Word: cagneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Captains also has a plot: an old story about some north-woods bush pilots (James Cagney, George Tobias, Reginald Gardiner, et al.) who have to learn that modern air combat is a young man's business. Cagney complicates matters further by appropriating another busher's girl (Brenda Marshall). He squares everything in the end by fatally ramming a pesky Messerschmitt 109 with his weaponless bomber-thus clearing the Atlantic crossing for the rest of the ferry pilots, who high-tail it for England while he drops dizzily into...
Gradually Rita was transformed from a Spanish heavy into a livelier, Americanized Hedy Lamarr. Despite her promise to do what she was told, she never wholeheartedly gave in to the painful process until she saw her great success in The Strawberry Blonde (with James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland). By that time Columbia's style expert, Maggie Maskel, had taught her how to dress, made her shapely, impeccably clad figure a fashion-plate fixture of the women's style magazines. She had even brightened the earth-bound pages of the National Geographic...
...James Cagney (Warner Bros...
...Bride Came C. O. D. (Warner) is a hot-weather hors d'oeuvre. It offers the curious spectacle of the screen's most talented tough guy (James Cagney) roughhousing one of the screen's best dramatic actresses (Bette Davis) through ten reels of slapsticky summertime comedy. The result, seldom hilarious, is often funny...
Bette Davis asked for it. Almost invariably cast as an indoor girl who prefers to do her suffering mentally, she pestered the Brothers Warner to co-star her with Rough-On-Rats Cagney. Their first get-together since 1934 (Jimmy the Gent) turns the vixenish lady into a foxy hoyden. Mr. Cagney ungently plucks cactus spines from the seat of her pants after she makes an awkward leap from their stalled plane, deliberately smacks her skull with his to drive home a point, slingshots her from the rear while she signals for help with a mirror, roils her finery...