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...unapologetic razzle-dazzle: a lyric Try to Remember by Harry Belafonte, a monologue delivered at giddy white heat by Robin Williams ("What excitement backstage-everyone's standing around in little pools of Perrier"), a dingbat piano solo by Dudley Moore, and film clips of such stars as James Cagney, James Stewart and Bette Davis, who then showed up at center stage to greet one another and an S.R.O. audience of 6,000 who had paid from $25 to $1,000 for the privilege of waving back...
...Cagney began his career as a burlesque actor in the early part of the 20th century, and made his first movie. "Sinners' Holiday," in 1930. He won an Academy Award in 1942 as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy." and returned from a 20 year retirement in 1981 to film "Ragtime...
Katherine C. Williams '83 and Reade L. Fahs '82, producers of the Hasty Pudding's 134th production. "Sealed With a Quiche," presented Cagney with the 16th annual Man of the Year Award before a packed audience at the Pudding last night...
Williams and Fabs gave the 82 year-old Cagney an engraved pudding pot and a large picture of Marilyn Monroe, with Cagney's face posted on--a reference to the actor's early career as a burlesque performer. When he appeared as a woman in the Keefe theater...
...short acceptance--speech, Cagney told the audience an anecdote about Jack Lemmon '47, a former Hasty Pudding member and winner of the Man of the Year Award in 1973, whom Cagney met in 1955 when the two were starring in "Mister Roberts...