Frank Sinatra Hosts The James Cagney AFI Life Achievement Award
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- Charlton Heston introduces the host of the 2nd AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To James Cagney, Frank Sinatra (1974).
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A forgotten era, A time when gentlemen & ladies actually lived & breathed, A great loss for civilization. May they all have a stage in Heaven!!
Best era EVER
Cagney and Sinatra -- brilliant talent the world will never see again. RIP
Almost every person here is gone and that is so sad I cannot begin to express it.
Cagney was one of a kind...a man of integrity and he represented everything a human being should be..in a class of his own...there will never be another....
James Francis Cagney Jr.
Magnificent showmen, Sinatra, Heston, Cagney. Love those guys along with a bunch of GREATS like John Wayne, Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Alan Ladd, Jeff Chandler, Burt Lancaster, Robert Mitchum, Tony Curtis..
He May Have Had His Critics But Sinatra Left His Mark On The 20th century. Certainly in the Top 10 .Especially With His Impressive Recording Catalogue.
There was more Hollywood firepower in that ballroom that I have ever seen before
I loved Frank - he was always very generous with his praise.
Eh, praise is cheap
Hollywood today couldn’t even hold a candle to to the class in this room
122 years today (July, 17th) since this expressionist firecracker was born...must have been a full moon!
Sinatra maintained close relationships with several Hollywood icons: Jimmy Cagney, the AFI honoree, Spencer Tracy, with whom he co-starred in The Devil At Four O Clock, and with Cary Grant, his co-star in Stanley Kramer's The Pride and the Passion. Sinatra tried to emulate these legendary actors and they appreciated his interest.
As per his wife Barbara, Cagney was an idol of Frank’s.
James Cagney was my dear Father's favourite...and so became mine as well. I've seen all his films and he was in mho the greatest of them all. Who can forget Angel's With Dirty Faces? or The Roaring Twenties? or Mr. Roberts? These films are classics and will live on. Thank heaven's for that.
Sinatra, Ronald Reagan and james cagney in that room. Imagine.
The man sitting next to Cagney, it’s Ronald Reagan.
Amazing talent which we will never see again
Love Sinatra and Cagney!!
As Sinatra is making his opening remarks as the host of the AFI Tribute, Cagney is smiling at Sinatra, as if to say, You think that you're a tough guy, but I'm the real deal.
Heston and Sinatra! TOGETHER! IN THE SAME ROOM! IN THE SAME SHOT! TWO OF MY FAVORITES EVER!
i would pay for a 2 hours show of Frank doing only THIS impersonation
When men were men.
Yes sir
And sheep were scared shitless!
A lad from Newport, Co. Tipperary, Ireland that became famous in Hollywood
Two of the Greatest entertainers!
He's a Yankee Doodle Dandy.
Hollywood Greats..ALL of them
As we all know: J.C.'s other 2 simple, true exhortations re acting:
1. "Look the other [guy] - [person - whatever] in the eye and mean what you say;" and
2. "Never relax ([mentally]. If you relax, the audience relaxes."
They broke THE MOLD w/ these 2. Bob Hope, too ... BROKE - THE - MOLD.
Ye gads, I love, honor and respect them SO DARNED MUCH,
Gratefully, VCH & MTC, Newark
Well, yes. When two Titans meet and share their love. We are truely fortunate.
A tone like no other!
What a Magic Night. Cagney the greatest
Always Rocky Sullivan
a giant,loved him.
Some celebrities that are dead who I would love to go back in time and meet include: Walt Disney, Vincent Price, Sterling Holloway, Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Sinatra, Jim Henson, Alec Guinness, and Elmer Bernstein to name a few.
James Moyner ... Dean Martin ( Jeanne his ex wife just to make life happy again) , Sammy Davis Jr, Joey Bishop ( so The Rat Pack could be back together again) Johnny Carson, Jerry Lewis to name a few more
Toni Wilson Like you, I would love to meet Dean, and especially Jeannie, for whom, like many others who know about her history and relationship with Dean, I have a massive admiration. I feel she must have been quite a woman, and someone I would have liked to have been friends with. Some others I would like to have met are Spencer Tracy, Gregory Peck, James Stewart and Jack Lemmon, who were all fine actors and mostly seemed like nice guys too.
Happy 100th Birthday Frank Sinatra
No 1 actor in the world. Wonderful brilliant. RIP JIMMY CAGNEY & GOD BLESS . 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Class act all the way!!
he wore rugs a bit didn't he? Frank also introduced 1974's That's Entertainment.
Compare this event with the way it would be handled today. When this aired early in 1974, President Richard Nixon was in huge trouble over Watergate and would resign later that year. The USA had already ended their involvement in Vietnam and the Peace Accords of 1973 were already being violated. There were shortages of gasoline and long lines to fill your car. Redlining by banks was outlawed. Patty Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. The Cambodian Civil War was in full swing which would culminate in a genocide of at least 2 million. There was a smaller genocide happening in Burundi by the Tutsi against the Hutus. Yes, the 1970s were bad years. Yet no one who spoke inserted politics or "wokeness" into their comments. It was a pleasant respite from the stresses of that year. Such an event today would provide an irresistible opportunity for inserting "woke" comments or insults at the President.
Here is my opinion respectfully.
There was more patience in those days. People have a better understanding of how our government works, and how it is being let's say worked, and that this system will keep producing catastrophe, because its a failed system. I think people are impatient today, and there is a right to voice one's opinion because they want change, but they should choose their topics with people and their environment wisely. The system is responsible for much destruction of not only numerous countries, but of the very planet we stand on. It is too powerful and nothing can stop it unless it is decided by our masters. All of this however does not mean we cannot be a human being towards one another and speak about things we all enjoy without getting political.
This is coming from someone who is neither for Democrats or Republicans; not a supporter of communism, anarchism, or capitalism; not for "woke" culture and politically correct language, or pro-Trump or anti-vax; and not religious, nor am I against ppl who are, unless one decides to be aggressive with their religion.
From this to someone getting slapped in the face.America fell very fast.
Mr c certainly did it is way.xx
Bravo Frank you started it all
100% agreed with all of you positives here. Francis. WOW; the best.
My favorite actor of all time, James Cagney.
Such a - our - Miracle Man.
Happy Spring, y'all,
xo
VCH (former proud Hobokenite! - now got too fancy and too environmentally messed-up ...) & Midlantic Theatre Co.
Theatre in Renaissance Newark + Schools & Prisons
A NJ 501(c)3 nonprofit corp.
Love the reference to Lon Chaney in your post about your love for Cagney, Virginia...the term " generosity of spirit" could have come about in reference to the mercurial little dynamo Cagney!
@jasong145 You mean how gray his hairpiece got. =) My favorite entertainer ever!
They will never be forgotten
With all due respect to Sinatra, I never knew why he was the MOC for this. What personal/professional connection did they ever have??
Suggest you do a little reading - they were close personal friends.
❤
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