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Come Fill the Cup is a 1951 film starring James Cagney and Gig Young, directed by Gordon Douglas. Young's performance was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . Cagney plays an alcoholic newspaperman.
Come Fill the Cup: Directed by Gordon Douglas. With James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey, James Gleason. Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan.
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- Crime, Drama
- Gordon Douglas
- 1951-10-24
Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring. Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling; The Bird of Time has but a little way. To flutter–and the Bird is on the Wing. Whether at Naishápúr or ...
In one of his most brilliant film performances, Cagney plays an alcoholic reporter who loses his girlfriend and his job to the bottle. After going on a bender, he is found collapsed in a street gutter and is put in a drunk tank, where he is forced to go through a painful withdrawal. He joins an AA-like group and moves in with a friend played by ...
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- Gordon Douglas
- James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey
- Henry Blanke
Come Fill the Cup. A recovered alcoholic (James Gleason) helps a down-and-out newsman (James Cagney) quit drinking and work his way up to city editor. Another newspaper yarn, crammed with hokum in ...
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- Gordon Douglas
- Drama
- James Cagney
May 3, 2023 · “Come Fill the Cup” is based on a 1951 novel by Harlan Ware, a Chicago newspaper man (Cagney couldn’t get away from Chicago newspaper men, could he?); and in the novel, and in the original script by Ben Roberts and Ivan Goff, the guy who helps the protagonist sober up—who saves him, basically—is Black. Per Cagney biographer John McCabe:
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Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering alcoholics.
