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 ...

'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...