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Deborah Kerr and Peter Ustinov break into song during filming of "The Sundowners" in Australia
Mickey would have been great playing Jimmy, Jimmy's early years were quite colourful, they could have made a decent movie. I can see why they wouldn't make the biopic, what percentage of your average movie/theatre audience would know who Cagney was, let alone what movies he made. I'd love to see antoher actor who had Cagney's energy and skill.Western Guy wrote:Would not Mickey have made a great Cagney in a biopic? The energy those two shared. I recall at one point there was talk of Michael J. Fox playing Cagney in a TV bio. I can see that. Sadly the biopic, along with a discussed Broadway musical, never happened. Unlikely ever will.
I can't remember when I last went to the pictures except to a kids showing, I think it was for The King's Speech, I find there is precious little I want to watch on the big or small screen, the small screen I'm sure I'll get back into once the kids are older (too many interuptions to ever get into anything). Most of my movies are pre 1960 too.Western Guy wrote:You know Alison, I remember reading something quite sad shortly after Cagney passed on. A video store manager in New York was quoted as saying that even before Jimmy died he`d moved the Cagney VHS tapes to the back of the store since no one was renting them anymore. I`m sure that also went for other movies of the classic era.
Well, for me I`m simply hard-pressed to find anything worthwhile to go to the movies to see - or rent or purchase on DVD. For the longest time my wife and I have been trying to find a movie to get excited about, but just can`t find one. Would rather stay at home and watch an oldie on TCM - or one of my DVDs, a good 90 % of which are pre-1960.
P.S. Bogie looks amazingly happy in that photo, considering he tried every tactic possible to get out of doing CONFLICT.