James Cagney Personal Book Collection Hardcover Dictionary & Motion Picture Almanac (2)

Presented is a pair of hardcover books including Webster’s 7th New Collegiate Dictionary and 1946-47 International Motion Picture Almanac. The highlight is that they originated from the James Cagney collection with stuck on nameplates with his name in the interior.

On stage and in film, Cagney was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. He is remembered for playing multifaceted tough guys in films such as The Public Enemy (1931), Taxi! (1932), Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), The Roaring Twenties (1939), City for Conquest (1940) and White Heat (1949), finding himself typecast or limited by this reputation earlier in his career. He was able to negotiate dancing opportunities in his films and ended up winning the Academy Award for his role in the musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him eighth among its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Orson Welles described Cagney as “maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera”.

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James Cagney Personal Book Collection