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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug
The famous "grapefruit scene" with Cagney shoving the fruit in Mae Clark's face wasn't that big a deal back then and the scene happens so fast you almost miss it.
Filmed at Warner Bros in Burbank 1931
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These 10 clippings suggest the grapefruit scene was very much a big deal back then (e.g., "James Cagney made an overnight triumph"
in #2, "immortal episode involving grapefruit" near the end of #5, "The grapefruit joke still goes on at Warner Brothers" in #6, and
"famous breakfast scene" in #10).
Edwin Schallert misidentifies the fruit in his review of
The Public Enemy in the May 18, 1931,
Los Angeles Times:
All the images in this post are from
Los Angeles Times articles at ProQuest via LAPL
"Cavaliers of Cinema Passe" by Margaret Reid, August 30, 1931:
"Cagney Becoming Favorite with New Technique" by Edwin Schallert, January 14, 1932:
"Sock in Jaw Supplants Fade-Out Kiss" by Edwin Schallert, January 17, 1932:
"News and Gossip of Stage and Screen" by Norbert Lusk, May 28, 1933:
Edwin Schallert, September 12, 1933:
Unknown author, December 10, 1933:
Unknown author, February 16, 1935:
"James Cagney Scores Producer’s Methods" by Sheilah Graham, September 18, 1936:
"Mae Clark, Cagney Lead, Signs Contract for Five Pictures" by Edwin Schallert, October 22, 1936: