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.

It was Tracy's involvement that ensured that Cagney accepted a supporting role, although in the end, Tracy did not take part.

Filming did not go well, though, with one scene requiring 50 takes, something Cagney was unaccustomed to.

His appearance on stage prompted the Queen Mother to rise to her feet, the only time she did so during the whole show, and she later broke protocol to go backstage to speak with Cagney directly.

Warner, however, did not think Bogart was star material, and decided to only cast Bogart in infrequent roles as a villain opposite either James Cagney or Edward Robinson over the next five years.

* James Cagney reprised the role of George M. Cohan in the movie The Seven Little Foys ( 1955 ), but agreed only on the condition that he receive no money – he did the film as a tribute to Eddie Foy.

Eight years later Hedda Hopper told Adams she recalled writing about him at the time and he replied by reciting back to her, " Nick Adams, gas station attendant from New Jersey, did an impersonation of Jimmy Cagney and a scene from Glass Menagerie.

Two and a half years later, in June 1954 his ship docked in Long Beach harbor and after a brash audition for director John Ford during which Adams did impressions of James Cagney and other celebrities while dressed in his Coast Guard uniform, he took his accumulated leave and appeared as Seaman Reber in the 1955 film version of Mister Roberts.

The actor James Cagney once lived in one of the buildings on Gramercy Park South ( East 20th Street ), as did Margaret Hamilton.

During his acceptance speech, Cagney lightly chastised impressionist Frank Gorshin, saying, " Oh, Frankie, just in passing, I never said ' MMMMmmmm, you dirty rat!

According to Cagney, Clarke's ex-husband had the grapefruit scene timed, and would buy a ticket just before that scene went onscreen, go enjoy the scene, leave, then come back during the next show just in time to see only that scene again.

Andre Sennwald, who reviewed the film for The New York Times upon its April 1931 release, called it " just another gangster film at the Strand, weaker than most in its story, stronger than most in its acting, and, like most, maintaining a certain level of interest through the last burst of machine-gun fire "; Woods and Cagney give " remarkably lifelike portraits of young hoodlums " and " Beryl Mercer as Tom's mother, Robert Emmett O ' Connor as a gang chief, and Donald Cook as Tom's brother, do splendidly.

Sure enough, the cancelation of House Calls was announced among insider circles just before upfronts, and Rosenzweig pressured CBS executives to relaunch Cagney & Lacey in the fall with Gless replacing Foster.

When nearly all of the Cagney & Lacey cast received new contracts in late 1983, La Torre was able to return as well, since 9 to 5 was canceled by ABC just weeks into the 1983 – 84 season.

The Academy Award winning Patricia Neal owned a home on South Water St in Edgartown, and James Cagney, Lillian Hellman ( who is buried in Abel's Hill Cemetery near the site of Belushi's grave ), and Katherine Cornell all found the Vineyard an exciting, rewarding place to live.

Cagney loved that there were no concrete roads surrounding the property, only dirt tracks.

These include the story that Orson Welles began work on a Batman movie in the 1940s, which was to feature James Cagney as The Riddler and Marlene Dietrich as Catwoman ; the persistent rumour that the rock singer Courtney Love is the granddaughter of Marlon Brando ; and the idea that in a famous 1970s poster of Farrah Fawcett, there is a subliminal sexual message concealed in the actress's hair.

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

Although Cagney turned out to be Warner's greatest prize, he was also the studio executive's biggest professional challenge.

When Columbia was preparing a screen biography of Al Jolson, many big-name stars were considered for the title role, including James Cagney and Danny Thomas ( both of whom turned it down ), but resident contractee Larry Parks was reportedly the first actor to be interviewed.

After Tom Powers ( James Cagney ) and his childhood friend, Matt Doyle ( Edward Woods ), grow into young adults, the film follows them as they gradually progress from small crimes ( such as stealing watches from a department store as children ) to worse crimes ( such as killing a policeman during a botched robbery attempt as teenagers ), after being hired by local bootlegger Paddy Ryan ( Robert Emmett O ' Connor ).

