One of Hollywood's pre-eminent male stars of all time (eclipsed, perhaps, only by "King" Clark Gable and arguably by Gary Cooper or Spencer Tracy), and the cinema's quintessential "tough guy", James Cagney was also an accomplished--if rather stiff--hoofer and easily played light comedy. Ending three decades on the screen...See full bio »
2008Warner at War
(TV documentary)
(performer: "The Yankee Doodle Boy" - uncredited, "You're a Grand Old Flag" - uncredited, "Over There" - uncredited)
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Vaudeville
(1997)
(performer: "Mary's a Grand Old Name" - uncredited)
1991Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros.
(TV documentary)
(performer: "Shanghai Lil" - uncredited, "The Yankee Doodle Boy" - uncredited, "You're a Grand Old Flag" - uncredited)
1985That's Dancing!
(documentary)
(performer: "Give My Regards to Broadway")
1955The Seven Little Foys
(performer: "Mary's a Grand Old Name" - uncredited, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" - uncredited)
1950The West Point Story
(performer: "It's Raining Sundrops" - uncredited, "By the Kissing Rock" - uncredited, "The Military Polka" - uncredited, "B'klyn" - uncredited, "It Could Only Happen in Brooklyn" - uncredited)
1948The Time of Your Life
(performer: "Let the Lower Lights Be Burning" 1871 - uncredited / "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" 1912 - uncredited)
1943The Voice That Thrilled the World
(documentary short)
(performer: "The Yankee Doodle Boy" - uncredited, "You're a Grand Old Flag" - uncredited)
1942Yankee Doodle Dandy
(performer: "The Yankee Doodle Boy" 1904 - uncredited, "Give My Regards to Broadway" 1904 - uncredited, "Over There" 1917 - uncredited, "You're a Grand Old Flag" 1906 - uncredited, "Mary's a Grand Old Name" 1906 - uncredited, "Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway" 1906 - uncredited, "Off the Record" 1937 - uncredited, "Harrigan" 1908 - uncredited, "I Was Born in Virginia" 1906 - uncredited)
(1927) Stage: Appeared (as "Eddie") in "Women Go On Forever" on Broadway. Written by Daniel Nathan Rubin. Directed by / produced in association with John Cromwell. Forrest Theatre: 7 Sep 1927-Dec 1927 (closing date unknown/117 performances). Cast: Mary Boland, Willard Foster (as "Dr...
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5 Biographical Movies
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8 Print Biographies
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16 Articles
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2 Magazine Cover Photos
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Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.
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Trivia:
In his autobiography, he mentions that while in the chorus of the musical "Pitter Patter", he earned $55 a week, of which he sent $40 a week home to his mother. As his salary increased, so did the amount he sent back home. In
The Public Enemy, he earned $400 a week, sending over $300 back home. Until his mother passed, he never kept more than 50% of his earnings.
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Trademark:
Famous for his gangster roles he played in the 1930s and 1940s (which made his only Oscar win as the musical composer/dancer/actor George M.Cohan most ironic).
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