jamescagneylove:With Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the early Stutz Bearcat car, the
jamescagneylove:With Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the early Stutz Bearcat car, the last of the beaded speakeasy hostesses, he was an image in the American scheme of things; of the Roaring Twenties and the Tepid Thirties, of the dust bowls and the bread lines and the gang wars. He is the saga maker of the hard kid who couldn’t be pushed too far. In real life, Jimmy is a gentle man, who draws and paints, reads, raises prize cattle, farms, is happily married, has much family. He still grins that crooked mick grin that made him famous. He’ll even lift his fists at you for a mock blow, but he was never the Jimmy Cagney he imprinted on so much film stock – just a dancer gone wrong. –Pat O'Brien on his friend James Cagney, The Wind at My Back -- source link
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