At the same time, Cagney must hide his own neurotic girlfriend, played by Dvorak, from his younger brother.

The following year, Cagney appeared in Man of a Thousand Faces, in which he played Lon Chaney.

In 1959, Cagney played a labor leader in what proved to be his final musical, Never Steal Anything Small, which featured a comical song and dance duet with Cara Williams, who played his girlfriend.

Cook played his part a bit too well, and he struck Cagney in the mouth with such force, he actually broke one of Cagney's teeth.

Yet in spite of his genuine shock and pain, Cagney stayed in character and played out the rest of the scene.

* Actress Jeanne Cagney, who played the part of Cohan's sister, was James Cagney's real-life sister.

* Rosemary DeCamp, who played the mother of George M. Cohan, played by James Cagney, was, in fact, 11 years younger than Cagney.

After appearing with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike and James Cagney in The Irish in Us, she played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade ( 1936 ), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood ( 1938 ).

In 1981, Swit played the " Christine Cagney " role in the movie pilot for the television series Cagney & Lacey, but was precluded by contractual obligations from continuing the role.

He also starred in the short-lived but critically lauded 1976 period detective series City of Angels and the 1979 – 1982 CBS series House Calls, first with Lynn Redgrave, and then later with actress Sharon Gless, who went on to co-star in the CBS-TV crime drama series Cagney and Lacey with actress Tyne Daly ( coincidentally, one of the House Calls co-stars was Roger Bowen who played the original Colonel Henry Blake in the MASH movie ).

In one of her last film roles, The Secret of Santa Vittoria ( 1969 ), she co-starred with Anthony Quinn, and they played husband and wife in what Life magazine called " perhaps the most memorable fight since Jimmy Cagney smashed Mae Clarke in the face with a half a grapefruit.

Christine Cagney, played by Sharon Gless, was a single-minded, witty, brash career woman.

Loretta Swit was the original choice for Cagney played the role in a TV movie however she couldn't get out of her contract on M * A * S * H. During the first season, Meg Foster played the part of Cagney, while Tyne Daly played Lacey, the role she'd originated in the pilot.

He stars as Joe Bonham, a role previously played by James Cagney, Jeff Daniels, and Timothy Bottoms.

Cagney was cleared by U. S. Representative Martin Dies, Jr. on the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Congressman Martin Dies was investigating possible Communist influence in Hollywood in 1940 ; he in fact had a cordial meeting with Cagney.

Hawthorne is the final resting place of Babe Ruth, James Cagney, Billy Martin, Ernesto Lecuona and many other notables interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery.

It stars Doris Day as Etting, James Cagney as gangster Martin " Moe the Gimp " Snyder, her first husband and manager, and Cameron Mitchell as pianist / arranger Myrl Alderman, her second husband.

Martin Kove ( born March 6, 1946 ) is an American film and television actor known for his work in films such as Rambo: First Blood Part II and the Karate Kid film series, and on TV series such as Cagney & Lacey.

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.

Her life was the basis for the fictionalized 1955 film, Love Me or Leave Me, which starred Doris Day ( as Etting ) and James Cagney ( as Snyder ).

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.

For instance, the multi-talented James Cagney had originally risen to fame as a stage singer and dancer, but his repeated casting in " tough guy " roles and gangster films gave him few chances to display these talents.

In the interwar period the submachine gun became notorious in the US as a gangster weapon ; the image of pinstripe-suited James Cagney types wielding drum-magazine Thompsons caused some military planners to shun the weapon.

The studio's next gangster film, The Public Enemy, made James Cagney arguably the studio's new top star, and Warner Bros. was now convinced to make more gangster films.

In addition to Cagney and Robinson, Muni was also given a big push as one the studio's top gangster stars after appearing in the successful film, which got audiences to question the legal system in the United States.

Warner had signed Raft in 1939, hoping he could substitute in gangster pictures when either Robinson or Cagney were on suspension.

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.

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O ' Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft.

An acclaimed performance as the gangster Caesar Enrico " Rico " Bandello in Little Caesar ( 1931 ) led to him being typecast as a " tough guy " for much of his early career in works such as Five Star Final ( 1931 ), Smart Money ( 1931 ; his only movie with James Cagney ), Tiger Shark ( 1932 ), Kid Galahad ( 1937 ) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and A Slight Case of Murder.

He was one of the three most popular gangster actors of the 1930s, with James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson ; Raft ranked far above Humphrey Bogart in fame and boxoffice clout throughout the decade.

Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).

* Big Shot and Little Shot-A burly bulldog ( talks like James Cagney in some episodes ) and his short sidekick are a generic gruff gangster who are Chauncey " Flatface " Frog's rivals in crime.

The studio's second gangster film, The Public Enemy, would also make James Cagney arguably the studio's new top star, and the Warners were now further convinced to make more gangster films as well.

Instead, Lynn acted in The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), a gangster film that reunited him with Four Daughters star Priscilla Lane, as well as James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart.

One of his most memorable roles was as psychotic mobster James Cagney ’ s deceitful, power-hungry henchman, Big Ed Somers, in the gangster classic White Heat ( 1949 ).

Edward G. Robinson as gangster Vincent Canelli in Black Tuesday ... exhibits a sadistic bent rivaled only by James Cagney in White Heat.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Mother York, though perhaps her best remembered screen role was as " Ma Jarrett ", the mother of the psychopathic gangster Cody Jarrett, in White Heat ( 1949 ), which famously starred James Cagney.

While many of his early films were supporting roles in major films starring James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft, or Bette Davis, as well as leads or second leads in B pictures, often type-cast as a gangster, Bogart would later play such notable roles as Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, Charlie Allnut in The African Queen, and Rick Blaine in Casablanca.

He provided the story for the 1939 Jimmy Cagney / Raoul Walsh gangster film The Roaring Twenties, basing it on his own experiences during that decade.