in this adaptation of william saroyan award win play the time of your life and james cagney play a gentle barfly name joe who settle in nick ( william bendix ) bar with various colorful character like an imaginative old cowboy or a tap dancing comic who can not get laugh . his sister jeanne play kitty duval and a woman who claim to once have be in burlesque . she and her brother have some of the most touching scene in the movie . the pace take a while to get use to but if youre in the mood for something optimistically offbeat and the time of your life should be up your alley . by the way and future gilligan island cast member natalie schafer play a society woman who slum by go to nick bar with her husband . pretty amuse cameo .