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  James Cagney Biography
Cagney's final appearance on film was in Ragtime in 1981, capping a career that covered over seventy films, although his film prior to Ragtime had been in 1961 with One, Two, Three.
Cagney's health deteriorated substantially after 1979, and the role in Ragtime, as well as a later television appearance in 1984, was designed to aid in his convalescence.
James Cagney is interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.
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  James Cagney
Cagney went on to star in numerous films, making his name as a 'tough guy' in a series of crime films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Blonde Crazy (1931) and Hard to Handle (1933).
Cagney's final appearance on film was in Ragtime in 1981, capping a career that covered over seventy films, although his film prior to Ragtime had been in 1961 with One, Two, Three.
James Cagney is interred in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, New York.
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 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).
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 James Cagney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cagney was born in New York City to James Cagney Sr., an Irish American bartender and amateur boxer, and Carolyn Nelson; his maternal grandfather was a Norwegian ship captain[1] while his maternal grandmother was an Irish American.
Cagney's health deteriorated substantially after 1979, and the role in Ragtime, as well as a later television appearance in 1984, was designed to aid in his convalescence.
James Cagney died at his Dutchess County farm in upstate New York, aged 86, of a heart attack while ill with diabetes.
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 Anecdotes ensure entertaining read on James Cagney
The James Cagney (he disliked being called Jimmy) that emerges from the pages of this book is just as energetic, likable, funny, and fascinating as any character he portrayed on the screen.
Cagney spent much of his early years on the crowded streets of New York with his three brothers (a baby sister came years later), many close friends, and quite a few enemies.
Cagney's rise to movie stardom was relatively quick, really taking off with 1931's Public Enemy, which contained the famous "grapefruit scene." It is at this point that McCabe's book slows down, becoming less interesting as it focuses more on Cagney's work than on the man himself.
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 Comedy Central: Movies - James Cagney - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
With his raspy voice, and staccato vocal inflections James Cagney was one of the brightest stars in American cinema history.
Cagney was a small, rather plain looking man, and had few of the external qualities usually associated with the traditional Hollywood leading man during the '30s.
Cagney even tried directing with Short Cut to Hell a remake of This Gun for Hire, but it was not a commercial success.
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 Images - In Focus: James Cagney
James Cagney as Tom Powers vs. Donald Cook as his brother in Public Enemy.
Cagney began work at Warners in a series of small roles before electrifying audiences as the indomitable Tom Powers in Public Enemy (1931).
Cagney's sulky energy and the film's theme appealed to the down-trodden working class.
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 James Cagney - One of a Kind
Cagney's energetic acting style with staccato delivery and raspy voice became synonymous with the Hollywood "tough guy" role.
Cagney was not content to play just one kind of part and proved his versatility by portraying George M. Cohan in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy sheet music'); return true;" target="ImageWindow" onMouseOut="nd(); return true;" target="ImageWindow">Yankee Doodle Dandy, for which he won a well deserved Oscar for his singing and dancing, as well as his acting.
His autobiography Cagney on Cagney was published in 1975.
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 james cagney
When James Cagney left his home on the mean streets of New York and moved west, the Dream Factory was still reeling from its conversion to sound.
Cagney was a success, but he felt trapped by his own image.
Cagney dove into the role and brought unbelievable intensity to his dance numbers, strutting across the stage, kicking out his heels and belting out patriotic tunes such as "Give My Regards to Broadway," "Over There" and the title track.
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 Kennedy Center: Biographical information for James Cagney
James Cagney was born in the tough Yorkville section of Manhattan, to James Cagney Sr.
Cagney was most often cast as a tough guy, whether it be a gangster of a more law-abiding person, who was constantly challenging anyone around him.
Cagney continued to effectively play the jaded individual battling with the world around him in several more films.
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 AMCTV.com - Shows related to Never Steal Anything Small   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Cagney is a racecar driver who comes into conflict with his his younger brother on the track.
James Cagney plays an independent cabbie who is out to break up the large monopoly that is destroying his business.
James Cagney stars as the Broadway producer so desperate to put on a show at the Academy that he becomes a raw recruit to do so.
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 Amazon.co.uk: White Heat [1949]: Video: James Cagney,Virginia Mayo,Raoul Walsh,Edmond O'Brien,Margaret Wycherly,Steve ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
James Cagney, in a towering performance, is Cody Jarrett, a transparently psychotic robber with a molten temper, feral cunning, and mercurial charm that are finely calibrated extensions of the doomed gangsters he played a decade before, this time coiled not around a Depression-era impetus of greed or class rivalry, but an Oedipal bond.
cagney plays the psychotic robber cody jarrett with relish and a burning intensity which truly shows his acting skills at their best.
even though james cagney had been away from warner brothers for a number of years, he proves with this one film that he is more than capable of being a top box office draw at his old studio.
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 James Cagney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Cagney's final appearance on film was in Ragtime in 1981, capping a career that covered over seventy films, although his last film prior to Ragtime had been 20 years earlier in 1961 with Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three.
James Cagney died aged 86 of a heart attack while ill with diabetes in Stanfordville, New York and is interred in the Cemetery of the Gate of Heaven in Hawthorne, New York.
The stereotypical impression of James Cagney involves wearing a trenchcoat and a hat and sneering "You dirty rat!", a line he never said.
