Old Tammany will greet him, And so will Fighting Al. Let's all clear the way, He'll be home today. Shaking hands with old Broadway. Our Jimmy's coming home boys, Greet him with a ...

Beau James, they called him, everything New York wanted a mayor to be in the limitlessly roaring 1920s, flashy and smart-mouth and Broadway smooth, as charming a sinner as God’s chirping angels ...

New York’s mayor James “Jimmy” Walker resigned in September 1932. The story of this colourful Irish-American civic leader has since been told in book and film form, as well as on the stage.

Jimmy Walker was the anti-Bloomberg, ... One would be hard-pressed to find anything in Walker’s New York—contracts, ... Paul Simon at Beacon Theatre, and season four of The Bear.

News New York Here are some notable on-screen portrayals of NYC mayors. ... Bob Hope 'Beau James' (1956) Hope plays ex-mayor Jimmy Walker in this biopic about his corrupt reign from 1926-32.