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  1. “His coaches encouraged him to turn professional, but his mother would not allow it…”

    Never underestimate the power of an Irish mother.

  2. Fascinating bio material on Cagney.

    The last film I saw him in was “Love Me or Leave Me” (1955) with Doris Day. She’s the lead in a semi-true story about Ruth Etting. Cagney got a Best Actor nomination out it, and both actors claim the film as one of their best performances. It was Cagney’s last role as a gangster.

    More interesting trivia, for those who are interested.
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048317/trivia/?ref_=tt_trv_trv
    Spoiler at the very bottom.

  3. Cagney danced that way in Yankee Doodle Dandy (and in Seven Little Foys) because that’s the way George M Cohan danced.

  4. “Everyone have a happy, safe and wonderful Independence Day!”

    It’s already ruined: mass shooting at a parade in Highland Park, IL outside of Chicago. Add to that all the people saying they hate the US, and no one should celebrate (looking at you Orlando), the most depressing 4th I’ve ever experienced. We are going down a dark hole, and I don’t see any way out.

  5. Oh, good Lord. Why on earth would anyone shoot up a parade in a lakeshore suburb?

    It turns out the shooter at the mall in Copenhagen is schizophrenic, and complained his medication doesn’t work.

  6. Cagney was a/the developer of Emerald Bay, a very high class community in southern California just south of NewPort Beach. His brother was a dentist for several people I knew. Office in Culver City.

  7. Happy Independence Day to all Americans! And Liberty lovers throughout the world.

    Q: Do they have a July 4th in Canada?

    A: …

  8. Cagney was the embodiment of the American Dream, hardship being answered with grit and determination, applied to natural ability. For all those feeling despair because of the mass shooting in Chicago – by early accounts a deranged young man with Antifa associations – or because leftists with access to the microphone are broadcasting their hateful Fourth of July messages, well… all I can say is, the country and its freedoms are yours to lose, passively – or keep, as an American.

    Happy Fourth everybody!

  9. }}} attended Columbia College of Columbia University where he intended to major in art…

    He attended College in an era when very few attended college. Not so sure he was all that impoverished, by that light, unless there was something else involved, such as a benefactor or scholarship…

    }}} Harry S. Truman

    Harry S Truman

    No period after the “S”. That’s his actual middle name, “S”. It’s not a contraction.

    😀

  10. I recall what was, I believe, his last picture for 20 years**, “One, Two, Three” (1961), in which he plays a Coca Cola executive on a “family trip”, looking to expand company operations in Germany. This gets complicated by his daughter’s involvement with a West German communist-beatnik type.

    Light fun, as I recall, particularly enhanced by Cagney’s performance. Family played by Arlene Francis (the wife), daughter played by a very young Pamela Tiffin, and the boyfriend by an exceedingly young looking Horst Bucholz.

    Later this month would have been his 122nd birthday.

    =============
    He did a couple bits of voicework, then came out of retirement in 1981 for Ragtime, a movie about high society in the 19-00s centered around the Stanford White scandal/murder. That was his last movie except for a TV movie in 1984

  11. Harry S Truman:
    then shouldn’t his parents have spelled it “Ess” on his birth certificate?? 🙂

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