Johnny Come Lately

8/21/2025

“Vinnie” (Grace George) has been running the “Banner & Shield” newspaper for a very long time, but it’s no longer what it was and she has had to mortgage everything to the hilt to keep the thing, and it’s quirky collection of staff, from the scrap heap. She is a woman of integrity, though, and so when she attends the local court she encounters “Tom” (James Cagney) who is being accused of vagrancy. He claims to have been a newspaper man, so to save him jail she offers him a job. He accepts as an expedient to spare him incarceration, but she insists that he come and live with her and her formidable maid “Aida” (Hattie McDaniel) and actually write something. Meantime, the town is being run by the unscrupulous “Dougherty” (Edward McNamara) whose son “Pete” (Bill Henry) is keen on “Jane” (Marjo