Fine. I'll say it. I have never like James Cagney's performances. In anything. I thought him overrated as an actor. There, I said it.
Never big on Spencer Tracy or Laurence Olivier. Just left me cold. But Meryl Streep is the worst of all.
You are a heathen But I must agree on Meryl Streep. She has two emotions: Stupid and Crying.
ReplyDeleteBut ... but ... she had a farm in Africa!
ReplyDeleteCagney was a heck of a dancer, though.
ReplyDeleteYou clearly never saw him in One, Two, Three. If you had you could not possibly have avoided using the term "wooden".
ReplyDeleteI have a vague recollection of his last movie. He was good, I think. Two character movie. Now I need to look it up, ...
ReplyDeleteInteresting history of Cagney's farm on Martha's Vinyard. Seems he was the first celebrity to move there:
ReplyDeletehttp://mvmagazine.com/news/2011/05/01/james-cagney%E2%80%99s-island-refuge