James Cagney (1899 - 1986)

American actor

* July 17, 1899 New York, New York
 as James Francis Cagney
 March 30, 1986 Stanfordville, New York



Vintage magazines

Mon Film, nr. 22, 25-12 1946
Mon Film, nr. 63, 8-10 1947
Photoplay, January 1931

Photoplay, July 1931
Photoplay, July 1931
Photoplay, July 1931

Photoplay, October 1931
Photoplay, October 1931
Photoplay, December 1931


Books by James Cagney

James Cagney
Cagney by Cagney
New York, 1976

Books on James Cagney

John McCabe
Cagney
New York, 1997

Robert Sklar
City boys, Cagney, Bogart, Garfield
Princeton, N.J., 1992

Richard Schickel
James Cagney, A Celebration
Boston, Massachusetts, 1985

Andrew Bergman James Cagney Andrew Bergman
James Cagney, Seine Filme - sein Leben
München, 1980

James Robert Parish
The Tough Guys
New Rochelle, New York, 1976

Michael Freedland
Cagney, A Biography
New York, 1975

Patrick McGilligan
Cagney, The Actor as Auteur
South Brunswick, N.J., 1975

Andrew Bergman
James Cagney
New York, 1973

Homer Dickens The Films of James Cagney Homer Dickens
The Films of James Cagney
Secaucus, NJ, 1972

Ron Offen
Cagney
Chicago, 1972

Books with substantial mentioning of James Cagney

David Fantle and Tom Johnson Hollywood heyday David Fantle and Tom Johnson
Hollywood heyday, 75 candid interviews with golden age legends
Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018

Dan Callahan The art of American screen acting, 1912-1960 Dan Callahan
The art of American screen acting, 1912-1960
Jefferson, North Carolina, 2018

Scott Allen Nollen
Warners wiseguys, All 112 films that Robinson, Cagney and Bogart made for the studio
Jefferson, N.C., 2008

Peter Bogdanovich Who the Hell's in It Peter Bogdanovich
Who the Hell's in It, Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors
New York, 2004

Karen Burroughs Hannsberry Bad Boys Karen Burroughs Hannsberry
Bad Boys, The Actors of Film Noir
Jefferson, NC and London, 2003

Mick LaSalle Dangerous Men Mick LaSalle
Dangerous Men, Pre-Code Hollywood and the Birth of the Modern Man
2002

John Dileo 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't John Dileo
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't
New York, 2002

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Andrew Sarris You ain't heard nothin' yet Andrew Sarris
"You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949
New York, Oxford, 1998

Danny Peary Alternate Oscars Danny Peary
Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present
New York, 1993

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

James Naremore
Acting in the Cinema
Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1988

Ann Lloyd (ed.) Movies of the Thirties Ann Lloyd (ed.)
Movies of the Thirties
London, 1983

James Robert Parish Hollywood's Great Love Teams James Robert Parish
Hollywood's Great Love Teams
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Books with an entry on James Cagney

Lloyd Hughes
The Rough Guide to Gangster Movies
London, 2005

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films Kay Weniger
Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Erster Band. A-C
Berlin, 2001

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1987, A Survey of the Films of 1986
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1987
pp. 592-594 info

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Articles on James Cagney

Simon Louvish, Top of the world, in: Sight & Sound, nr. 7, 2004 pp. 36-39

Michael Buckley, James Cagney, in: Films in Review, vol. 33, 1982 pp. 138-146

Films

1930
Doorway to Hell
Sinners' Holiday

1931
Blonde Crazy
The Millionaire
Other Men's Women
The Public Enemy
Smart Money
Taxi!
Practice Shots

1932
The Crowd Roars
Winner Take All

1933
Footlight Parade
Hard to Handle
Lady Killer
The Mayor of Hell
Picture Snatcher
Wild Boys of the Road

1934
He Was Her Man
Here Comes the Navy
Jimmy the Gent
The St. Louis Kid

1935
'G' Men
Ceiling Zero
Devil Dogs of the Air
Frisco Kid
The Irish in Us
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mutiny on the Bounty
A Dream Comes True

1936
Great Guy

1937
Something to Sing About

1938
Angels with Dirty Faces
Boy Meets Girl

1939
Each Dawn I Die
The Oklahoma Kid
The Roaring Twenties
Hollywood Hobbies

1940
The Fighting 69th
Torrid Zone
Tear Gas Squad

1941
The Bride Came C.O.D.
City for Conquest
The Strawberry Blonde

1942
Captains of the Clouds
Yankee Doodle Dandy

1943
Johnny Come Lately
Show-Business at War

1945
Blood on the Sun

1946
13 Rue Madeleine

1948
The Time of Your Life

1949
White Heat

1950
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
The West Point Story

1951
Come Fill the Cup
Starlift

1952
What Price Glory

1953
A Lion Is in the Streets

1955
Love Me or Leave Me
Mister Roberts
Run for Cover
The Seven Little Foys

1956
These Wilder Years
Tribute to a Bad Man

1957
Man of a Thousand Faces
Short Cut to Hell

1958
Never Steal Anything Small

1959
Shake Hands with the Devil

1960
The Gallant Hours

1961
One, Two, Three

1968
Arizona Bushwhackers

1973
The World at War

1975
Brother Can You Spare a Dime

1976
Kristina Talking Pictures

1981
Ragtime

1982
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

1983
Zelig

1984
Terrible Joe Moran

2003
Complicated Women

2008
Meurtres à l'Empire State Building

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