Word: cagney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film opens with a frenetic scene from The Roaring Twenties (1939), depicting a nattily dressed James Cagney as the leader of a mob of despairing stockbrokers futilely trying to save their investments...
...swastika painted on its tail, floating peacefully between the skyscrapers of Manhattan; Los Angeles, dawdling about growing, still a transposed prairie town set down in the middle of an antic oasis. There are also, intercut with fact, many of the best and balmiest fictions of the time: James Cagney, ever brash and streetwise, pushing mugs around; King Kong poking his head up through the el tracks...
...edge of sanity, for instance, he kept running through his head a "private screening" of 13 Rue Madeleine, an interminable Jimmy Cagney spy movie. In his cell, he sang Don't Fence Me In, Mairzy Doats and the Marines' Hymn, and in every way used his dream of returning to America to keep his spirits up. There is an astonishing passage in the book describing how he began walking from one end of his cell to the other, counting each measured footstep as he imagined himself walk ing out of prison into the suburbs of Moscow, crossing into...
Carney, 56, is as astonished as everyone else by the award. "It was the greatest moment of my life," he acknowledges. Harry was his first leading role in a feature movie-and of course he was nobody's first choice. It was written for another Irishman, James Cagney, who turned it down. Twentieth Century-Fox then suggested Laurence Olivier, even Frank Sinatra, before Director Paul Mazursky called on Art. Even Carney was not sure he wanted it. "I liked Josh Greenfeld's script, but face it, I felt insecure playing a 72-year-old man." But his wife...
...This week he starts work on Sam Peckinpah's Killer Elite, then he may appear in Francis Ford Coppola's The Apocalypse. It is only three years since he appeared in the sleeper Brian's Song and then exploded with the intensity of a young Jimmy Cagney to become a star in The Godfather. Now, after Cinderella Liberty, The Gambler, Funny Lady and the upcoming sci-fi drama Rollerball, he is one of the five top box office draws in the country...