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** Creator/LouiseBrooks was offered the role of Gwen Allen, but Brooks turned down the offer in order to visit her lover George Preston Marshall in New York City, and the role instead went to Creator/JeanHarlow, who then began her own rise to stardom, while in the opinion of biographer Barry Paris, "turning down ''Public Enemy'' marked the real end of Louise Brooks's film career". career."[[note]]Brooks's only roles afterwards were in a two-reel comedy short, ''Windy Riley Goes Hollywood'' (1931), directed by by-then-disgraced Hollywood outcast Creator/FattyArbuckle, who worked under the pseudonym "William Goodrich", bit parts in the Western ''Empty Saddles'' (1936) and the musical ''When You're in Love'' (1937), the latter uncredited; a bit part in ''King of Gamblers'' (1937) that ultimately was deleted, and finally the 1938 Western ''Overland Stage Raiders'' in which she played the romantic lead opposite a young Creator/JohnWayne, with a long hairstyle that rendered her all but unrecognizable from her signature bob haircut days.[[/note]] Although Brooks later claimed she declined the role because she "hated Hollywood," film historian James Card, who came to know Brooks later in her life, stated that Brooks "just wasn't interested ... She was more interested in Marshall".Marshall."
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* EnforcedMethodActing: The machine gun attack on Tom and Matt actually used real machine gun bullets. An expert with the gun stood on a raised platform 15 to 20 feet away from the target, and when Creator/JamesCagney's face disappeared behind the corner of the wall, he opened fire and created that tight circle of machine gun bullets.
* IAmNotSpock: Because of the famous grapefruit scene, for years afterward when dining in restaurants, fellow patrons would send grapefruit to Creator/JamesCagney, which--almost invariably--Cagney would happily eat.
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** Edward Woods was originally hired for the lead role of Tom Powers and Creator/JamesCagney was hired to play Matt Doyle, his friend. However, once director William A. Wellman got to know both of them and saw Cagney in rehearsals, he realized that Cagney would be far more effective in the star role than Woods, so he switched them.
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** Edward Woods was originally hired for the lead role of Tom Powers and Creator/JamesCagney was hired to play Matt Doyle, his friend. However, once director William A. Wellman got to know both of them and saw Cagney in rehearsals, he realized that Cagney would be far more effective in the star role than Woods, so he switched them.
