Terrible Joe Moran (1984)

Actors: James Cagney (actor), Art Carney (actor), Peter Gallagher (actor), Joe Gray (actor), Ed Koch (actor), Mike Starr (actor), Lawrence Tierney (actor), Ellen Barkin (actress), Robert Halmi Jr. (producer), Charles Gross (composer), Joseph Sargent (director), Eric Albertson (editor), David Wohl (actor), Anna Berger (actress), Joe Seneca (actor),

Plot: James Cagney (in his final role) plays a wheelchair-bound former boxing champion whose long estraged granddaughter, an aspiring writer, pops back in his life first searching for money to help her ne'er-do-well boyfriend get off the hook with mafia types for various loans, and later she redevelops a familial bond with the old man.

Keywords: boxer, character-name-in-title, grandfather-granddaughter-relationship, irish-american, new-york, new-york-city, writer
Genres: Drama,

Babes in Arms (1939)

Actors: Henry Roquemore (actor), Mickey Rooney (actor), Joseph Crehan (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Rand Brooks (actor), Henry Hull (actor), Robert Emmett Keane (actor), Guy Kibbee (actor), Frank Darien (actor), George McKay (actor), James Donlan (actor), Sidney Miller (actor), Barnett Parker (actor), Cyril Ring (actor), Charles Smith (actor),

Plot: Mickey Moran, a talented singer and musician, son of a veteran from the show business. Mickey has a partner, Patsi Barton, a pretty girl and also a very talented singer. One day, a big opportunity arrives for Mickey, a big contract to set up his own show. However, things don't go well, and in order to avoid being sent to a work farm, he'll improvise a show in the country, despite the awful weather conditions. Patsi's in love with Mickey, he loves her too, but for him the show must go on, and his big dream maybe will come true: formally stage his play in a big scenario, with a huge production.

Keywords: actor-shares-first-name-with-character, backstage, based-on-play, blackface, bonfire, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, broadway-manhattan-new-york-city, child-star, composition, drugstore
Genres: Comedy, Musical,
Taglines: The big musical fun show!

Quotes:

Michael C. 'Mickey' Moran: No, no, no, judge! You don't understand; she don't understand, either. Oh, she don't mean no harm to us, but... we're not her kind of people - or yours, either. We belong in show business. We gotta start young so we can get some steel in our backbone. Well, gee, we're developing. You couldn't teach us a trade: we've GOT one. And you couldn't do without it... Oh, we're only kids now, but someday we're gonna be the guys that make ya laugh and cry and think that there's a little stardust left on life's dirty old pan. Oh, she don't understand: she'd put butterflies to work makin' rubber tires!

Michael C. 'Mickey' Moran: Here we are together, a couple of stayer uppers. Our day is done at breakfast time, and starts it with our suppers. Here we are together, but the best of friends must party. So let me sing this parting song from the bottom of my hearty.

Don Brice: [singing] Play day is done, we must wait in the sun, we must fight for. So babes in arms to arms!::Kids: [sings] To arms! To arms, babes in arms!