{"id":3908,"date":"2005-11-18T16:53:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T21:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3908"},"modified":"2022-10-09T20:51:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T00:51:17","slug":"james-cagney-appreciation-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=3908","title":{"rendered":"James Cagney Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Who the Hell’s in It: Conversations with Hollywood’s Legendary Actors<\/a>\"\"<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Of course, he was like no other dancer: his straight-legged, cocky, constantly surprising way of hoofing — which is how he started in show business — was seen only in a couple of other films, not really very good ones. Footlight Parade<\/i> (1933) is the best of these, yet his manner as an actor and his grace as a performer no doubt owe quite a lot to his dancing days. He just moved eloquently, and therefore could easily have been a great silent star. However, he arrived with the talkies, and gave even the least of them a large measure of his boundless panache.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n