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Cagney by John McCabe (1999, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGrand Central Publishing

ISBN-100786705809

ISBN-139780786705801

eBay Product ID (ePID)360610

Product Key Features

Book TitleCagney

Number of Pages464 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

TopicGeneral, Entertainment & Performing Arts

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorJohn Mccabe

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight25.6 Oz

Item Length8.9 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal791.43/028/092 B

SynopsisCagney 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.

LC Classification NumberPN2287.C23