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Favorite Performance?


For me, it's George M. Cohan from Yankee Doodle Dandy.

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My top ten Cagney roles

1. White Heat
2. Angels With Dirty Faces
3. The Roaring Twenties
4. Love Me or Leave Me
5. Each Dawn I Die
6. One, Two, Three
7. The Strawberry Blonde
8. Footlight Parade
9. City for Conquest
10. The Public Enemy

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My fave performance comes from White Heat (1949) as the ultra mad Cody Jarrett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t4YiXWPBpo

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" You dirty rat ! "

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Well if he didn't he should have !

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He never said that! 😀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0MkIPGKdAk

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I have only seen Yankee Doodle Dandy, and he was terrific in it.

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One, Two, Three
And I love The Bride Came C.O.D.

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