James Cagney, the Authorized Biography
Author | : Doug Warren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780896215689 |
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Author | : Doug Warren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780896215689 |
Author | : James Cagney |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2005-03-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0385520263 |
This book is for the true fan of James Cagney. Mr. Cagney tells his story as no one can.
Author | : Doug Warren |
Publisher | : Random House Value Pub |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986-09-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780517425077 |
Author | : John McCabe |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 701 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307830993 |
John McCabe's participation in the writing of James Cagney's autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period of interview and discussion in preparation for a musical comedy based on Cagney's life--a show that never saw the light of day--make him Cagney's ideal biographer. And, indeed, he has written a searching chronicle of this major actor's life and career, packed with history and anecdote, and profusely illustrated. Cagney came from a poor Irish-American New York family but once he found his métier 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.
Author | : Richard Schickel |
Publisher | : Applause Theatre & Cinema |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
"This book shows how he began his Hollywood career as the movies' first symbol of the aspirations of America's urban second generation. But after the apotheosis that was Yankee Doodle Dandy, both Cagney and the world began to age and change.".
Author | : Mae Clarke |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780810830448 |
Presents the result of conversations between writer James Curtis and Mae Clark (1910-1992), an actress who has the misfortune of being best known for a scene in which James Cagney grinds a grapefruit into her face, but whose talent and hard work in the acting business, in spite of personal misfortune, shine through. Includes an introduction by Curtis and bandw film stills. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Michael Freedland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
The life and career of one of Hollywood's illustrious stars.
Author | : Doug Warren |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Motion picture actors and actresses |
ISBN | : 9780312902087 |
Author | : |
Publisher | : Gospel Church |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2024-08-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Scott Allen Nollen |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2013-04-05 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786458542 |
These were unique, complex, personal and professional relationships between master director John Ford and his two favorite actors, John Wayne and Ward Bond. The book provides a biography of each and a detailed exploration of Ford's work as it was intertwined with the lives and work of both Wayne and Bond (whose biography here is the first ever published). The book reveals fascinating accounts of ingenuity, creativity, toil, perseverance, bravery, debauchery, futility, abuse, masochism, mayhem, violence, warfare, open- and closed-mindedness, control and chaos, brilliance and stupidity, rationality and insanity, friendship and a testing of its limits, love and hate--all committed by a "half-genius, half-Irish" cinematic visionary and his two surrogate sons: Three Bad Men.