James Cagney meets Bette Davis

Funny scene from "Jimmy the Gent", starring James Cagney and Bette Davis.

The farcical plot of the Warner Bros. release focuses on the unscrupulous Jimmy Corrigan (Cagney), who runs an agency that searches for heirs of those who have died without leaving a will and often provides phony claimants in order to collect his fee.

In his review in the New York Times, Mordaunt Hall described the film as "a brisk, slangy piece of work in which Mr. Cagney is as much of a pepper-pot as ever . . . [he] tackles the barbed argot of his lines with speed and force . . . Bette Davis is attractive and capable as Joan."


Movie: Jimmy the Gent (1934)

- The clip belongs to WB.