| |
| | obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for James Cagney |
 | | Oscar winning actor James Cagney, who epitomized the Roaring 20s tough guy and rose to fame in the gangster film "The Public Enemy", was in real life an accomplished painter and poet who preferred life on his upstate New York farm to the high life of Hollywood. |
 | | Born James Francis Cagney, Jr., on July 17th, 1899 in New York City, he was the son of hard working, lower-class immigrants: Cagney's father was an Irish-born bartender, and his mother, a sturdy Norwegian woman who guided her three children alone after she was widowed in 1918. |
 | | Cagney, who, with his wife Frances was the parent of 2 adopted children, settled in to his Stanfordville, New York farm, seemingly immovably, to garden, paint and write poetry, as well as the autobiography Cagney by Cagney (1975). |
| obits.com /cagneyjames.html (1136 words) |
|