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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 5, 2019 13:58:28 GMT
Just because !  Essays, memories, videos, images … whatevers ! His screen debut seems as good a place to start as any. His mother is played by Lucille LaVerne who memorably appeared in DW Griffith's Orphans of the Storm |
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Post by bravomailer on Apr 5, 2019 14:58:22 GMT
Loved him in Yankee Doodle Dandy and One, Two, Tnree.
The wonderful closing to the former:
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Post by politicidal on Apr 5, 2019 15:07:21 GMT
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Apr 5, 2019 15:15:49 GMT
Fantastic star! He had a presence and charisma that most actors would kill for. He was also incredibly versatile. He could play heroes or villains, he could sing, dance, tell jokes but most of all he could wow an audience!
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Post by nausea on Apr 5, 2019 16:33:12 GMT
OH thats the grossest kid!
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Post by teleadm on Apr 5, 2019 17:05:19 GMT
"The trouble with Cagney is that he thinks he has some talent" those are the printed words (translated to English) from a weekly magazine, were you cut out pictures and put them in an album, from the early 1930s. I can understand the moral panic when an actor who played gangsters became a star, but most of his early movies was banned in Sweden, so it's strange he is even mentioned. The Public Enemy 1931 was banned offcourse, and wasn't set free until the early 1980s, and that's how dangerous Cagney was to the good blonde Swedish youth, while the fact is it probably could have been showed earlier if someone had given it a chance in the 1950s.  |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 5, 2019 17:23:38 GMT
This guy would definitely be a bad influence to impressionable lads in any location, teleadm Always enjoy your peeks into how Hollywood was viewed across the seas. |
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Post by biker1 on Apr 5, 2019 17:40:53 GMT
Seen quite a few Cagneys, but some of those Warner Bros. titles he did in the early to mid 1930s remain on my watch list.
favorite..
white heat (1949)
the roaring twenties (1939)
the public enemy (1931)
love me or leave me (1955)
man of a thousand faces (1957)
one, two, three (1961)
city for conquest (1940)
kiss tomorrow goodbye (1950)
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 5, 2019 18:43:39 GMT
Among those movies that have not been mentioned in the thread so far I liked Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). He was the highest paid star for the Warner Bros in the late 30s. I can say that he had quite a few very good movies under his name. |
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Post by teleadm on Apr 5, 2019 18:59:53 GMT
Cagney's most forgotten later movie? Never Steal Anything Small 1959, a musical with Shirley Jones.
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Post by Sulla on Apr 5, 2019 20:48:10 GMT
Cagney's final big screen performance was as NY Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo in Ragtime (1981). He was a professional and a class act right to the end.
IMDb Trivia
Jack Nicholson had to drop out of the film less than a month before filming began, leaving the producers without a name star. Director Milos Forman recruited James Cagney, who he had met the year before at a private dinner in Connecticut. He offered Cagney any part he wanted, including (facetiously) Evelyn Nesbitt.
James Cagney had been advised by his doctors and caregivers that making a film at this point in his life was very important for his health. The actor never flew, so he and his wife took an ocean liner to London, where his scenes were filmed. Despite his numerous infirmities, he stayed on-set during his fellow actors' close-ups to give them line readings.
Because of the presence of the ailing James Cagney, in what became his final big screen appearance, the movie was officially exempted from the long-running actors' strike of the early 1980s. It was the only production to receive that honor.
James Cagney objected to saying "nigger" in reference to Walker, so "buck" was substituted.
James Cagney was 81 when he filmed this movie. Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo was 32 at the time in which the movie was set.
This film reunited James Cagney, coming out of a 20-year retirement, with Pat O'Brien, his frequent co-star from the 1930s and 1940s. It was the last theatrical film for both of them.
James Cagney used a wheelchair at the time of shooting. Most scenes show him sitting. A stand-in was used for scenes showing him on his feet, shot from the back to obscure the stand-in's face.
James Cagney's memory was failing him, and cue cards had to be used.
If anyone ever asks if Cagney was in a film along with Samuel L Jackson, the answer is yes. This is it.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Apr 5, 2019 21:31:20 GMT
After Ragtime, he did make a made for TV movie; Terrible Joe Moran (1984).
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 6, 2019 12:49:14 GMT
After Ragtime, he did make a made for TV movie; Terrible Joe Moran (1984).   and here it is ! 
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Post by petrolino on Apr 6, 2019 15:20:32 GMT
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🎄😷🎄 on Apr 7, 2019 13:07:51 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 7, 2019 20:45:17 GMT
As a kid, in my Million $$ Movie watching days … I didn't like him as much as Garfield and Bogey. WHY ? Cuz … he parted his hair "funny" !   Don't bother asking ! I have NO idea what the problem was. Luckily, I got over it ! |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 7, 2019 20:56:23 GMT
As a kid, in my Million $$ Movie watching days … I didn't like him as much as Garfield and Bogey. WHY ? Cuz … he parted his hair "funny" ! Don't bother asking ! I have NO idea what the problem was. Luckily, I got over it ! The photo suggests he and Aggie Moorehead went to the same stylist. Groucho too, for that matter. 
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Apr 7, 2019 22:11:25 GMT
My favorite performance of Cagney, other than White Heat, was Mister Roberts. A little over the top, perhaps. But he was magnificent as the palm tree loving captain. His scene with Fonda over liberty for the crew was amazing. Loved his line when the native were coming toward the ship
"GET THOSE CANNIBALS OFF MY SHIP"
I would have given the best supporting actor to Cagney and not Lemmon
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Post by BATouttaheck on Apr 7, 2019 22:17:57 GMT
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 7, 2019 23:18:34 GMT
My favorite performance of Cagney, other than White Heat, was Mister Roberts. A little over the top, perhaps. But he was magnificent as the palm tree loving captain. His scene with Fonda over liberty for the crew was amazing. Loved his line when the native were coming toward the ship "GET THOSE CANNIBALS OFF MY SHIP" I would have given the best supporting actor to Cagney and not Lemmon The multiple directors - Ford, LeRoy, Logan - did result in inconsistencies of tone. Speaking of inconsistency, the volatile Capt. Morton furnished a quote upon which we rely around the house, and which comes in especially handy when we're commenting on the all-too-common flip-flops of politicians: "Never mind what I told you. IIIIIIIIII'm telling you!"
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