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  1. @ yamit82:

    Hello Yamit …Hope you’ve been keeping well. (haven’t had a good argument since you became absent for a spell) Yes I certainly remember that series. But I remember seeing him when he was very young, maybe about 10-12, in a few very old pictures, He just looked the very same as later.

    Unlike many, even most actors and actresses, there was absolutely nothing unlikable about him. He was so pleasant, and super talented as well….not so usual in Hollywood…

  3. @ ANTHONY LEFCO:

    Thank you Anthony. I didn’t recognise her…I also saw her many times, as I did all the “Golden Age” stars. But in this particular cut she looks exactly like Ida Lupino…to me anyway. I just looked her up, and see that she was portraying Norah Bayes (a Jewish girl who married a goy. Jack Norworth). By coincidence, in my collectors records, I have Bayes and Norworth on an original recording of “Shine o Harvest Moon”,(I think about 1908-09) which they are credited with writing. I believe I also saw an old movie of their life, with the same title, many years ago which was more songs than acting..

  5. If by “Kelly” Gene Kelly is meant, and “O’Conner” refers to Donald O’Connor, both of them were far better dancers than Cagney. He was more of a vaudeville “hoofer”, mainly very energetic tap-dancing, whereas they could both out-dance him by miles, and were far better in style and elegance.

    (There were other dancers better than Cagney who became great actors, Like George Murphy for instance, also an excellent dancer,…. later Senator for California).

    That is to say O’Connor was, but Kelly, quite heavily built for a dancer, was more energetic than elegant, and his dancing seemed clumsier, taking much more effort, and appearing far less graceful than O’Connor, who was more like a more physical edition of Fred Astaire……… In fact because of this he could do things that Astaire wouldn’t attempt, whilst looking equally as good and as effortless…

    Just my opinion, having seen them all many times. Gives me a nostalgic feeling.

  6. Nice film clips. The top one of James Cagney and Bob hope and the bottom of James Cagney and frances Langford. I’m not quite sure what this has to do with israpundit but nice film clips

  7. I don’t know who the girl singing “Over There” is, but she looks like Ida Lupino as I remember her. A Great actress. She could also possibly be, but isn’t, Iris Adrian…..The singer just happens to resembles both,

    I suppose nobody these days ever heard of them….