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Cagney worked with MGM on the Western film Tribute to a Bad Man, a role that had originally been written for Spencer Tracy.

He received praise for his performance, and the studio liked his work enough to offer him These Wilder Years with Barbara Stanwyck.

The two stars got on well ; they had both previously worked in vaudeville, and they entertained the cast and crew off-screen by singing and dancing.