Cagney
Autor John McCabeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 1999
Cagney
came
from
a
poor
Irish-American
New
York
family
but
once
he
found
his
metier
as
an
actor,
it
was
not
long
before
he
was
recognized
as
a
brilliantly
energetic
and
powerful
phenomenon.
After
the
tremendous
impact
of
Public
Enemy
-
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
Yankee
Doodle
Dandy
(winning
the
1942
Oscar
for
best
actor)
and
Love
Me
or
Leave
Me.
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
One,
Two,
Three,
only
to
return
twenty
years
later
for
Ragtime.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780786705801
ISBN-10: 0786705809
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
ISBN-10: 0786705809
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 154 x 227 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.71 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press
Notă biografică
John
McCabewas
a
professional
actor
from
the
age
of
seven,
first
appearing
with
various
stock
companies
in
his
native
Detroit.
He
blended
the
acting
profession
with
his
schooling
for
decades,
finally
receiving
a
doctorate
from
the
Shakespeare
Institute,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
England,
in
1954.
While
at
Stratford
he
met
Stan
Laurel
and
Oliver
Hardy,
who
were
then
touring
British
music
halls.
From
this
encounter
came
a
deep
friendship
with
Laurel
and
the
authorized
biography,
Mr.
"Laurel
and
Mr.
Hardy
(1962),
which
firmly
established
John
McCabe
as
the
world
authority
on
this
great
comedy
team.
Other
show
business
biographies
followed,
and
in
1973
he
was
selected
to
ghostwrite
James
Cagney's
autobiography,
"Cagney
by
Cagney.
In addition to his many years as a professional actor, John McCabe has taught acting at Detroit's Wayne State University, the City College of New York, Interlochen Arts Academy, and New York University, where, as professor of dramatic art, he headed the Educational Theater Department. Now retired from teaching, he lives on Mackinac Island, Michigan, where he has returned to acting and where he lecture-performs a Shakespeare play each summer.
In addition to his many years as a professional actor, John McCabe has taught acting at Detroit's Wayne State University, the City College of New York, Interlochen Arts Academy, and New York University, where, as professor of dramatic art, he headed the Educational Theater Department. Now retired from teaching, he lives on Mackinac Island, Michigan, where he has returned to acting and where he lecture-performs a Shakespeare play each summer.