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Show He Knows How to Handle Temperamental Stars THE FIZZLING OF A CLASH When Ginger Rogers (in striped robe) and Katharine Hepburn were cast at coils rs in "Stage Door," everyone expected a battle of temperaments. tempera-ments. Perhaps the girls wouldn't have fought under any circumstances, anyway, with Gregory LaCava directing, the expected battle did not come off. LaCava. chatting with the girls here, handles players so easily that they never suspect he Is giving them the psychological works. Gags and horseplay are his tools. Born In Towanda, Pa., of Italian parents, LaCava was a newspaper cartoonist and an artist before he went into films. The picture is more important than anybody or anything in it, he insists. He likes to have players with ideas express them. That's why actors like to work for him and, maybe, why K. Hepburn vs. G. Rogers was the temperamental fizzle of the year. |