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...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 I went into a restaurant there was always some wag having the waiter bring me a tray of grapefruit. It got to be awfully tiresome." So which of his 62 films...
...quite. Frazier labors like a thief in the night-alone and almost totally ignored. His arrival ceremony in the Philippines barely lasted a minute. He sticks close to his suite where he peels grapefruit and plays high-stakes blackjack with his sparring partners to pass the time. On his first morning of roadwork, he found the Manila streets clogged with joggers; he was later granted special government permission to start before the national curfew is lifted at 4 a.m. In the afternoon, he retreats to his dressing room, which is decorated in the same red and blue motif that jazzes...
...Claudia Schneider got a bunch of people to go to Zum Zum's because she was in love with their jelly. The waitress behind the counter at Tommy's made a point of calling over to Jackie and Carle to ask them if they wanted the last of the grapefruit juice, and later she came over to talk and joke around with them...
Cagney is coming back. He's going to be on TV soon, after a long period of seclusion. The Public Enemy was one of two films that burst out in 1931 to start a tradition of gangster films. Cagney (with his grapefruit) tries to be tough. But the film shows his family, too, and the final scene when he returns home is always moving, no matter how many times you've seen the movie...
...like this," said the owner of a supermarket chain over his grapefruit in one of those flaked, weary Florida hotels. "We can't run our business any longer. There's got to be stability. It takes two years to plan and build a new store." Gasoline, highways, housing starts, employment and the price of wheat have all got to be calculated. That future is now chaos...