Oral history interview with James Cagney, 1958.

Biographical Note

Actor

Scope and Contents

Early life and years in vaudeville in New York City; Hollywood film career from 1930, including making of "Boy Meets Girl," "Public Enemy," "Mr. Roberts," "Man of a Thousand Faces"; ideas about characterization

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Cagney, James, 1899-1986--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion picture actors and actresses--Interviews.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Vaudeville--United States.