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Cagney (Paperback, 1st Caroll & Graf ed)
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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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