Something to Sing About

8/11/2025

There aren’t many actors who can go from menacing gangster to top-hatted crooner, but James Cagney was one of them, and he does it quite amiably in this comedy. With the unwieldy name of “Thaddeus McGillicuddy”, he is a band-leader in New York who is offered a contract in Hollywood but after a bit of stunt fisticuffs goes quite spectacularly wrong, he throws in that towel and heads off on a vacation with his fiancée “Rita” (Evelyn Daw). Unbeknownst to him, though, the cameras were running all through his lively studio-trashing exhibition, the film was released and now he’s a star! Reunited with the studio bosses, he - using the slightly more user-friendly pseudonym of “Terry Rooney”, is offered a lucrative deal - but only on the condition that he isn’t married. Well, now he is, and he like