Posts from WaynamoJim in thread „James Cagney“

Quote from chester7777

This morning, after watching the clip of Duke on the Dean Martin show, speaking about his baby daughter Marisa, I came upon this clip, which I had not seen before. I guess that James Cagney was the second person honored by the AFI with their Lifetime Achievement Award (John Ford was the first!). Anyway, below you will see John Wayne at that event -

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You will probably want to watch the other clips, of celebrities honoring Mr. Cagney.

And here's a GREAT clip of James Cagney and Bob Hope doing a dance routine!

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That second clip if from the movie Seven Little Foys in which Bop Hope played the great vaudevillian, Eddie Foy. And they got Cagney to do a cameo as George M. Cohan, the part he made so famous in Yankee Doodle Dandy. And in that movie, they had Eddie Foy Jr. play his father in a little schtick between him and Cohan playfully rib each other on who's the best.

Thought Cagney was at his very best in Yankee Doodle Dandy, White Heat and, Mister Roberts. But, I also liked him in The Fighting 69th, Roaring Twenties and, Angles With Dirty Faces. Funny, when you see the last two, Humphrey Bogart was just a co-star in them just before he went superstar. Read Cagney's biography years ago and it said that even though Cagney was a big star, he and his wife stayed away from all the glitz and glamour most of the time. To him, it was just a job that paid pretty good. Rarely went to parties or hit the clubs in Hollywood.