Movies
James Cagney, who died last Sunday, caught the public’s eye in 1930 with gangster roles in his first two films, “Sinners’ Holiday” and “Doorway to Hell,” but he became a star with his 1931 portrayal of a cocky, dame-slapping hoodlum in “The Public Enemy.”
April 6, 1986
James Cagney could do it all.
July 5, 1992
Obituaries
James Cagney, whose feisty, finger-jabbing portrayals of the big city tough guy helped create a new breed of Hollywood superstar—but won his only Oscar playing a song-and-dance man—died Easter Sunday at the farmhouse he loved in upstate New York.
March 31, 1986
Entertainment & Arts
James Cagney is remembered best for playing tough-talking gangsters in Warner Bros. movies in the 1930s and ’40s, which, according to “Cagney,” a loving and cartoonish small-scale bio-musical playing at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, is exactly how he didn’t want to be remembered.
Oct. 21, 2017
When I was a little girl, I grew up in a little town in Puerto Rico.
April 12, 1986
James Cagney, whose feisty, finger-jabbing portrayals of the big city tough guy helped create a new breed of Hollywood superstar--but won his only Oscar playing a song-and-dance man--died Easter Sunday at the farmhouse he loved in upstate New York.
As a major fan of the splendid James Cagney, I am happy to report new DVD and Blu-ray releases of a variety of his films.
April 23, 2015
California
William Cagney, former movie producer and brother of film legend James Cagney, died Sunday in Newport Beach of a heart attack, a family member said.
Jan. 4, 1988
Books
CAGNEY A Biography By John McCabe Alfred A. Knopf: 439 pp., $27.50
Jan. 4, 1998
Business
After a former Uber employee wrote a blog post about sexual harassment at the ride-hailing company, it took four months — and a raft of other problems — for investors to oust then-Chief Executive Travis Kalanick in June.
Sept. 12, 2017