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Other actors had played scum, but only Cagney played scum with an awesome dignity, like a predator in a nature documentary.
Cagney's slow fade is especially surprising when you consider how much the genre he helped to invent, the gangster film, thrives.
A couple of times during this period, he'd test-screen a film, the audience would object to the new passive Cagney, and he'd have to shoot a new ending in which he went crazy and punched someone out.
Watch Cagney while someone else is speaking and you'll see a darting eye, a quivering eyebrow, a split-second grin.
Should we be sad that James Cagney is slipping from memory, or was it inevitable that his star would fade?