James Cagney and Mae Clark in the 1931 film "The Public Enemy" with the famous "grapefruit in the face" scene...One of the first of the Warner Brothers` long line of gangster flicks, and which also put James Cagney on the map...Cagney was born in 1899, the same year as Bogart was born...In real life, he really did have experience as a street fighter and his father was a bartender, as well as a boxer,,,Cagney was raised in New York City and he actually started out as a song and dance man in vaudeville...A few of his buddies he hung around with during his youth actually wound up going to the electric chair for murder...Cagney died in April, 1986 at his home in upper state New York...

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