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Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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From Time Out Film Guide
This breezy comedy is a real product of the Depression, with Cagney blustering away as the scheming promotions man ducking and diving his way from fronting marathon dance contests, to pushing new wonder diets and making America grapefruit-conscious (an allusion perhaps to the star's notorious fruit-in-the-face scene from Public Enemy). He meets his match in determined mom Donnelly, who's set on marrying him off to daughter Brian, and if the whole thing doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense, at least it speeds along.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Producer: Robert Lord
Cast: James Cagney, Mary Brian, Ruth Donnelly, Allen Jenkins, Emma Dunn, Claire Dodd, Robert McWade full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 75 mins
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