During his career, Hale was noted for his supporting character roles in such movies as Up Periscope with James Garner, The Fifth Musketeer, The Lady Takes a Flyer, stock car racing film Thunder in Carolina, The Giant Spider Invasion, The Sea Chase with John Wayne, Hang ' Em High with Clint Eastwood, and The West Point Story with James Cagney as well as The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck.

Prior to the unveiling of that year's network upfronts, a CBS executive noted to the press that the cancellation of Cagney & Lacey was highly motivated by the jarringly tough nature of the female leads as well as low ratings.

Cagney gave a noted performance opposite Mickey Rooney in Quicksand ( 1950 ).

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 ceremony was attended by some of Hollywood's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Judy Garland, David Niven, Ronald Reagan, James Mason, Bette Davis, Danny Kaye, Joan Fontaine, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney, Errol Flynn, Gregory Peck and Gary Cooper, as well as Billy Wilder and Jack Warner.

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

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

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

" Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, John Ford, Garson Kanin and Katharine Hepburn called Tracy the greatest actor of his generation.

Cagney would lose to Spencer Tracy for Boys Town.

" As a staff writer on those programs, Oppenheimer wrote sketch comedy for many Hollywood stars, including Fred Allen, Talullah Bankhead, Charles Boyer, Fanny Brice, George Burns and Gracie Allen, James Cagney, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Bob Hope, William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, and Spencer Tracy.

He also humorously compared himself as an actor to James Cagney and Spencer Tracy and ended by saying that Big Top Pee-wee is " at least as good as Police Academy.

Around this time, unable to escape the stresses in his life, Morse would regularly pay trips to the movie theater, seeing the new movies of the day and quickly developing idols like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Orson Welles, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, while Alfred Hitchcock, John Huston and Billy Wilder were his favorite directors.

Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.

Golden Hollywood ( First row, left-right ) Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford ( Second row, left-right ) John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas ( Third row, left-right ) Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney ( Fourth row, left-right ) Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren ( Fifth row, left-right ) Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford

His film career began with minor roles in films dating back to 1945, including They Were Expendable ( with John Wayne and Robert Montgomery, but he quickly rose to young leading man status opposite such stars as Wallace Beery in The Mighty McGurk, Doris Day and James Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me, Lana Turner and Spencer Tracy in Cass Timberlane, Clark Gable and Jane Russell in The Tall Men, and Marlon Brando, Merle Oberon, Jean Simmons in Désirée, and Joanne Woodward and Sheree North in No Down Payment.

Media fans, have, on occasion, organized on behalf of canceled television series, with notable success in cases such as Star Trek in 1968, Cagney & Lacey in 1983, Xena: Warrior Princess, in 1995, Roswell in 2000 and 2001 ( it was canceled with finality at the end of the 2002 season ), Farscape in 2002, Firefly in 2002, and Jericho in 2007.

Bogart was gunned down on film repeatedly by Cagney and Edward G. Robinson, among others.

James Francis Cagney, Jr. ( July 17, 1899March 30, 1986 ) was an American actor, first on stage, then in film, where he had his greatest impact.

Cagney himself had the idea of playing Jarrett as psychotic ; he later stated that " it was essentially a cheapie one-two-three-four kind of thing, so I suggested we make him nuts.

Cagney was still struggling against his gangster typecasting.

His next film, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, was another gangster movie, which was the first by Cagney Productions since its acquisition by Warners.

While compared unfavorably to White Heat by critics, it was fairly successful at the box office, with $ 500, 000 going straight to Cagney Productions ' bankers to pay off their losses.

Cagney Productions was not a great success, however, and in 1953, after William Cagney produced his last film, A Lion Is in the Streets, the company came to an end.

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.

Day herself was full of praise for Cagney, stating that he was " the most professional actor I've ever known.

" The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, incensing Ford.

Cagney cut short his imminent tirade, saying " When I started this picture, you said that we would tangle asses before this was over.

The first thing that Cagney asked Lemmon when they met was if he was still using his left hand.

While Cagney was not nominated, he had thoroughly enjoyed the production.

Later in 1957, Cagney ventured behind the camera for the first and only time to direct Short Cut to Hell, a remake of the 1941 Alan Ladd film This Gun for Hire, which in turn was based on the Graham Greene novel A Gun for Sale.

Cagney had long been told by friends that he would make an excellent director, so when he was approached by his friend, producer A. C. Lyles, he instinctively said yes.

During the 1970s, he attracted former big-name Hollywood stars, such as James Stewart, John Wayne, Mickey Rooney, David Niven, Gene Kelly, James Cagney and Robert Mitchum, not on the basis that they had a film to promote, but simply because they wanted a chat.

Gless met with Cagney & Lacey producers again to consider the role, but while always having taken to the character, had doubts about joining for the fall of 1982 because, after House Calls, she " didn't want to make a career of replacing actresses ".

Love Me or Leave Me won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( James Cagney ), Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture, Best Music, Song ( for Nicholas Brodzsky and Sammy Cahn for " I'll Never Stop Loving You "), Best Sound, Recording ( Wesley C. Miller ) and Best Writing, Screenplay.

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.

TV Guide celebrated the show's return with the cover reading " Welcome Back, Cagney & Lacey -- You want them!

In 1956, Cagney undertook one of his very rare television roles, starring in Robert Montgomery's Soldiers From the War Returning.

Cagney was a very private man, and while he was more than willing to give the press opportunities for photographs when necessary, he generally spent his private time out of the public eye.

Bogart, for one, was very impressed by the death house scene and informed Cagney as such.

Shankly's public persona was that of a " tough guy " with the swagger of his favourite film star James Cagney but privately he was very different.

* Cagney and Lacey ( 1982 – 1988 ) Cagney and Lacey, revolved around two female NYPD detectives who led very different lives.

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.

Starring James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Joe E. Brown and an 11-year-old Mickey Rooney, the film had very mixed reviews for its " Americanization " of Shakespeare, but was a success on release and considered a classic today.

The role of the Ancient Elf was written with James Cagney in mind ; however, with Cagney being very weak in his old age, the legendary actor could not adequately assume the role, despite the fact that he liked the film's overall idea.