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    Ceremony date 02/08/1960

About
Gregory La Cava
Born:
1892-03-10,
Towanda,
Pennsylvania,
USA
Education:
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
Death Date:
1952-03-01
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Gregory La Cava

Gregory La Cava was an American film director best known for his films of the 1930s, including My Man Godfrey and Stage Door.

He was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students' League.

Around 1913, he started doing odd jobs at the studio of Raoul Barré. By 1915, he was an animator on the Animated Grouch Chasers series.

Towards the end of 1915, William Randolph Hearst decided to create an animation studio to promote the comic strips printed in his newspapers. He called the new company International Film Service, and he hired La Cava to run it. La Cava's first employee was his co-worker at the Barré Studio, Frank Moser. Another was his fellow student in Chicago, Grim Natwick. As he developed more and more of Hearst's comics into cartoon series, he came to put semi-independent units in charge of each, leading to the growth of individual styles.

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