James Cagney was Hollywood’s 1940s rootin’, tootin’, shootin’ Fig Newton. An Oscar winner song-and-dance man as George M. Cohan in “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” his fame was playing gangsters. After pushing ...

'The Public Enemy' is known — and often dismissed — as the gangster picture with the Grapefruit Scene. A rock-hard hoodlum (played by James Cagney), embroiled in an argument with his girlfriend (Mae ...

James Cagney had a thing for grapefruit. He stuffed a half into Mae Clarke's face in the 1931 movie "Public Enemy"; in "Hard to Handle" his character, con man Lefty Merrill, went on an 18-day ...