Allen Jenkins: Fifty Years a Mug
Staten Island born Alfred McGonegal (1900-1974), the Runyonesque character actor who played crooks and coppers and mugs and cabbies, might have done well to have kept his given name, rather than change it to the WASPy sounding Allen Jenkins. It probably seemed right for the pseudo-English aesthetics of early 20th century theatre Though James Cagney, with […]