American actor best remembered for starring in movies like Yankee Doodle Dandy, The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, Footlight Parade, The Strawberry Blonde, 13 Rue Madeleine, Mister Roberts, Public Enemy, Angels with Dirty Faces and One, Two, Three,.
I was 5-foot-8, no face, just pale white eyebrows and eyelashes. Nothing to photograph.
Size doesn't mean a thing.
How tall is James Cagney1930's Publicity Photo
[James] Cagney once said to me, "Listen, kid, I want to give you a tip. I'm 5 feet 4 inches tall and I play opposite guys 6 feet 3...By the time the scene's over, I'm 6 feet 3."
What They Said In 1975
That film [Footlight Parade] brings to mind a question frequently asked of me: Did my height ever give me trouble with leading ladies? Only with one - Claire Dodd. She was the tallest of all the ladies I've ever worked with - a tall, handsome gal - and in close shots opposite her, they had to slip a two-inch apple box under me.

Which brings me to the subject of my height. For reasons unknown to me, people are always interested in my exact height. The literal truth is, I don't know what it is. I haven't measured for years and I'm really not interested enough to do so. I do know my wife is five foot one, and I tower over her by a good seven inches.

Various newspaper accounts of my career pegged my height at different levels, and I think the reason they never agree is because in any fight scene I have always insisted on having an opponent bigger than myself.