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He was honest with his depictions of cagneys career as well as factual about cagneys personal life. Current issue special issues all issues manage subscription subscribe. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. John mc cabe s participation in the writing of james cagney s autobiography, the many years of friendship that followed, and an intense period. And, indeed, he has written a searching chronicle of this major actors life and career. This joint biography, as well as his separate books on each man, has been. A previous biography of bogart made the comment that cagney and robinson made lives outside their roles.
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