A controversial scene in which Tom ( James Cagney ) angrily smashes a half grapefruit into his girlfriend's face ( Mae Clarke ).

The constant ranking of her ' 80s releases of the ' 80s as moderate or minor R & B hits led Houston to concentrate on alternate exposure: having appeared in the independent film The Seventh Dwarf in 1979, Houston made guest-starring appearances into the mid-1980s in several popular television programs including Cagney & Lacey, Simon & Simon-a January 1986 appearance that featured her performing " You Used to Hold Me So Tight "-and Faerie Tale Theatre.

Later into the series run, a fictional celebrity and acquaintance of the Warners had revealed that the Warners were actually quite popular in the thirties, until, as he had said: "... they ( the Warners ) pantsed Jimmy Cagney ," at which point, " something had to be done ," so the Warners, who made even less sense than their cartoons, were locked away, also never to be released.

CBS executives hoped that Sharon Gless would portray Christine Cagney as more conventionally " feminine " and attempted to pressure the producers to remake Christine into a more " high-class ", snobbish woman from wealthy parents.

Cagney & Lacey was back into production by January 1984.

It was made into a James Cagney movie of the same name.

He later acted on Broadway and went into films, acting in some one-hundred fifty films over four decades Hollywood career and appeared in seven pictures with James Cagney during the 1930s.

At first, Zoltan was a failed experiment originating from when Igor accidentally had placed old movies into their programming stage instead of training videos, causing him and his gang of five to be lazy and to imitate old movie characters occasionally ( such as legendary actor James Cagney ).

Mae Clarke ( August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992 ) was an American actress most noted for playing Frankenstein's bride, chased by Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, and for having a grapefruit smashed into her face by James Cagney in The Public Enemy, both released in 1931.

The Public Enemy, released that same year, contained one of cinema's most famous ( and frequently parodied ) scenes, in which James Cagney pushes a half grapefruit into Clarke's face, then goes out to pick up Jean Harlow.

The plot centers on misfit Jerry Plunkett, played by Cagney, and his inability to fit into the unit due to a mixture of bravado and cowardice.

Cagney was also short and seemed uncouth, compared to the typical finesse of a more conventionally cinegenic actor like Woods, helping to establish Warner Brothers ' reputation for films that explicitly targeted working class audiences during the Great Depression.

A police procedural, the show stars Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless as New York City police detectives who led very different lives: Christine Cagney ( Gless ) was a single, career-minded woman, while Mary Beth Lacey ( Daly ) was a married working mother.

The series was followed by four television movies which reunited the characters Christine Cagney ( promoted and now working at the District Attorney's office ) and Mary Beth Lacey ( now retired from the police force ).

Daly acted out one of the two title characters in the legendary CBS police-procedural crime drama Cagney & Lacey, winning four Emmy Awards for her performance as Mary Beth Lacey, the married working mother.

In 1925, while working in a Broadway play called Outside Looking In, he and co-star James Cagney ( in his first Broadway role ) received rave reviews.

Her work in Cavalcade earned her a contract at Warner Bros. where she became a reliable supporting player, working with Paul Muni, Errol Flynn, Henry Fonda, Warren William, Leslie Howard, George Arliss, Humphrey Bogart, Boris Karloff and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Lindsay was cast four times as the love interest of James Cagney in Warner films from 1933-1935.

Cagney died at his Dutchess County farm in Stanfordville, New York, on Easter Sunday 1986, of a heart attack.

As a young man, Cagney became interested in farming – sparked by a soil conservation lecture he had attended – and during his first walkout from Warners, he found a farm in Martha's Vineyard ; owning a farm had long been a dream of his.

In 1955, having shot three films, Cagney bought a farm in Stanfordville, Dutchess County, New York, for $ 100, 000.