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Comment CAGNEY and I’ll DM you the full ep! ▶️ James Cagney is remembered as Hollywood’s original tough guy — the streetwise gangster, the rapid-fire talker, the Oscar winner whose intensity lit up the screen. But behind that persona was something most people don’t know: He was a dancer first. Before the fame, before Public Enemy, before he became one of the most iconic actors of the 20th century, Cagney grew up in vaudeville — tapping, clowning, singing, and performing for pennies long before H

Bob Hope and James Cagney in a tabletop dance-off (from the 1955 film "The Seven Little Foys"). Hope played vaudeville comedian Eddie Foy, while Cagney reprised his Academy Award-winning role as George M. Cohan (from 1942's "Yankee Doodle Dandy")