James Cagney was Hollywood’s 1940s rootin’, tootin’, shootin’ Fig Newton. An Oscar winner song-and-dance man as George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” his fame was playing gangsters. After pushing ...

James Cagney: legendary icon of studio system cinema and the most famous face of Warner Brothers for nearly two decades. On the surface, Cagney doesn’t look like he’d be one of the most memorable “bad ...

'The Public Enemy' is known — and often dismissed — as the gangster picture with the Grapefruit Scene. A rock-hard hoodlum (played by James Cagney), embroiled in an argument with his girlfriend (Mae ...

James Cagney had a thing for grapefruit. He stuffed a half into Mae Clarke's face in the 1931 movie "Public Enemy"; in "Hard to Handle" his character, con man Lefty Merrill, went on an 18-day ...

Despite only standing 5’5″, the late James Cagney stands tall in the annals of Hollywood history as the quintessential oxymoron­­—a cinematic gangster who was a song-and-dance-man. With a career that ...

‘Cagney’ musical’s chance at Broadway may be decided in Utah When Robert Creighton was in acting school in New York, a teacher said to him, “You remind me of Jimmy Cagney.” That comment prompted ...

James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys". In 1999, the American Film ...

James Francis Cagney, Jr. was an American film actor. Although he won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of roles, he is best remembered for playing "tough guys". In 1999, the American Film ...