04272cam a2200841 4500 537604313 TxAuBib 20210920120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307830999 0307830993 B00C8S9WEM Amazon 5d7bc742-c10e-430d-b2d4-854c2c46ce83 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 110215 110215 110215 1274895 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib McCabe, John. Cagney [Libby eBook]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 20MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. gifts for movie lovers. broadway musical gifts. musical theater gifts. musical theatre gifts. broadway musicals. music biographies. broadway posters. autobiographies. broadway books. broadway gifts. Autobiography. theater books. theater gifts. theatre gifts. musical gifts. stage makeup. biographies. film making. movie books. Creativity. movie book. Biography. character. Hollywood. musicals. broadway. playbill. Theater. Musical. Theatre. Movies. Cinema. Comedy. Plays. movie. Drama. Music. play. Film. HTML:<p>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.<br /> <br /> 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 <i>Public Enemy</i>--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 <i>Yankee Doodle Dandy</i> (winning the 1942 Oscar for best actor) and <i>Love Me or Leave Me.</i> 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 <i>One, Two, Three,</i> only to return twenty years later for <i>Ragtime.</i><br /> <br /> 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.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Performing Arts. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/cagney?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/cagney?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/cagney?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)