... who lost her hearing aid. She had been eating a bowl of cashews while talking on the phone. Her tiny hearing aid was sitting on the table next to her. In the midst of her conversation, she mistook the hearing aid for a cashew and ate it. (1) Focus! Actor James Cagney recalls that in his day, acting was not as glamorous a profession as it is now. Actors were paid only slightly more than the average American. There were no labor laws to protect actors from long hours or hazardous working conditions ...
... 's first show business partner. Years earlier, however, she had decided to retire to a private life while Fred went on to world-wide fame. She kept her contacts in show biz though, and Harvey and Pat were often invited to "evenings" at her home. One night James Cagney was her guest and he regaled them with old Hollywood stories. The best night of all was the one when Fred Astaire, himself, came to visit. There was food and wine and talk and music and, as the evening wore on, Pat grew emboldened. She walked ...
... I paid the penalty to the full, but by heaven, sir, you don’t know the man I meant to be!” Peel the pathos of that. Go to another scene: an old movie. The setting for the particular scene is a tavern where the main character, played by James Cagney, stands at the bar drinking. His wife comes to the door of the barroom and calls to him, “John, come on home.” The man turns slowly and looks at her, and then says deliberately, “I am home.” Peel the sadness of that. The sense of imprisonment the man ...
... came to see them, and they became pretty popular on the vaudeville circuit. Hope really wanted the great actor Jimmy Cagney to play a role in the movie too. But Cagney had just won an Oscar for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy. He was famous. Surely he'd never ... 1994. It was right after American troops were sent into the desperate island nation of Haiti. A marine corporal serving in Haiti, James Applegate, is quoted as saying, "The hardest part of this mission is keeping them from hugging you." Isn't that a ...
