Jimmy the Gent, Boy Meets Girl, St. Louis Kid, and Other Things!!!
I have seen the James Cagney movies Jimmy the Gent and Boy Meets Girl for the first time. The former is so funny and is now one of my favorite James Cagney movies next to Footlight Parade and Taxi!. The latter, however, is kinda weird and I wouldn't say that I really liked it but I liked it. I didn't really finish watching it yet so prepare for a very short review down below. I've just started watching The St. Louis Kid and so far, it's nothing really spectacular. (I'm putting that one aside for later.) In an unrelated manner, I've bought the 13th season of the children's show Arthur (finally!) on iTunes. (Yes, I still watch it but so what!? Arthur is for all ages!) You don't know how many times I went on iTunes to see if the 13th season was released yet or not (it's been on since 1996 when I was still in the age group that the show is suppsed to be aimed at, which is between the ages of four and eight, but older viewers still watch it).
It was interesting to see Bette Davis in one of her earliest roles, even though I'm not a big fan of her (the other Cagney-Davis film that I have seen is The Bride Came C.O.D). Anyway, one of my favorite scenes in Jimmy the Gent is early on in the film when Allen Jenkins comes into Jimmy Cagney's office--late--the glass in the door immediately breaks! That was so comical!!! Another favorite scene of mine is when Jimmy sits in the lobby of the office of his competitor--a snooty yet still dishonest ambulance chaser--and waits to see his former secretary Bette Davis. While waiting, he is served tea (he makes the servee keep putting in sugar cubes) and awkwardly drinks it (his stomach even makes a rumbling noise). That was so priceless!!! But wait, there's more: Jimmy is constantly served tea whenever he has to wait after being called in. (You can easily tell he's getting sick of the tea! But who can blame him; nobody wants to be served tea 100 times in a row!) As for Boy Meets Girl, Cagney was so weird and crazy in that movie. So was Pat O'Brien, but James Cagney was more flamboyant and therefore caught my attention. Since the two real-life best friends are both down-to-earth actors, it's hard imagining them playing such wild and eccentric guys. And the pregnant commissary waitress really does fit the dumb blonde stereotype. Another thing in this movie that caught my attention was that future US President Ronald Reagan (who was an actor in his pre-President days) played the announcer at the movie premiere. The main thing I liked about this movie was how it went behind the scenes of movies, and being a film student, I like learning how films are made.
(If you think that my life is uninteresting because I only talk about the films I've seen on here, then ur kinda right. The thing is, I don't like to share my personal life on social networking sites besides Facebook.)
