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James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
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James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939). This marked the end of Cagney’s cycle of gangster films for Warner Bros. He wanted to diversify his roles and would not play a gangster again until his acclaimed portrayal in White Heat, ten years later.
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An amusing fan video for your pleasure entitled “Pervy Cagney.”
Statistics revealed that by 1935, James Cagney had entered the top ten players list in box-office popularity. “That kind of thing I found essentially meaningless. I never gave it a thought. Whatever was going on in my Hollywood life I regarded as completely transitory. I once saw a very well known playwright in a restaurant walking from table to table shaking hands and receiving congratulations. I thought it was very sad. He needed that support, all the praise and adulation. He needed it badly, sought it avidly. He savored every bit of that temporary eminence instead of just bucking down and furthering his job. That, I think, is what I did. Just going along, doing my job. Nothing more than that.” (In addition to the adulation of fans, Cagney would also earn $147,167 in 1935 — a huge sum for the time.)
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