Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

Day subsequently took on more dramatic roles, including her 1955 portrayal of singer Ruth Etting in the biographical film of Etting's life, Love Me or Leave Me, in which she co-starred with James Cagney.

The film starred James Cagney, Eric Linden, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak.

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

The film vaulted him from fourth place to first in the studio's roster, finally exceeding James Cagney, and more than doubling his salary to over $ 460, 000 per year by 1946, making him the highest paid actor in the world.

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.

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

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.

Cagney in Love Me or Leave Me ( film ) | Love Me or Leave Me ( 1955 )

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.

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

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.

For the first time, Cagney considered walking out of a film.

Encouraged by his wife and Zimmerman, Cagney accepted an offer from Miloš Forman to star in a small but pivotal role in the 1981 film Ragtime.

The film was shot mainly at Shepperton Studios in London, and on his arrival at Southampton aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, Cagney was mobbed by hundreds of fans.

Despite its being his first film in twenty years, Cagney was immediately at ease.

The film used fight clips from Cagney's 1932 boxing movie Winner Take All, although Cagney plays a different character in the TV-movie.

Charlton Heston, in announcing that Cagney was to be honored, called him " one of the most significant figures of a generation when American film was dominant, Cagney, that most American of actors, somehow communicated eloquently to audiences all over the world … and to actors as well.

* The 1946 film 13 Rue Madeleine stars James Cagney as an OSS agent who must find a mole in French partisan operations.

The film stars of the time that starred in these films, playing both heroes and villains alike include Greer Garson, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Raymond Massey, Basil Rathbone, Walter Slezak, Dana Andrews, Don Ameche, Richard Loo, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Henreid, Richard Conte, Anthony Quinn and the most popular film star of the era, John Wayne.

Cause of all this commotion: squat, pug-nosed, balding, hopelessly ugly Jean-Pierre Bravado, a Bogartian figure, who plays a sadistic, amoral, philosophic Tasti-Freeze salesman in old New-Waver Fredrico de Mille Rossilini's endlessly provocative film, A Sour Sponge.

In the Disney film, the Dodo plays a much greater role in the story, and plays the role of Pat in Alice's infamous growth-in-the-house scene.

In the 2003 film Hitler: The Rise of Evil, British actor Robert Glenister plays Drexler, although Drexler is portrayed without his trademark spectacles and moustache.

Just as in the film, Stewie, as Mozart, plays a painfully simplistic tune while hunched with a brutish facial expression, ending with audible flatulence.

Though glamor and wealth certainly plays a role for only famous celebrities, most people in the sports and entertainments sphere, be it music, film, television, radio, modelling, comedy, literature etc.

After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress.

In his 1968 film La Mariée était en noir François Truffaut plays on this mythological symbol.

Such entertainment may include watching a film or theatrical production and other live performance such as circus, plays, musicals, farces, monologues and pantomimes provide cinematic and theatric entertainment.

The most notable examples in cinema are Laurence Olivier's 1944 version and Kenneth Branagh's 1989 film, both of which draw additional material from the Henry IV plays.

The film, accused of fascism, anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism, tells the story of the U. S. Army run amok in Iraq and brought into check by a Turkish soldier ; Busey plays a Jewish-American Army doctor who harvests fresh organs from injured Iraqi prisoners to sell to rich patients in New York City, London and Tel Aviv.

In the film, Grant plays a near-sighted paleontologist who suffers one humiliation after another due to the lovestruck socialite played by Hepburn.

In the film, Cooper plays a sheltered, intellectual linguist who is writing an encyclopedia with six other scientists, and hires street-wise Stanwyck to help them with modern slang terms.

Highlander is a film and television franchise that began with a 1986 fantasy movie starring Christopher Lambert, who plays Connor MacLeod, the Highlander.

When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film.

* John Ford Noonan ( born 1943 ), American actor and writer for theater, film and television ; authored over 30 plays during 1970s, 1980s and 1990s ( A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 1979 )

He followed this up with a critically acclaimed performance in Martin Scorsese's 1983 film, The King of Comedy, in which Lewis plays a late-night TV host plagued by obsessive fans ( played by Robert De Niro and Sandra Bernhard ).

Unlike " dome switch " keyboards, the pattern consists of two D-shaped capacitor pads for each switch, printed on a printed circuit board ( PC board ) and covered by a thin, insulating film of soldermask which plays the role of a dielectric.

* The $ 500 Reward ( 1911, actor and director, Early Sherlock Holmes film, Sennett plays Sherlock.

* In the 1998 film Sliding Doors, the skit plays a central role: James ( John Hannah ) exhorts Helen ( Gwyneth Paltrow ) to " remember what the Monty Python boys say ..."-referring to the phrase " No one expects the Spanish Inquisition ".

This plays on the long-established connotations of motels and illicit sexual activity, which has itself formed the basis for numerous other films, variously representing the thriller, comedy, teen film and sexploitation genres.

* In Jean-Luc Godard's film Le Mépris ( 1963 ), German film director Fritz Lang plays himself attempting to direct a film adaptation of the Odyssey.