Private Worlds

United States

1935

84 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Gregory La Cava, Lynn Starling, Phyllis Bottome

CAST Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Joan Bennett, Helen Vinson, Joel McCrea, Jean Rouverol, Esther Dale, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Dora Clement, Sam Godfrey, Samuel S. Hinds

SOUND Hugo Grenzbach

Edinburgh (Retrospective: Gregory La Cava)

Director

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. —IMDb

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Anastasia

31Jan13

The biggest fallacy of the film is that madness is treated as temper tantrum - that is reasoning with the patients and patting them on the head. Thank God we have The Palm Beach Story for McCrea/Colbert chemistry.