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Crime School (Warner Bros.) is a mug of cinema mulligan stocked with chunks of such seasoned staples as James Cagney's The Mayor of Hell, Freddie Bartholomew's The Devil Is a Sissy, and the Pat O'Brien-Humphrey Bogart San Quentin. But what gives it a rich and salty flavor of its own is ingredients like the six young toughies from Dead End (Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Leo Gorcey, Bernard Punsley, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell) and a dialogue script that is often spicier than Dead End's. That some day this gang would wind...
...child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job. Damages asked: $5,100,000. Mr. Cox announced that if he won his case he would donate...
Something to Sing About (Grand National) is nothing to make a song about, but it returns two-fisted Cinemactor James Cagney to his theatrical nonage of 1924, when he was just one of the boys tapping routines in vaudeville. Though still unable to startle the dance world, he does unveil a new, more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with...
...obvious parallel occurred in the life of Cinemactor Cagney when he quarreled publicly with Warner Brothers in 1936, threatened to give it all up and become a doctor. Now, under Grand National management, free to create new roles, he is still most effective in the kind of thing he used to do. This venture into musical drama demands neither a repeat performance nor condemnation proceedings...
...busiest men in Hollywood last week was James ("Jimmy") Cagney, No. 1 portrayer of cinema toughs. The sympathy for the underdog which Actor Cagney developed in his youth on Manhattan's East Side was given point and direction by the late, crusading Lincoln Steffens. Long famed as one of Hollywood's brightest Pinks, Jimmy Cagney's public deeds have been nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan...