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Cagney's next notable role was the 1955 film Love Me or Leave Me, his third with Day.

Cagney played Martin " Moe the Gimp " Snyder, a lame Jewish-American gangster from Chicago, a part Spencer Tracy had turned down.

Cagney described the script as " that extremely rare thing, the perfect script ".

When the film was released, Snyder reportedly asked how Cagney had so accurately copied his limp, but Cagney himself insisted he had not, having based it on personal observation of other people when they limped: " What I did was very simple.

I just slapped my foot down as I turned it out while walking.

That's all ".