Old Hollywood
Cinema
1900-1979

Nostalgia is a seductive liar - George Wildman Ball

Another blooper reel (from Warner Brothers Studios) of actors cussing & flubbing their lines, this one featuring Bogart & Bacall, Jimmy Stewart, Bette Davis, Ronald Reagan, and James Cagney, among others.

“Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.”
-James Cagney

“Absorption in things other than self is the secret of a happy life.”

-James Cagney

James Cagney & Edward Woods dodge bullets in The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman)

James Cagney & Edward Woods dodge bullets in The Public Enemy (1931, William A. Wellman)

“My first part was as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn’t really approve of it, through.”
-James Cagney (via amana images)

“My first part was as a chorus girl in a show called Every Sailor and I had fun doing it. Mother didn’t really approve of it, through.”

-James Cagney (via amana images)

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )
And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt )

And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt ) (via)

James Cagney as Bottom and Anita Louise as Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935, dir. William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt ) (via)