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 James Cagney Biography and Summary
James Cagney was one of the most important and influential screen actors of the twentieth century.
James Cagney (1899-1986) inaugurated a new film persona, a city boy with a staccato rhythm who was the first great archetype in the American talking picture.
James Cagney: James Cagney was part of the Legends of Hollywood USPS stamp series.
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 Amazon.com: Cagney: Books: John McCabe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Cagney guarded his privacy -- he was a man's man not given to driveling displays, tell all accounts, trashing others, or sob stories.
It chronicles Cagney's almost impossibly steep upward climb out of the slums of New York to the success he ultimately became in a way that is truly inspiring to those of us who find ourselves stuck in an ignominious place in life working toward a dream.
James Cagney was truly one of the good ones to come out of the phoney, plastic Hollywood scene.
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 IM's James Francis Cagney, Jr.
Cagney's father was a bartender -- but he also drank a lot and gambled most of his money away on the ponies.
Cagney was very fond of his mother, Carolyn, who held the family of five children together in spite of her husband and after he was gone.
Cagney would be proud of its musical turnover, because although he was often typecast as the heavy, he was truly a song and dance man at heart.
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 Subzero Blue Store :: James Cagney
Cagney is a crusading newspaper editor in 1930s Japan who's come into possession of the "Tanaka Plan" for world domination.
Sylvia Sidney is a half-oriental woman with whom Cagney has an unlikely romance and is on screen mostly to give Cagney something to do when he is not being pursued by the local cops.
Cagney lays down some classic lines and is invloved in a number of romantic moments which will make the ladies swoon (well, I did anyway).
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 James Cagney - Search Results - MSN Encarta
James Cagney - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Cagney, James Francis (1899-1986), American actor and Academy Award winner, noted for his tough-guy roles.
Two new genres that flourished with the coming of sound were gangster films and musicals.
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 James Cagney
Doris Day was at the peak of her popularity when she signed on at MGM after a productive career at Warner Brothers to star with one of the screen's legendary tough guys to do a biopic of one of the twenties' leading nightclub singers.
Cagney delivers one of the most famous performances in film history as the snarling crook who--in one of the film's most famous scenes--smashes a grapefruit into the face of Mae Clarke.
Also while in prison his mother dies, and Cagney performs a mad scene (apparently made up by Cagney on the spot) in the cafeteria that is a brilliant acting performance (and often parodied).
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 Amazon.co.uk: Angels With Dirty Faces [1938]: Video: James Cagney,Pat O'Brien,Michael Curtiz,Humphrey Bogart,Ann ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The swaggering bantam-rooster role played by Cagney, one of the screen's greats, helped define how he would be perceived (and parodied) for years to come.
James Cagney portrays his character in a way that always wants me to feel sorry for him.
James Cagney stars in one of the most memorable films of all time.Bringing his criminal character to life with fine acting.Pat O'Brien and the Dead End kids provide the perfect foil for Cagney.You couldn't watch this film without wanting to watch it again.Buy it and enjoy!
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 Cagney: Hollywood Renegades
James Cagney began his Hollywood career at Warner Bros. in 1930 at the age of 30, and quickly gained a reputation as one of the most difficult and independent-minded of the studio contract actors.
William Cagney, who continued to show great promise as studio producer, proved himself to be on par with other enterprising independents, acquiring property and talent to expand their organization beyond a mere showcase for his brother Jim.
James and William Cagney—biographical information from McCabe, Cagney and Schickel, James Cagney; Cagney, Cagney by Cagney; Goldwyn and Selznick's reluctance to hire Cagney mentioned in Schickel, p.
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 James Cagney DVDs; James Cagney Filmography; James Cagney Brief Biography
James Cagney was a guy who got lucky.
He was a man who gleaned a lot from the world he came from, and the movies possibly saved him from going down the road of the characters he played.
James Cagney died in 1986, after a heart attack.
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 James Cagney - Actor Movie Reviews at TopTenReviews.com
Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan his former girlfriend, Peggy.
Automaker James Alden is told to retire by his doctors and does so in deference to his wife Laura and daughter 'Babs.' He is not only bored after six months, but is told by a life insurance salesman that retired men are bad risks.
Odd little Western that gets off to a snappy start when a man (James Cagney) is mistaken as a train robber.
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 James Cagney — Infoplease.com
James Cagney - Actor, born 17 July 1899, Star of the movies Public Enemy and Yankee Doodle Dandy
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Multiple indemnity: film noir, James M. Cain, and adaptations of a tabloid case: the disappearing death chamber.
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 Wikinfo | James Cagney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
In 1974 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Institute and in 1984 his friend Ronald Reagan awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
The stereotypical impression of James Cagney involves wearing a trenchcoat and a hat and sneering the line "You dirty rat!".
where Cagney delivered the line "You dirty rat, I'm going to get rid of you just like you gave it to my brother" often misquoted as "You dirty rat, you killed my brother".
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 Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a lively, sensational and dynamic film with exciting song and dance numbers and a tour de force performance by the high-pitched and energized James Cagney.
Similar to George M. Cohan's own family that acted together as "The Four Cohans," Cagney's real-life sister Jeanne acted in the film as his younger sister Josie Cohan and his brother William was associate producer (in an independent company).
The camera pans down into the lobby of the theatre where a large, life-size cut-out picture of George M. Cohan (James Cagney) stands on the floor.
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