Geronimo1967
There arent many actors who can go from menacing gangster to top-hatted crooner, but James Cagney was one of them, and he does it quite amiably in this comedy. With the unwieldy name of Thaddeus McGillicuddy, he is a band-leader in New York who is offered a contract in Hollywood but after a bit of stunt fisticuffs goes quite spectacularly wrong, he throws in that towel and heads off on a vacation with his fiancée Rita (Evelyn Daw). Unbeknownst to him, though, the cameras were running all through his lively studio-trashing exhibition, the film was released and now hes a star! Reunited with the studio bosses, he - using the slightly more user-friendly pseudonym of Terry Rooney, is offered a lucrative deal - but only on the condition that he i...