Walk of Fame Movies: Picture Snatcher and Alice White

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James Cagney in Picture Snatcher.
Patricia Ellis and James Cagney in Picture Snatcher.

Jimmy Cagney sure made a lot of tough guy action comedies.

Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Alice White's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Alice White.

Alice White (1511 Vine Street) plays the bad woman trying to cheat on her boyfriend with Cagney. White’s real life sounds like it came out of one of these Cagney movies: her career was derailed when she and her boyfriend were accused of hiring someone to beat up her ex. She ended up leaving acting and becoming a secretary. It sounds like she didn’t miss it; her quote at MUBI on her filmography page is “I wouldn’t be a movie star again for all the tea in China.”

What do you get when a movie has very few available decent images and the title contains a word from a movie with a very simple poster? You get this:

A fake poster for Picture Snatcher mimicking the poster for Snatch.
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