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Cagney Paperback - 1999
by John McCabe
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- very good
- Paperback
Featuring personal anecdotes and candid observations from James Cagney himself, this entertaining biography profiles the great actor, who had a life as rich and eventful as any movie he ever made. 100 photos.
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- Title Cagney
- Author John McCabe
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hachette Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0786705809I4N00
- ISBN 9780786705801 / 0786705809
- Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.03 x 6.07 x 1.33 in (22.94 x 15.42 x 3.38 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses - United, Cagney, James
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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First line
Tiny Jim Cagney sat at the family dining table, transfixed.
From the rear cover
Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his metier as an actor, it was not long before he was recognized as a brilliantly energetic and powerful phenomenon. After the tremendous impact of Public Enemy - in which he notoriously pushed half a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face - he was typecast as a gangster because of the terrifying violence that seemed to be pent up within him. Years of pitched battle with Warner Brothers finally liberated him from those roles, and he went on to star in such triumphs as the musicals Yankee Doodle Dandy (winning the 1942 Oscar for best actor) and Love Me or Leave Me. Even so, one of his greatest later roles involved a return to crime - as the psychopathic killer in the terrifying White Heat. He retired from films in 1961 after making Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three, only to return twenty years later for Ragtime. But however much Cagney personified violence and explosive energy on the screen, in life he was a quiet, introspective, and deeply private man, a poet, painter, and environmentalist, whose marriage to his early vaudeville partner was famously loyal and happy. His story is one of the few Hollywood biographies that reflect a fulfilled life as well as a spectacular career.
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Citations
- New York Times, 03/14/1999, Page 36