Jimmy the Gent (film)

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Jimmy the Gent
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Directed by	Michael Curtiz
Produced by	Robert Lord Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner
Written by	Ray Nazarro (story) Laird Doyle (story) Bertram Millhauser
Starring	James Cagney Bette Davis Allen Jenkins Alan Dinehart
Music by	Bernhard Kaun (uncredited)
Cinematography	Ira H. Morgan
Editing by	Thomas Richards
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date(s)	March 17, 1934
Running time	67 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
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Jimmy the Gent is a 1934 American comedy-drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney and Bette Davis. The screenplay by Bertram Millhauser was based on The Heir Chaser by Ray Nazarro and Laird Doyle.

Prior to its release, the film was titled Blondes and Bonds and then Heir Chaser.^[1] It was the first pairing of Cagney and Davis, who would reunite for The Bride Came C.O.D. seven years later.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Critical reception 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Plot

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. When his former girlfriend Joan Martin (Davis), who left him to due his lack of ethics, accepts a position at the allegedly legitimate firm owned by Charles Wallingham (Alan Dinehart), Corrigan investigates Wallingham's background and discovers his rival is even more duplicitous than he is. He exposes him for the phony he is and promises to go straight if Joan will come back to him.

[edit] Cast

• James Cagney as Jimmy Corrigan
• Bette Davis as Joan Martin
• Allen Jenkins as Lou
• Alan Dinehart as Charles Wallingham
• Alice White as Mabel
• Arthur Hohl as Monty Barton
• Hobart Cavanaugh as Fake Worthingham
• Mayo Methot as Gladys Farrell

[edit] Critical reception

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."^[2]

Variety said, "Jimmy the Gent . . . [is] expert, thorough-going, typically Cagney . . . and good for plenty of laughs."^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Jimmy the Gent at the TCM Movie Database

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