List of the best Gregory La Cava movies: My Man Godfrey(1936), Stage Door(1937), Gallant Lady(1934), Primrose Path(1940), Feel My Pulse(1928), What Every Woman Knows(1934), She Married Her Boss(1935), Private Worlds(1935), Unfinished Business(1941), Smart Woman(1931), Bed of Roses(1933), Gabriel Over the White House(1933) ... ...
8.0/10
Comedy
USA
1936
95 Minutes
Director
William Powell Carole Lombard Alice Brady Eugene Pallette Gail Patrick Alan Mowbray Jean Dixon Mischa Auer Robert Light Pat Flaherty Franklin Pangborn
socialite butler sister mother father protégé hysterical madcap confident new york city family home dump wealth employment family dysfunction unlikely romance class distinctions transformation love rise
A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye.
7.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
92 Minutes
Director
Katharine Hepburn Ginger Rogers Adolphe Menjou Andrea Leeds Gail Patrick Constance Collier Lucille Ball Eve Arden Ann Miller Ralph Forbes Franklin Pangborn
actress theatrical producer father dancer melodramatic rousing sultry spirited new york city boardinghouse nightclub theater acting friendship class distinctions ambition female bonding love rise fall
A chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Director
Unwed mother gives up baby for adoption and hopes to get it back when the adoptive mother dies.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1940
93 Minutes
Director
Ginger Rogers Joel McCrea Marjorie Rambeau Henry Travers Miles Mander Queenie Vassar Joan Carroll Vivienne Osborne Carmen Morales Gene Morgan Mara Alexander
husband prostitute alcoholic mother love interest grandmother disheartening quirky touching primrose hill house beach restaurant nightclub family dysfunction poverty marriage suicide attempt secret life accidental death
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.
6.9/10
Comedy
USA
1928
86 Minutes
Director
Bebe Daniels Richard Arlen William Powell Melbourne MacDowell George Irving Charles Sellon Heinie Conklin
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.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1934
92 Minutes
Director
Helen Hayes Brian Aherne Madge Evans Lucile Watson Dudley Digges Donald Crisp
student politician wife aristocratic lady amusing melodramatic scotland household ambition politics marriage of convenience romance family love transformation rise 1900s
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 »
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1935
85 Minutes
Director
Claudette Colbert Melvyn Douglas Michael Bartlett Raymond Walburn Jean Dixon Katharine Alexander Edith Fellows Clara Kimball Young Grace Hayle Charles Arnt
secretary boss friend daughter sister playboy frenetic hilarious playful new york city office household pennsylvania department store work vs. family ambition romance working woman family dysfunction rivalry
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.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1935
84 Minutes
Director
doctor partner psychiatrist patient sister wife tense dark uneasy asylum office hospital room household staircase mental illness psychiatry accident misogyny murder nervous breakdown
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."
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1941
96 Minutes
Director
Irene Dunne Robert Montgomery Preston Foster Eugene Pallette Dick Foran Esther Dale Walter Catlett Richard Davies Kathryn Adams Samuel S. Hinds June Clyde
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 »
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1931
68 Minutes
Director
Mary Astor Robert Ames Edward Everett Horton John Halliday Noel Francis
wife husband gold digger aristocrat bachelor adulterer lighthearted amusing melodramatic paris new york city manor ocean liner infidelity romantic dilemma love triangle schemes jealousy marriage love
A wife turns the tables on her cheating husband.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1933
67 Minutes
Director
Constance Bennett Pert Kelton Joel McCrea John Halliday Samuel S. Hinds Franklin Pangborn
A former prostitute, determined to reform upon leaving prison, falls in love with a cotton barge owner and must choose between him and her banker lover.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1933
87 Minutes
Director
Walter Huston Arthur Byron Karen Morley Franchot Tone Dickie Moore C. Henry Gordon David Landau Samuel S. Hinds William Pawley Jean Parker Claire DuBrey
president chief of staff secret police secretary of state lover gangster creative dark incredible white house washington, d.c. politics dictatorship crime visions divine intervention great depression transformation quest rise
A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Director
carnival barker exotic dancer sheriff theatrical producer friend madcap lighthearted hilarious new york city hotel office theater carnival broadway carnivals relationships blackmail assumed identity love interest love
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.
6.2/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1947
103 Minutes
Director
Gene Kelly Marie McDonald Charles Winninger Phyllis Thaxter Spring Byington Jean Adair Clinton Sundberg John Warburton Wm. "Bill" Phillips John Alexander Phyllis Kennedy
Leo Gogarty marries Margaud Morgan after a whirlwind romance just before shipping out to war. When he returns he is surprised to discover not only that his bride is not what she led him to ... See full summary »
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Director
Constance Bennett Fredric March Frank Morgan Fay Wray Jessie Ralph Lucille Ball Vince Barnett Louis Calhern Jay Eaton Paul Harvey
artist duchess duke artist's model steward emigrant witty amusing cheeky madcap florence, italy royal palace bedroom balcony benvenuto cellini scandal incompetency palace intrigue adultery patronage
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the duke.
5.6/10
Comedy
USA
1931
72 Minutes
Director
Hugh Herbert Edna May Oliver Dorothy Lee Russell Gleason John Harron Charles Sellon George Davis Robert Emmett Keane
Man takes his wife's stashed money and is conned into investing it in an oil well.
5.5/10
Drama
USA
1929
75 Minutes
Director
A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.
Musical, Comedy
1948
81 Minutes
Director
Robert Walker Ava Gardner Dick Haymes Eve Arden Olga San Juan Tom Conway James Flavin Sara Allgood
A window dresser's (Robert Walker) kiss brings a statue (Ava Gardner) of the Roman goddess of love to life.
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