James Cagney: Top of the World (1992 TV Movie)

Mae Clarke: Self - Actress

Quotes 

• Self - Actress : [Mae Clarke on "Public Enemy"]  I was in my dressing room, preparing to take my make-up off, when knock-knock-knock, and it's Jimmy at the door. "Yes, come in Jim." He sat down, he said, "May goodness if we had just thought to do that little thing and pick up that grapefruit and smash it in your face, at the end of the scene, what would that have done to the crew?" He said, "Would you come back and do it one more time and do that?" Now, this was not, my understanding, to be used in the picture.

• Self - Actress : [Mae Clarke on "Public Enemy"]  Sixty years I've been answering this question, "How did it feel to have that grapefruit pushed in your face by James Cagney?" I said, "Wet."