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...reports showed that not James Cagney but Bing Crosby was the biggest money-maker among cinemactors in 1941. His take from pictures and records: $400,640. His radio earnings were unreported...
Yankee Doodle Dandy (James Cagney, Walter Huston, Richard Whorf, Irene Manning, Joan Leslie; TIME, June...
With these attributes. Cagney manages to suggest George M. Cohan without carbon-copying the classic trouper. He has the Cohan trick of nodding and winking to express approval, the outthrust jaw, stiff-legged stride, bantam dance routines, side-of-the-mouth singing, the air of likable conceit. For the rest, he remains plain Jimmy Cagney. It is a remarkable performance, possibly Cagney's best, and it makes Yankee Doodle a dandy...
...Brothers Warner put about $1,500,000 into Yankee Doodle, and no doubt they will get it back. They are not likely to get Jimmy Cagney back. This picture is his last for a major studio. Following a Hollywood procedure that may become a trend, he has formed his own movie unit (Cagney Productions, Inc.), plans to produce his own pictures for United Artists release. Warner Bros, will miss him. For the last twelve years the cinema's most talented tough guy has been his studio's top money maker...
...Actor Cagney's 23-year-old Phi Beta Kappa sister (Hunter College, '38) in her first important cinerole...