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

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.

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.

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.

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

" 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.

Although it was still a risk giving Cagney the starring role, his distinctive interpretation of the character, especially his machine-gun speaking style, was now technically feasible.

Cagney, as a result, was portrayed as more glamorous and vivacious than partner Mary Beth Lacey, but could still relate to the world with attitudes that could be shared by people across the social spectrum.

But the Cagney movie still is extant along with the selected footage taken from Queen of the Night Clubs.

When James Cagney became president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1942 for a two year term, he took a role in the Guild's fight against the Mafia, which had taken an active interest in the movie industry.

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

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.

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.

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.