So we’re at least two others films of his: LARCENY, INC. and A SLIGHT CASE OF Murder!
Then there are THESEAWolf, FLESH AND FANTASY, ALL MY SONS, and even more where he doesn’t play a gangster ever!
Brother Orchid was from 1940. Yankee Doodle Dandy was released two years later. The truth was that Cagney was a dancer as a youth and got a role as a punk gangster that launched his career. It took him at least a decade to break out of the stereotype and let him play different genre roles, just like Robinson.
-PJ