Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Movies & TV

This historical documentary features James Cagney as "an American everyman," much the same role Bing Crosby casts himself in for the song.

Lawson's saucy column begins with some classics—"It's A Wonderful Life," "The Grapes of Wrath"—and then moves into the slightly more obscure, concluding with a film called "Gold Diggers of 1933." We long to know what that's all about.