...in that hat, as Bogart said, but give Bogie a moustache and he looks just like Paladin!
shareCagney just didn't "fit the suit" of a cowboy. He was too short and too Irish. Not that there weren't any short Irish cowboys, but it just didn't work on screen.
share...in that hat, as Bogart said, but give Bogie a moustache and he looks just like Paladin!
I think I'd rather look like Paladin. As to Bogart, in a western, I keep thinking about that Rodgers and Hart song "Way Out West on West End Avenue", where Bogie was brought up in Manhattan.
cinefreak
Just the notion of seeing any of the Warner Bros. gang (and that includes Rosemary Lane) in Western mode is disconcerting. Somehow Bette Davis and Edward G. Robinson managed to escape such shenanigans. Yes, I know Errol Flynn made many oaters, but I don't include him. Warner Brothers "types" belong in big cities in tanklike autos, wearing evening gowns and double-breasted tuxes, snap brim fedoras for the guys and cloche hats for the gals.
May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?
Quite true. I belong to a Facebook group dedicated to Warner's movies of the 30s and 40s. There was recent conjecture on what the result would have been like if Cagney (as originally planned) was cast as Robin Hood.
cinefreak
I'll have to visit that page. Recently, I've watched nine Warners films in a row (MARKED WOMAN, RACKET BUSTERS, et al). I've been talking out of the side of my mouth and calling people "Pappy" and Toots."
May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?
'll have to visit that page. Recently, I've watched nine Warners films in a row (MARKED WOMAN, RACKET BUSTERS, et al). I've been talking out of the side of my mouth and calling people "Pappy" and Toots."
When someone tells you something interesting do you respond by saying, "Say!" and stretching the word out for 4 seconds?
cinefreak
Very good!
I'm just glad I don't smoke, I'd be going through two packs a day. Actually, my godmother WAS a female numbers writer (she's long dead, any G-men or coppers who might be reading this), so BULLETS OR BALLOTS is a particular favorite!
May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?
Okay, now, I really want a link to that Facebook group.
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Here you go, Snowleopard!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/227596657436284/
cinefreak
Made the link clickable.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/227596657436284/
I am a actually a fan of The Oklahoma Kid (gangster films then westerns are my favorites), and anything non musical of James Cagney. People seem to forget that forget John Wayne was @ Warner Brothers, Randolph Scott as well. I agree that Bette Davis (and George Raft who did his best work @ Warners), never did a Western, but Edward G. Robinson has been in Westerns. The Barbary Coast and The Violent Men (absolute classic) are just two, same for Cagney. Run For Cover (Classic) and The Frisco Kid. I know Cagney and Bogart were born in New York and Robinson was raised there (and of course, worked best in films that dealt with crime), but in my humble opinion, the greatest FEMALE Western Star in Motion Picture History was from BROOKLYN: Barbara Stanwyck.
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