Word: cava
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mary Pickford was sued by Director Gregory La Cava for exactly $1,653,750. After "temperament clashes," Mary had broken their oral contract to film Broadway's One Touch of Venus, Gregory said, and sighed: "I'm rather impractical about these things...
...Laude: Richard Walter Adami, (General Studies), Michael Patrick Cava, (Chemistry), Hugh Otto de Fries, (General Studies), Russell Lamont Harris, (General Studies), Irwin Leff, (Economics), Ellis Wendle Smith, (General Studies...
...Hollywood director is so free from executive meddling today as La Cava. The public likes his pictures (he claims never to have made a box-office flop), studios like his economy, actors like to work for him, and executives are afraid to brave his withering tongue. As a result La Cava generally gets a fat fee ($100,000-$150,000) for turning out a picture...
Unorthodox is La Cava's method of making a picture. He believes that the screen is not (like the stage) an acting medium, that a scene plays itself. La Cava begins a picture by throwing away the script, keeping the bare outline of the plot and developing it spontaneously around the personalities of the actors he has selected. If a scene rings true, it is right; if not, the actor should not be forced to play it. He writes most of the new script himself...
Closest crony and bitterest critic of Director La Cava, now 49, is another unreconstructed Hollywoodian, one W. C. Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...