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Angels with Dirty Faces (Cagney, Pat O'Brien, the Dead End Kids) and The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Friday and Saturday; call 5-4731 for information...
Yankee Doodle Dandy. Cagney's favorite role, says he in his autobiography. He good taste. You could watch this eight times a week on Million Dollar Movie and never get tired of it, especially the Cohan dance numbers. It's filled with stock Warner Brothers actors, not to mention the great Walter Huston and somebody who does an uncanny Franklin Roosevelt imitation. The movie's disregard for Cohan's real personality makes no difference. He was a patriot, and patriotism is never out of style...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Cagney) Friday and Saturday...
...looked like Jimmy Cagney...
...first vaudeville job offered little training for a future Hollywood heavy, observes Actor James Cagney in his new autobiography Cagney by Cagney. "It was a female-impersonation act," says Jimmy, now 71. "Six guys in skirts, serving basically as a chorus line, and one of the 'girls' was quitting. I filled the vacancy." Cagney, who eventually grew from vaudeville chorine to cinema mobster, says he never felt quite at home with his tough-guy image. That famous grapefruit-in-the-face scene with Mae Clarke in The Public Enemy (1931), he complains, followed him for years: "Invariably, whenever...