Gregory La Cava Articles

Carole Lombard Best remembered for her light comedies of the '30s and early '40s, Carole Lombard is Turner Classic Movies Star of the Day on Sunday, August 28, as TCM's continues its "Summer Under the Stars" film series. Unfortunately, TCM isn't showing any hard-to-find Carole Lombard movies. So, don't expect Swing High, Swing Low; We're Not Dressing; the eminently dreadful (and compulsively watchable) White Woman; [...]

Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, Eve Arden in Stage Door Ginger Rogers: BACHELOR MOTHER, STAGE DOOR, VIVACIOUS LADY on TCM Schedule and synopses from the TCM website. Pacific Time. 5:00pm [Comedy] Vivacious Lady (1937) After a whirlwind courtship, a nightclub singer has to adjust to her professor husband's conservative family. Cast: Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, James Ellison, Beulah Bondi Dir: George Stevens BW-90 mins 6:45pm [Comedy] [...]

Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers in Stage Door Ginger Rogers is back on Turner Classic Movies on Thursday, March 24, with 11 films. Of those, I particularly recommend two: George Stevens' Vivacious Lady (1938), with James Stewart, and Gregory La Cava's Stage Door (1937), with Katharine Hepburn. [Ginger Rogers TCM Schedule] In Vivacious Lady, Rogers plays a nightclub singer who tries to tone it down for [...]

Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille FILM The Awful Truth d, scr: Leo McCarey Camille d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins The Hurricane d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett The Last of Mrs. Cheyney d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe Lost Horizon d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin Night Must Fall d: Richard [...]