to him, although there is no official record of this ever
happening.
