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American ragtime movie10/16/2023 ![]() with the proviso that James Cagney and Joan Blondell be able to reprise their stage roles in the movie. Al Jolson saw him in the play and bought the movie rights, before selling them to Warner Bros. He secured several other roles, receiving good notices, before landing the lead in the 1929 play Penny Arcade. He spent several years in vaudeville as a dancer and comedian, until he got his first major acting part in 1925. In his first professional acting performance in 1919, Cagney was costumed as a woman when he danced in the chorus line of the revue Every Sailor. Orson Welles described him as "maybe the greatest actor who ever appeared in front of a camera". ![]() In 1999 the American Film Institute ranked him eighth on its list of greatest male stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood. 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). Cagney 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 won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances. ![]() On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. ( / ˈ k æ ɡ n i/ July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986) was an American actor, dancer and film director. ![]()
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