Beau James is a 1957 film based on a non-fiction book of the same name by Gene Fowler.
The movie stars Bob Hope as Jimmy Walker, the colourful but controversial Mayor of New York City from 1926-32.
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Famous quotes containing the words beau and/or james:
“This sort of adoration of the real
Is but a heightening of the beau ideal.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)