James Cagney: Top of the World (TV Movie 1992) - Casey Cagney Thomas as Self - Daughter

Self - Daughter : He went to bed early. He was up at the crack of dawn. Preferred reading and didn't do socializing.
Self - Daughter : [Mae Clark on Cagney] "Lady Killer" had him pulling me by the hair of the head across the length of two floors. Pulled my hair, only he didn't pull my hair. He got ahold of my hair. But, I got ahold of his wrist. And when he just walked away, I went with it. Now, I wouldn't have known that; but, he did. He was a dancer, essentially. Everything that James Cagney did was choreographed.
Self - Daughter : My mother one day said, "Let's go see your Dad in a movie." Because, we'd never seen one. It was "Midsummer's Night Dream" at a theater in Beverly Hills. And I think I was five or six or something like that. And they come to the scene where Mickey Rooney, playing Puck, and when he spreads the stardust on Dad's head and he suddenly has the head of a donkey. And I - freaked out. And I started screaming, as loud as I could, "I don't want a donkey for a father!" You know, took off out of my seat, ran up to the screen, and I'm pounding on it. "I don't want a donkey for a father! I don't want a donkey for a father!" And they had to find my father and make me realize that he was not a donkey.

Host : This was the only time Jimmy ever let the studio make an ass out of him.

Casey Cagney Thomas: Self - Daughter