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

Joan Leslie: Self - Actress

Quotes 

• Herself - Actress : [Joan Leslie on Cagney's performance in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"]  There was a scene that he did that was so remarkable. Everyone on the lot, I think, as affected by it. It was when he said goodbye, as it were, to his dying father... Mike Curtiz spoiled a take because of crying so loud he couldn't control it. The script girl cried so much that she blurred the ink on the notes on her script. It was quite a moment.

• Herself - Actress : [Joan Leslie on the set "Yankee Doodle Dandy"]  It was the day after Pearl Harbor and President Roosevelt came on the radio and we tuned it on on the set and listened to him declare war. I remember we all stood around dead still, a lot of extras on the set, you know, and we all became quiet. And Jimmy said, "I think - I think this is a good place for a little pray."