Less than six months after the United States officially entered World War II, actor James Cagney's most acclaimed film — and you'll see why in the following Yankee Doodle Dandy facts — arrived in ...

Cagney, a dramatic new musical, follows the life of the legendary James Cagney from the streets of New York to his rise from a vaudeville song-and-dance man to one of the brightest stars of Hollywood ...

Aaron Cummings is about to graduate as a Philosophy Major. He has been working on pop culture-based projects on campus, including lectures and essays on art and entertainment. As a California-based ...

The year 1939 is often cited as Hollywood’s finest moment, as proof positive that mercantilism (the studio system) and aesthetics (good movies) are mutually compatible. Give a casual movie-goer half a ...

Public Enemies, starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, isn’t the first gangster flick Hollywood has made and it certainly won’t be the last. Detailing the 1933-34 efforts of the FBI to thwart ...

Some of you remember the movie star James "Jimmy" Cagney. Well, here's a story about him from Lance Johnson. Lance, owner of the Johnson Organ Co., Moorhead, and who often plays the organ at the Fargo ...

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 ...

The 1930s was the Golden Age of the gangster flick, the period in Hollywood history where almost every cliché and archetype about the cinematic mob life was created. A nation sandwiched between the ...

Jimmy Cagney won’t remain out here to campaign for an Oscar nomination for “Love Me or Leave Me”. He leaves for Stanfordville, N.Y., tomorrow because — he takes delivery of a sleigh next week. He has ...