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One of Hollywood's preeminent male stars of all time, James Cagney was also an accomplished dancer and easily played light comedy. James Francis Cagney was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, to Carolyn (Nelson) and James Francis Cagney, Sr., who was a bartender and amateur boxer. Cagney was of Norwegian (from his maternal grandfather) and Irish descent. Ending three decades on the screen, he retired to his farm in Stanfordville, New York (some 77 miles/124 km. north of his New York City birthplace), after starring in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961). He emerged from retirement to star in the 1981 screen adaptation of E.L. Doctorow's novel "Ragtime" (Ragtime (1981)), in which he was reunited with his frequent co-star of the 1930s, Pat O'Brien, and which was his last theatrical film and O'Brien's as well). Cagney's final performance came in the title role of the made-for-TV movie Terrible Joe Moran (1984), in which he played opposite Art Carney.- Actor
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Sam Parker was born on 30 October 1906 in Sparta, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for The Fowl Ball Player (1940). He was married to Blanche Rae Parker. He died on 30 March 1986 in Eustis, Florida, USA.- Actor
Beau Anderson was born on 11 April 1922 in Beaumont, Texas, USA. He was an actor. He died on 30 March 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Art Director
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Herman A. Blumenthal was born on 21 May 1916 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for Cleopatra (1963), Hello, Dolly! (1969) and Westworld (1973). He died on 30 March 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Yasuko Endô was born on 21 October 1968 in Fukagawa, Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for Sukeban deka (1985), Lady Georgie (1983) and The Nurse Story 3 (1994). She died on 30 March 1986 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Poet John Anthony Ciardi was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 24, 1916. He graduated from Tufts University (then called Tufts College) in 1938 and got his M.A. from the University of Michigan the next year. His first volume of poetry, "Homeward to America", was published in 1940, to critical acclaim. He was an English instructor at the University of Kansas City from 1940-42, when he left to join the US Army Air Force during World War II. After the war's end he returned to his teaching job, but in 1946 he moved back to Boston and taught at Harvard University. He joined the faculty of Rutgers University in New Jersey in 1953, becoming a Professor of English there in 1956.
In addition to his volumes of poetry he also wrote poems and verse for children, in addition to translating "The Inferno" of Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy". In 1956 he became poetry editor of The Saturday Review. He left his position at Rutgers in 1961 to pursue his writing career full time.
Be died of a heart attack in Edison, New Jersey, on March 30, 1986.