Cassandra Gava - Turner Classic Movies

Biography

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Throughout her entertainment career as an accomplished actress, Cassandra Gava graced the silver screen many times. Gava started her acting career landing roles in films, such as the Henry Winkler comedy "Night Shift" (1982), the Tom Selleck adventure "High Road to China" (1983) and "Dead Aim" (1987) with Ed Marinaro. She also appeared in the TV movie "Condor" (ABC, 1985-86). She had...

Filmography

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The Ninja: Immovable Heart (2014)

Last Man Standing (1996)

State of Emergency (1994)

The Amityville Curse (1990)

Blood, Money and Tears (1989)

Mortal Passions (1989)

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Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Ought To Kill You

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You've Captured An Entire Regiment

Biography

Throughout her entertainment career as an accomplished actress, Cassandra Gava graced the silver screen many times. Gava started her acting career landing roles in films, such as the Henry Winkler comedy "Night Shift" (1982), the Tom Selleck adventure "High Road to China" (1983) and "Dead Aim" (1987) with Ed Marinaro. She also appeared in the TV movie "Condor" (ABC, 1985-86). She had a part on the television special "The Cracker Brothers" (NBC, 1984-85). Her film career continued throughout the eighties and the nineties in productions like "Blood, Money and Tears" (1989), "Mortal Passions" (1990) and the horror feature "The Amityville Curse" (1990) with Kim Coates. She also appeared in the TV special "Straight Up" (PBS, 1988-89). Gava continued to exercise her talent in the nineties through the early 2000s, taking on a mix of projects like "State of Emergency" (HBO, 1993-94), "Last Man Standing" with Bruce Willis (1996) and "Last Goodbye" (2004). Her credits also expanded to "The Golden Boys" with David Carradine (2009). Gava most recently acted in the Rob Baard action film "The Ninja: Immovable Heart" (2015).

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Ninja: Immovable Heart (2014)

Last Man Standing (1996)

State of Emergency (1994)

The Amityville Curse (1990)

Blood, Money and Tears (1989)

Mortal Passions (1989)

Dead Aim (1987)

High Road to China (1983)

Night Shift (1982)

Producer (Feature Film)

The Golden Boys (2009)

Associate Producer

Cast (Special)

Straight Up (1988)

The Cracker Brothers (1984)

Life Events

Videos

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) I Ought To Kill You After a mild opening scene establishing Kentucky “in the 70’s,” just about the whole premise, Elizabeth (Evelyn Venable) aided by Hattie McDaniel wants to elope with yankee Jack (John Lodge) who seems decent but her grandfather the colonel (Lionel Barrymore) doesn’t care, in Shirley Temple’s first film with Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, The Little Colonel, 1935.

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) You've Captured An Entire Regiment After the marriage of her yankee father (John Lodge) and rebel mom in the 1870’s we leap forward to introduce the star, (Shirley Temple as young Lloyd Sherman, in the year she turned 7) at a U.S. Army outpost where Robert Warwick oversees her honorary investiture, in Fox Films’ The Little Colonel, 1935.

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) My Dream Of Life (a.k.a Love's Young Dream) Shirley Temple as young Lloyd has conspired with servants Hattie McDaniel and Bill Robinson to assume a dress and bonnet that belonged to her mother, and advances her scheme to soften up her grouchy ex-Confederate grandfather the colonel (Lionel Barrymore), in The Little Colonel, 1935.

Little Colonel, The (1935) -- (Movie Clip) My Old Kentucky Home Widely remarked upon especially decades later, the first inter-racial dancing couple in a Hollywood film, and Shirley Temple’s first number with her great friend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, featuring the stair-dancing for which he nearly won a legal patent, The Little Colonel, 1935.

Bachelor Mother (1939) -- (Movie Clip) I Want A New Duck! Department store heir David Merlin (David Niven) is under-cover, attempting to prove to employee Polly (Ginger Rogers) that it’s easy to return a defective product, disaster ensuing, Fred (Frank Albertson) making things worse, Garson Kanin directing, in Bachelor Mother, 1939.

Panama Hattie (1942) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Dip Her In The Canal! Title character Ann Sothern with pal Flo (Virginia O’Brien) plans to impress “Gerry” (Jackie Horner), the snooty young visiting daughter of her Canal Zone-based soldier fiancè Dick (Dan Dailey), who’s brought butler Jerkins (Alan Mowbray) from Philadelphia, in MGM’s Panama Hattie, 1942.

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