{"id":3446,"date":"2025-08-16T16:19:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2025-08-19T20:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:23:47","slug":"walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-lady-killer-1933-and-roy-del-ruth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/16\/walk-of-fame-movie-adventures-lady-killer-1933-and-roy-del-ruth\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movie Adventures: Lady Killer (1933) and Roy Del Ruth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-1.jpg\" alt=\"James Cagney drags Mae Clarke by her hair in Lady Killer.\" class=\"wp-image-3449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:11,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/The_Alligator_People&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250913052514\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/The_Alligator_People&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 06:57:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-09 10:13:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-21 09:31:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-28 15:41:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-08 12:34:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-12 14:37:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-01 01:36:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-26 17:43:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-07 01:15:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 13:11:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-01 02:06:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-05 08:39:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-17 18:56:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 10:24:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-03 11:27:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 10:32:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-17 08:01:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 23:15:59&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 14:29:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-14 01:37:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-02 11:05:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-17 11:11:58&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 20:50:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-21 20:50:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-2.jpg\" alt=\"James Cagney and Margaret Lindsay in Lady Killer\" class=\"wp-image-3450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breezy fun for a movie with multiple murders. Something about young James Cagney reminds me of Malcolm McDowell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/roy-del-ruth.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Roy Del Ruth's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Roy Del Ruth.\" class=\"wp-image-3448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/roy-del-ruth.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/roy-del-ruth-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/roy-del-ruth-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roy Del Ruth directed a ton of films, including a lot of musicals. He was the second highest paid director of the 1930s.  His second-to-last film was the classic film &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Alligator_People\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Alligator People.<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does today&#8217;s fake poster have to do with this movie? Not much!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Lady Killer mimicking the poster for An Officer and a Gentleman\" class=\"wp-image-3447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lady-killer.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing to do with the song by The Vandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions\/3466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}