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Name: James Cagney
Birth Date: July 17, 1899
Death Date: March 30, 1986
Place of Birth: New York, New York, United States
Place of Death: Millbrook, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: actor

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Biography of James Cagney
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James Cagney was one of the most important and influential screen actors of the twentieth century. During the 1930s Cagney helped create the popular image of the gangster in a series of critically acclaimed movies. After World War II, Cagney redefined...
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Biography of James Cagney
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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. He was a true icon, and his essential integrity illuminated and deepened even the most...


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James Cagney Quotes
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James Francis Cagney, Jr. ( July 17 , 1899 – March 30 , 1986 ) was an American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy . Sourced You don't psych yourself up...


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Cagney, James (1899-1986) Summary
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One of the greatest tough-guy personas of twentieth-century film, James Cagney worked hard to refine his image to meet his responsible Catholic background. The result was a complex set of characters who ranged from the hard-working immigrant striving...
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James Cagney Information
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James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles, including the career-launching The Public Enemy, and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for...


News and Journals
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The Boston Globe
The `cagney' Comeback
05/02/1995: 973 words, approx. 3 pages
Few established television stars with established television careers would bother to crisscross the country to sip sodas with reporters in fancy restaurants and pump established television projects. But age, wisdom and the fickleness of fans and television executives have taught Sharon Gless not to...
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Commonweal
Cagney. (book review) (book reviews)
04/10/1998: 1,130 words, approx. 4 pages
John McCabe Alfred A. Knopf, $29.95, 439 pp. It may be some while before biographies of urban Irish-Americans from impoverished families escape the long shadow of Frank McCourt's 1996 memoir, Angela's Ashes, which has apparently won millions of readers over to its...
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AP News
Today in history - March 30
3/29/2007: 465 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Friday, March 30, the 89th day of 2007. There are 276 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was shot and seriously injured outside a Washington hotel by John W. Hinckley Jr. Also wounded were White House...
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AP Features
Hollywood mural gets touchup
7/12/2007: 757 words, approx. 3 pages
It's not your typical night at the movies: Fred and Ginger dance in the aisle, King Kong hangs out with Frankenstein and E.T. phones home in the lobby.In a mural overlooking the drab corner of Hollywood and Wilcox, movie stars sit in a theater and...
 


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