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Gregory La Cava (1936, 94 Min.) February 12, 2019 (XXXVIII:3) Gregory La Cava (1936, 94 min.) DIRECTED BY Gregory La Cava WRITING Morrie Ryskind & Eric Hatch (screen play), Eric Hatch (novel), Zoe Akins, Gregory La Cava, Robert Presnell Sr. (contributing writers, uncredited) PRODUCER Charles R. Rogers (executive producer) MUSIC Charles Previn, Rudy Schrager (uncredited) CINEMATOGRAPHY Ted Tetzlaff (photographer) FILM EDITING Ted J. Kent, Russell F. Schoengarth ART DIRECTION Charles D. Hall Academy Awards, USA 1937 The film was nominated for Oscars for Best Actor in a Leading Role (William Powell), Best Actress in a Leading Role (Carole Lombard), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Mischa Auer), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Alice Brady), Best Director (Gregory La Cava), and Best Writing, Screenplay (Eric Hatch, Morrie Ryskind). ventured to Hollywood where, in 1922, he would begin directing two-reel comedies, a production genre that was a direct National Film Preservation Board, USA 1999 competitor to animation. During this phase of his career, he The film was selected for preservation in the National Film worked with such comedy luminaries as Bebe Daniels (Feel My Registry. Pulse, 1928), Richard Dix, and W. C. Fields (So's Your Old Man, 1926 and Running Wild, 1927) He and Fields were also drinking CAST buddies. La Cava worked his way up to feature films in the silent William Powell...Godfrey era, but it is for his work in sound films of the 1930s—especially Carole Lombard...Irene Bullock comedies—that he is best known today. And though he did not Alice Brady...Angelica Bullock always get credit, he also often had a hand in creating the Gail Patrick...Cornelia Bullock screenplays for his films. He was nominated for Oscars for Best Eugene Pallette...Alexander Bullock Director for My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937). In Jean Dixon...Molly his career, he produced 56 films directed 174 films, including 41 Alan Mowbray...Tommy Gray animated shorts in 1917 and 33 in 1918. These are some of the Mischa Auer...Carlo other films he directed: A Quiet Day in the Country (1916 Short), Pat Flaherty...Mike Flaherty A Tankless Job (1917 Short), Der Great Bear Hunt (1917 Short), Robert Light...Faithful George 20,000 Legs Under the Sea (1917 Short), White Hope (1917 Short), He Tries His Hand at Hypnotism (1917 Short), Abie GREGORY LA CAVA (b. March 10, 1892 in Towanda, Kabibble Outwitted His Rival (1917 Short), Der End of Der Pennsylvania—d. March 1, 1952 (age 59) in Malibu, California) Limit (1917 Short), Bullets and Bulls (1917 Short), The Spider began his entertainment career as an animator with the studio of and the Fly (1917 Short), Der Wash On Der Line (1919 Short), Raoul Barré. By 1915, he was an animator on the Animated Judge Rummy's Miscue (1919 Short), Snappy Cheese (1919 Grouch Chasers series. Later that year, William Randolph Hearst Short), Smash-Up in China (1919 Short), Where Are the Papers drafted La Cava to head up his new outlet for promoting (1919 Short), Transatlantic Flight (1919 Short), Swinging His animated adaptations of comic strips from Hearst papers, the Vacation (1920 Short), The Mysterious Vamp (1920 Short), International Film Service. As Hearst’s financial problems were Smokey Smokes (and) Lampoons (1920 Short), Judge Rummy in compromising legs of his media empire in 1918, La Cava Bear Facts (1920 Short), The Life of Reilly (1923 Short), Restless La Cava: MY MAN GODFREY—2 Wives (1924), Womanhandled (1925), Let's Get Married (1926), his other films: Sherlock Holmes (1922), When Knighthood Was Paradise for Two (1927), His First Command (1929), Smart in Flower (1922), Outcast (1922), Romola (1924), My Lady's Woman (1931), Symphony of Six Million (1932), The Age of Lips (1925), Sea Horses (1926), Desert Gold (1926), Beau Geste Consent (1932), Gabriel Over the White House (1933), The (1926), The Great Gatsby (1926), Special Delivery (1927), The Affairs of Cellini (1934), What Every Woman Knows (1934), Last Command (1928), The Four Feathers (1929), Pointed Heels Private Worlds (1935), She Married Her Boss (1935), 5th Ave (1929), Paramount on Parade (1930), For the Defense (1930), Girl (1939), Primrose Path (1940), Lady in a Jam (1942), and The Road to Singapore (1931), Lawyer Man (1932), Private Living in a Big Way (1947). Detective 62 (1933), Double Harness (1933), The Kennel Murder Case (1933), Manhattan Melodrama (1934), Rendezvous (1935), TED TETZLAFF (b. June 3, 1903 in Los Angeles, California— The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936), d. January 7, 1995 (age 91) in Fort Baker, California) was a Libeled Lady (1936), After the Thin Man (1936), The Last of noted Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer Mrs. Cheyney (1937), Another Thin Man (1939), Love Crazy active in the 1930s and 1940s. He did cinematography for 115 (1941), Shadow of the Thin Man (1941), Crossroads (1942), The films. Tetzlaff was particularly favored by the actress Carole Heavenly Body (1944), The Thin Man Goes Home (1944), Lombard, whom he photographed in 10 films. After World War Ziegfeld Follies (1945), The Hoodlum Saint (1946), The Great II service as a US Army Major he became a film director, and Morgan (1946), Song of the Thin Man (1947), The Senator Was directed 17 films from 1947 to 1957, most notably the film noir Indiscreet (1947), Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948), classic The Window (1949). During this period, he also continued Dancing in the Dark (1949), How to Marry a Millionaire doing cinematography, including for the famous Hitchcock film (19453), and Mister Roberts (1955). Notorious (1946), starring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Cinematograph, Black-and- CAROLE LOMBARD (b. October 6, 1908 in Fort Wayne, White for The Talk of the Town (1942). These are some other Indiana—d. January 16, 1942 (age 33) in Table Rock Mountain, films he did cinematography for: Atta Boy (1926), Sunshine of Nevada) was particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat Paradise Alley (1926), The Ladybird (1927), Eager Lips (1927), roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the Ragtime (1927), Polly of the Movies (1927), Temptations of a highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. At 12, she made Shop Girl (1927), The Devil's Cage (1928), The Power of the her screen debut in A Perfect Crime (1921). Eager to become an Press (1928), The Apache (1928), The Flying Marine (1929), actress, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation at Wall Street (1929), Mexicali Rose (1929), Hell's Island (1930), age 16, but mainly played bit parts. She was dropped by Fox Tol'able David (1930), The Last Parade (1931), The Texas after a car accident left a scar on her face. Lombard appeared in Ranger (1931), The Fighting Sheriff (1931), Men in Her Life 15 short comedies for Mack Sennett between 1927 and 1929, and (1931), Three Wise Girls (1932), Behind the Mask (1932), The then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage and Night Club Lady (1932), Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932), The Racketeer. After a successful appearance in The Arizona Kid Soldiers of the Storm (1933), Ann Carver's Profession (1933), (1930), she was signed to a contract with Paramount Pictures. Should Ladies Behave (1933), Fugitive Lovers (1934), Hands She was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress in a Leading Across the Table (1935), Lady of Secrets (1936), Love Before Role for My Man Godfrey (1936). She acted in 79 films, Breakfast (1936), The Princess Comes Across (1936), My Man including: A Perfect Crime (1921), Gold Heels (1924), Dick Godfrey (1936), Murder with Pictures (1936), Hideaway Girl Turpin (1925), Gold and the Girl (1925), Hearts and Spurs (1936), Swing High, Swing Low (1925), Pretty Ladies (1925), Durand (1937), True Confession (1937), of the Bad Lands (1925), The Plastic Fools for Scandal (1938), Tom Age (1925), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Sawyer, Detective (1938), Cafe Christ (1925), The Road to Glory Society (1939), Man About Town (1926), The Johnstown Flood (1926), (1939), Honeymoon in Bali My Best Girl (1927), The Girl from (1939), Safari (1940), Love Thy Everywhere (1927), Smith's Army Neighbor (1940), Kiss the Boys Life (1928 Short), The Divine Sinner Goodbye (1941), I Married a (1928), Me, Gangster (1928), Show Witch (1942), You Were Never Folks (1928), Fast and Loose (1930), Lovelier (1942), and Those Up Pops the Devil (1931), Sinners in Endearing Young Charms the Sun (1932), Virtue (1932), No (1945). More Orchids (1932), No Man of Her Own (1932), Brief Moment WILLIAM POWELL (b. July (1933), White Woman (1933), Bolero 29, 1892 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—d. March 5, 1984 (age 91) (1934), We're Not Dressing (1934), Twentieth Century (1934), in Palm Springs, California) was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn- The Gay Bride (1934), Rumba (1935), Love Before Breakfast Mayer, who was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including (1936), The Princess Comes Across (1936), My Man Godfrey the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles (1936), Swing High, Swing Low (1937), True Confession (1937), characters created by Dashiell Hammett. He acted in 96 films Fools for Scandal (1938), In Name Only (1939), They Knew and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a What They Wanted (1940), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941), and To Be Leading Role three times: for The Thin Man (1934), My Man or Not to Be (1942). Godfrey (1936), and Life with Father (1947). These are some of La Cava: MY MAN GODFREY—3 ALICE BRADY (b. November 2, 1892 in New York City, New Blessed (1945), The Madonna's Secret (1946), Plainsman and York—d. October 28, 1939 (age 46) in New York City, New the Lady (1946), Calendar Girl (1947), King of the Wild Horses York) was an American actress who began her career in the (1947), and The Inside Story (1948).
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