Cagney
Cagney
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#1re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:46amI haven't seen it in years...but, yes!
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#2re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:48am
The timeliness of its release, just after the attack on Pearl Harbor in late 1941, helped the 'propaganda machine' of going to European battlegrounds overseas with a song that was a rousing theme song written years earlier for WW I - Over There. And a second song, You're a Grand Old Flag, contributed to morale-boosting, flag-waving patriotism and love of one's country. And it was the first time that a living US President (FDR in this case, played by Jack Young) was portrayed in a motion picture.
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#3re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:48amCan't help but get a little crush when you watch him sing and dance. What a spirit!
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#4re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:51am
It was a tour de force performance.
And I love that the movie was shamelessly patriotic...
Chloe
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/04
#5re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 12:56amHe's one of my favorite all-time actors. As you may know, he started out in vaudeville and always considered himself a song and dance man at heart. "Yankee Doodle Dandy" is great, but I think I like his early gangster pictures even more - "Public Enemy," "Angels with Dirty Faces" and so on.
The Grovers Corners Yenta
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
#6re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 9:47amYankee Doodle Dandy is one of my most favorite Cagney films of all time. I think the man is a legend.
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#7re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 1:10pmMy partner is related to James Cagney. If I recall correctly, his grandfather and James Cagney's uncle were brothers.
popcultureboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/03
#8re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 1:20pmGlebb, as this is one of your threads, I was convinced before I opened it that you were just going to say "...or Lacey?"
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#9re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 2:53pmChris-TAYNE!!!
sabrelady
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#11re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 6:11pm
Quotes from Cagney and Lacey?
I've never seen one episode.
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#12re: Cagney
Posted: 10/18/04 at 9:37pm
I loved him in Mister Roberts:
(over the loudspeaker after Pulver has thrown his beloved palm tree overboard)
"WHOOOOOO DID IT? NO ONE'S GOING TO REST UNTIL I FIND OUT WHOOOOOOO DID IT!"
And in Ragtime as the police commisioner, when they drag fireman Willie Conklin before him:
"People tell me you're a worthless piece of scum!"
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